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Today,
12:46pm
Simon DS
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Leather straps: flat or braided?
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I’d probably save the leather that you have, use it for something else. In Europe you can pick up really nice, sometimes strangely fancy 1970s and...
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11:04am
Simon DS
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Week #510 ~ Grey Owl
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Yes, really enjoyable, thanks CC.
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Yesterday,
2:58pm
Simon DS
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Forest Wedding
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.abc’s my favorite, thanks Robert. Here’s the pdf of Robert’s .abc file
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Yesterday,
1:01pm
Simon DS
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Joan’s Jig
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Thanks Frithjof, Gelsenbury and Ginny, I’m getting over it now. Lots of flashbacks though :)) A song would be cool, a funny one. ‘Why are they...
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Yesterday,
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Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
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Yesterday,
2:11am
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Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
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Great tune. Many thanks for the pdf Mr. Hall, hope to see you guys again soon :) the French version of the song are quite different. They in...
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Dec-05-2019,
1:17pm
Simon DS
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Some good practice
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Two Red Dirts, is this it Mark? Sounds cool. Would sound great on a curved fretboard slide mando.
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Dec-05-2019,
8:55am
Simon DS
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Advice on how to learn sheet music?
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Great piece of information, many thanks.
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Dec-05-2019,
8:48am
Simon DS
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Problem with the first version is that when Molly started playing her guitar I thought, ‘oh you guys, can you just quieten it down for the rest of...
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Dec-04-2019,
11:07pm
Simon DS
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Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence
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Fine playing Martin, lovely tone. Does anyone, by any chance know the name of the tune in French?
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Dec-04-2019,
4:16pm
Simon DS
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Forest Wedding
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-what, not even a pdf of The Forest Wedding? Oh that is a shame. I worked it out from Robert’s piece tonight, but tomorrow will I be able to remember...
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Dec-04-2019,
3:26pm
Simon DS
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Blues Mandolin Song Choices
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Dec-04-2019,
2:57pm
Simon DS
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Forest Wedding
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Nice one Robert, sounds Italian with the A major instead of A minor. Many thanks again.
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Dec-04-2019,
1:26pm
Simon DS
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Cowboy Songs
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Nice Martin, good to see them all in a collection.
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Dec-04-2019,
11:00am
Simon DS
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Joan’s Jig
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You guys are so lucky! At the beginning of the video clip there’s a view of the valley were I sit after my hike up the hill. Today I was sitting...
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Dec-04-2019,
10:42am
Simon DS
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Week #509 ~ Hut On Staffen Island
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Nice one Jim, really intimate, I like the tone on your mandolin.
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Dec-04-2019,
1:18am
Simon DS
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Week #510 ~ Grey Owl
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Ok so here’s something about the subtle differences in technique between the versions (that I think I can see). Talk about the magic another time. ...
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Dec-03-2019,
5:12pm
lflngpicker
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Best Armrest
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I am with Mark and those who love the McClung. Doug does a great job making a very comfortable AR and he matched the color and grain of my Collings...
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Dec-03-2019,
5:08pm
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Thanks for sharing your wonderful worshipful music!
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Dec-03-2019,
4:58pm
lflngpicker
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Gibson Ricky Skaggs Distressed Master Model - My New Mandolin
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Hello! Wow, that is a wonderful looking instrument and well worth waiting for, my friend. Good for you and I hope you have many happy years of...
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Dec-03-2019,
2:07pm
Simon DS
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The Wind on the Heath
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The Song-A-Week Social Group
On a Thuringia waldzither, Bertram! :)
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Dec-03-2019,
1:48pm
Simon DS
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How to play mandolin faster
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Dude you DO play fast! :)) I like the one about getting the fingers in the right spacing if possible 3-4 notes in advance. (mainly the shifting...
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Dec-03-2019,
12:47pm
Simon DS
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Week #510 ~ Grey Owl
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The Song-A-Week Social Group
Really nice Hendrik, and what sounds like a rise from the key of D to the IIm (Em)and then to the VIm (Bm, maybe) so cool. And played as a...
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Dec-03-2019,
7:59am
Simon DS
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Mandolin vs. Mandola?
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7 months now and still happy... I found the stretching exercises at the beginning were not painful, just a lot of hard work. There is a sort of...
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Dec-03-2019,
5:41am
Simon DS
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Mountains of Mourne
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The Song-A-Week Social Group
I listened to it, again... a few more times. I like it a lot. I like that beforehand there are a couple of indications that something is going to...
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Dec-02-2019,
2:40pm
Simon DS
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Women with Mandolins
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Not mandolins, but they are women. from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gittern
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Dec-02-2019,
2:10pm
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-that’s what Bill Monroe did.
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Dec-02-2019,
1:47pm
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Random Hippy Painting?
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I just found this painting on a guitar in my house. Personally I don’t like it. It makes the guitar look cheap. I’m thinking maybe I need to lock...
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Dec-02-2019,
12:17pm
Simon DS
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2019 Tune-A-Week Project
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Yep, inspirational triplets. Well lots of things really.
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Dec-02-2019,
9:31am
Simon DS
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Week #509 ~ Hut On Staffen Island
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Come on Gelsenbury, you play both those tunes very well... at the right speed! :)) Put the metronome on VERY, very, very, very, slow, make sure the...
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