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Yesterday,
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What "resonator?" The manufacturer just drilled a bunch of "screen holes" around the perimeter of a cheap mandolin. The "resonator" Blue Comets...
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Yesterday,
3:42pm
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Harmonicas & Mandolins
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Elderly used to sell a little wire rack called the Harp Handle; I bought one and have used it for over 20 years, and Dunlop still makes 'em. It's...
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Yesterday,
3:37pm
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Mandolin flagship song?
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As an ex-banjo player, you may play a bit of bluegrass (excluding Dueling Banjos, which only got popular in bluegrass when it got into the Top 40...
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Jan-14-2021,
7:03pm
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Harmonicas & Mandolins
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Speaking as a long time harmonica-ist: Marine Bands are good harps; they've been around for a century or so. Only drawback I've found is that the...
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Jan-13-2021,
12:13pm
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And just to add confusion and complexity (always my forte), I purchased a Weber Gallatin "sopranolin" that's tuned CGDA, an octave higher than a...
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Jan-12-2021,
9:11pm
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Fretboard Frets Question
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The spacing of the frets reflects the proper notes of the scale. If you put frets further apart, you get different notes. As John H says, you can...
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Jan-12-2021,
8:59pm
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"Washburn" was originally a brand name for the big Chicago music firm Lyon & Healy; it was George Lyon's middle name, and L & H used it to label...
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Jan-12-2021,
8:43pm
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Thanx to all who've posted; the Stelling's as ornate and full-voiced as I expected it would be. And yes, I did keep a ukulele -- I actually have a...
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Jan-11-2021,
10:34pm
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I put in a link to the pics on Bernunzio's website; it's marked "Sold" as of 3:30 p.m. today.
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Jan-11-2021,
9:33pm
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Forty-four years ago I purchased a Gibson F-5, Serial #A17518, from Stutzman's Guitar Center here in Rochester. My first (turned out to be my only)...
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Jan-10-2021,
1:00pm
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The Mandolin in America
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Exactly the response one would expect.
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Jan-10-2021,
12:57pm
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Pandemic Reading
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I got Dick Spottswood's The Blue Sky Boys for Christmas, and frankly, was disappointed. It turned out to be largely transcribed quotes from...
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Jan-09-2021,
7:49pm
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Having just turned 77 New Year's Eve, I find this thread's title ominous
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Jan-08-2021,
12:49pm
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The Mandolin in America
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Perhaps just another conspiracy by anti-Shmergel subversives (Gibson, Weber, Collings, Eastman et. al.) to cover up the existence of this nonpareil...
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Jan-07-2021,
7:22pm
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Mandolins with violin-style construction are nothing new...
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Scale length of 13.2" per the seller's description -- short!
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Jan-07-2021,
7:16pm
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Young Sam Bush A5 video
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I believe Peerce used to introduce himself as the "hippy" band's "social worker."
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Jan-04-2021,
12:49pm
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Old mandolins versus new a conclusion
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All my old mandolins are much more aged than my new ones. I find this consistent across all makes and models. On the other hand, the new ones are...
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Jan-04-2021,
12:35pm
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Speed of bluegrass... is it just me?
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Actually, the phrase came into general use from the title of a 1959 Esquire article by Alan Lomax. Bill Monroe -- and the Monroe Brothers before...
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Jan-04-2021,
12:16pm
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HELP with tuning
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Mandolin tuning (in 5ths) and guitar tuning (4ths and a 3rd) are quite different. Suggestion would be to get a tenor guitar, tuned in 5ths like a...
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Jan-02-2021,
9:20pm
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Random mandolin sightings
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Didn't intend to point out an "oopsie," just thought people might want to read the somewhat extended/opinionated discussion in the other thread. ...
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Jan-02-2021,
9:15pm
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Weird sound?
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So what's a "weird sound?" Is it a rattle, a buzz, a squeal, a ringing overtone? I'm not familiar with any component of a mandolin that could be...
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Jan-01-2021,
3:44pm
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Recent thread about Simpson and his bluegrass back-up band when they appeared on Stephen Colbert's show in November.
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Dec-31-2020,
11:28am
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New milestone
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Ah, Grasshopper, I see that you have reached a higher plateau...
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Dec-27-2020,
1:39pm
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Googling around, I found a bunch of music stores in Kayseri, many of which seem to stock acoustic guitars. I also notice that Eastman instruments...
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Dec-26-2020,
11:26pm
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RIP Tony Rice
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Still Inside: The Tony Rice Story; worth reading.
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Dec-26-2020,
8:46pm
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Thile/Aoife - Fairytale of New York from Wassail
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Apparently there is no "NYPD choir." Supposedly posed a problem making the original video. If you've an hour or so to spare, there's an...
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Dec-22-2020,
8:04pm
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And, of course, I stopped in at Bernunzio's this afternoon, to leave a rare Autoharp for repair, and look at this banjo that's tweaked my BAS (and,...
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Dec-22-2020,
2:36pm
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I may be type-cast as a shill for John's store, but he is having a fairly big end-of-year sale, with several Gibsons and Martins, the Gelas family of...
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Dec-22-2020,
12:10pm
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Or could it be "our team of crack-repair guys"?
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Dec-22-2020,
12:02pm
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Types of Mandolin Collections
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Hmmm... Never quite sure where "upstate NY" actually is, but I did have some contact with a brass quartet from Buffalo that did Civil-War-era music...
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