The first time I heard the song was from Jim Ringer at a little coffeehouse here in Kalamazoo. It was pretty late in the show and it was simply bone...
I'm with you on that. My Boss TU-3 tuner is a great help. (Plus onstage, it mutes while you tune.) I've used it while recording, leaving my mandolin...
Oh, absotively posilutely. Mishearing and misspellings are pretty common, and should be expected in music from the folk/oral tradition. Your example...
Right. Good point. The banjo nature has been obliterated by replacing the head this way. It's an electric mandolin, regardless of its original state,...
I nearly always use a Shure 58 - same difference as a 57, just with a screen, typically used for vocals. That's because they're always around and for...
I just got done watching "Almost Famous" for the first time in eons - well, decades - and there is a fair amount of mandolin in the incidental music,...
Give it to someone else to tune, preferably someone with perfect pitch. That's the best, easiest, most reliable method. I do this every chance I get....
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