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  1. Sous le ciel de Paris -- two tenor guitars + mandocello

    This French chanson from 1951 (also known as "Under Paris Skies") is this week's tune in the Song-A-Week social group. As I have recorded it on tenor guitar, it may be of interest here as well. ...
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    Re: Mowry Octave Mandolins

    Here's a clip... next one will include some chords and the lower ranges...

    https://youtu.be/Rbc4z_IB9bg

    https://youtu.be/Rbc4z_IB9bg
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    Collings Tenor Guitar

    Hi All,

    I just got my Collings all mahogany tenor guitar back from the Collings repair shop, where they treated the guitar and me like royalty. No financial interest or ties here, just a very...
  4. Thread: New build pics

    by kypes
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    New build pics

    Here are some pics from a recent build that I finished for a really cool project out here on Vancouver Island. About 50 different artists made pieces from the same walnut tree.
  5. A reel on my new Herb Taylor tenor guitar!

    Here's a great Finbarr Dwyer reel played on the new Herb Taylor tenor guitar. Herb strung it up with flat wound strings but I haven't decided if they're quite my cup of tea or not yet, may swap them...
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    A Kiss To Build A Dream On

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_JwnkNyhIg

    Messin with Satchmo
  7. Thread: Some Shiek

    by dcav
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    Some Shiek

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roV__-C7EY8

    Experimenting with setup and pick selection with my new/old Gretsch TG. I'm off my mark in my playing, but it's all good right? I dropped the action,...
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    Re: American Orchestra

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRWALmsmdTg

    Just got her in and strung up. Has serial no. 1938 engraved into top of headstock, so I guess it's a 1934? I've got a link out on a Gretsch forum too,...
  9. Thread: Georgia Bo Bo

    by dcav
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    Georgia Bo Bo

    Another one I picked up from Eddy Davis on his tenor banjo, from Louis Armstrongs' hot five way back when. Finger style on a 5O's Gibson TG 150. I can try to chart it out if anyone is interested, but...
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    Autumn Leaves for Fox

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1C2ohgAiEg

    Hey Fox, I haven't done this one in quite awhile, so I got my real book out. It's pretty close. Many ways to interpret this one. A lot of these 3 note...
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    Dean Town - Vulfpeck on mandolin!

    So, it really doesn't fit the rock category here, but I don't see a place for funk! I learned Joe Dart's bass part for the wicked funky tune, Dean Town by Vulfpeck. Let me know what you guys think!
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    Re: Tune: It Had to be You in the key of G

    Not to argue with the great D. Stiernberg, but this is how I play it. I use a lot of bar chords. The 2nd part of the B section the G/B7 and G/Bb07/Am/Daug are 1/2 measure each. I'll have to try it...
  13. Re: Tune: It Had to be You in the key of G

    Hi Nick!
    Try G6/G6/E7/E7/A7/A7/A7/A7
    Am7/D7-D#dim/Em/Em
    A7/A7/D7/Daug
    Repeat first line, then C6/Cm7/G6-B7/Em/Am7/D7/G6
    best, donnie
  14. Thread: Boomer Bust?

    by Bob A
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    Re: Boomer Bust?

    As an old man with lots of stuff, I feel the need to chime in.

    I have an inordinate stash of mandolins, guitars, books, firearms, and experiences, which I've accumulated over the decades; the...
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    Re: Boomer Bust?

    Aside from all that, I'm wondering if the younger generation is simply tired of looking at too much junk. It's true that antique dealers here in New England are disappearing rapidly. It's also true...
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    A Very Cool Fiddle Back (NMC)

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    Solomon Conn's fiddle was carried with him throughout his Civil War career. He scratched into the figured maple back a record of the places he traveled, fought and played during the war.
    ...
  17. Si Bheag Si Mhor (guitar and acoustic bass)

    Sorry, no CBOMs on this, but I thought after my last post of a Niel Gow tune, people mind like this new recording. I do do this with my mandolin orchestra, but this is just me playing a Brook...
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    Re: Never Going Back Again, again

    Here it is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiP5Wp7EwUI
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    Re: Me latest creation...

    Small luthier businesses generally highly ethical businesses and think about the woods they are using in their instruments. Being an amateur luthier, we as musicians should endorse home-grown...
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    Re: Hate tuning your mando?

    I never knew you had to tune these things. Mine was in tune when I bought it in 1993. Is there a video lesson on tuning?
  21. Thread: 25" Tenors

    by bea
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    Re: 25" Tenors

    GDAE on 25" scale is entirely possible. A while ago i showed two instruments - an SG conversion with standard Gibson scale tuned that way for a friend and a 5 string archtop tuned CGDAE (i'll show an...
  22. Thread: Honeysuckle

    by dcav
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    Honeysuckle

    Trying to get some different ideas under my fingers.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-A5mFZhm-Y

    dc
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    Green Dolphin Street

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBQJmyWdmOs

    I've been listening to my favorite pianist Bill Evans playing his awesome arrangements on this song. I want to play like Bill, but it will take me a...
  24. Wonderful article by Greg Cahill in Acoustic Guitar Magazine

    There is a really wonderful article by Greg Cahill in the current (February) issue of Acoustic Guitar Magazine

    http://acousticguitar.com/

    on Tenor Guitars ... featuring Lowell (Banana!)...
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    Some new emandos in process

    I haven't posted much on the cafe over the last couple months but wanted to make sure people knew that I was still around and actively building. I get a fair amount of emails asking if I'm still...
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