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After almost 5 years inaction, I've started this project up again, this time on YouTube because it was so much easier to organize tracks into play lists and edit them. Plus there's more traffic on YT...

I just snagged Angelina's first album that's not too easy to find, An Traidisiun Beo with her father Peter and Martin Quinn. It's great!

Thanks for the detailed reply!

David I'm curious, do find that scale length makes a big difference with all those tunings and gauges?

I'm so glad to see people enjoying Vitti 'Na Crozza! At 14:39 is my friend Kathy Sherak singing a shortened version of the song. Besides being a great mandolin player with the Aurora Mandolin...

It's hard for me to hear the differences! They both sound great. A lot of how well an instrument sounds is the player, of course. Maybe that's what I'm hearing. Well done.

I don't think I've seen High Lonesome listed yet. Also, Spout Wings and Fly about Tommy Jarrell.

I've bought mandolin banjo bridges from Elderly. They are not repros, but they did a great job. And I'm another vote for Smakula.
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You are so right. I've just been yearning for a Clareen lately and it was on my mind when I was typing! You are so lucky to have had a lesson!

I agree with Shaun Garrity above, having also taken the tenor banjo journey recently and finally deciding that 19 frets works better. There's something about the longer scale that fits with the GDAE...

I used to buy comic books and candy from Rudy in San Francisco when I was a kid. His store was called Rudy's Book Nook. He was always behind the counter with his black oval hole Gibson, with staff...

I played this instrument at the Grass Valley Bluegrass Festival either last year or the year before. It was outstanding! One of the best mandolas I've played. To my ear mandolas can often sound buzzy...

I used to play my Larsen flat back for Italian tunes. I thought it worked great. However it sounded very different from an Italian style bowlback. It has a short scale and low action, which is great...

Never heard Mr. Monroe play it, but Mike Compton played a tune with John Heartford called Shove That Pig’s Foot Further in the Bed that had some similarities on the Down From the Mountain CD. I would...

I know Adam Tanner has put Allesi's on some of his vintage Gibsons and raves about them.

Wow thanks for posting. does anybody know where we can hear more of these guys?

The Armstrong twins had a bit more of a honky tonk feel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tqy0bb1_III&feature=share

Valbert, where did you find such a beautiful instrument? I don’t see the crack, it must be a hairline.

Thanks Ranald, your thread was just a little earlier this month! I should have been able find it with a search! Thanks again to all the respondents.

I don’t know if it’s still available anywhere, but he did an album when he was a teenager with Alan Munde on banjo called Poor Richard’s Almanac. The quality is funky but his picking (even back then)...

I imagine the appreciation of the value has cancelled out the difference between what you bought it for then vs. what it’s worth now 20 years later. If I’m making any sense.

The tone in the video is awesome! Way more rich and fuller than I expected.

One of the best analysis I’ve seen of the right hand that was very useful for me was Radim Zenkl’s mandolin primer video. I was trying to build up my speed. He breaks down the various techniques of...

David, growing up in New Orleans did you ever hear the 6 & 7/8 String Band or similar string jazz music that featured mandolin? They were a big influence on me.

But I thought it was recast with Michael Shannon?