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    Re: Little Rock Getaway - Dave Peters

    That's gorgeous, thanks Jordan!
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    Re: Top 10 (12?) choro to learn

    In practice I always return to these exciting pieces:
    Gostosinho
    Bole Bole
    Murmurando
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    National innards

    a bit of a surprise to see what's beneath the cone of the modern National mandolin:

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  4. Re: Solace - A Mexican Serenade by Scott Joplin (1909)

    good choice of a Joplin piece, gorgeous at that tempo
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    Re: dust bunnies

    Tone balls! The first one I saw was about the size of a golf ball, and had that same compound structure. It reminded me of an image of a uranium atom from an old physics book. Awhile ago I heard a...
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    Re: May Jazz tune of the month: Body and Soul

    Having fallen behind on my clarinet practice and being caught unawares a few times, I recently hit on an exercise for visiting all the keys: I play Body and Soul a couple times in Db, then again in...
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    Re: Eddie Condon

    I believe Eddie Condon played mostly plectrum guitar and banjo: 26" scale, tuned CGBD. Mike's original impression of a very long scale in that first video seems right. In the suitcase quartet it's...
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    Re: Stainless steel refret

    There are two factors here, hardness and elasticity. Too much elasticity (call it "springback") is a problem unless the fret has the exact final shape before installation. Or it's held in place...
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    Re: The Whippoorwills

    Roy Lanham and the Wipporwills were the house band for hundreds of Smiley Burnette shows. The show was mostly cornpone, but the band would play hot jazz standards of the day (~1950-1953), cramming...
  10. Re: Best source for pre-slotted ebony mandolin fingerboards

    I persuaded LMI to slot guitar boards from both ends, to get 2 mandolin boards from each. You do have to check length, scale and # of frets carefully.
  11. Re: How Best To Remove Chrome from and Resonator Mandolin

    Metal bodies are soldered together before being polished and plated. The stripping process acts differently on the plating, the solder joints and the parent metal. It will be a holy mess by the...
  12. Re: How Best To Remove Chrome from and Resonator Mandolin

    A plating shop can reverse the polarity in the tank and eat away the plating, leaving a matte texture. For replating you must remove 100% of the old plating. One reason this is seldom done is that...
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    Re: 3D printing radius dishes?

    A CNC router shop up the road from me uses MDF and similar materials for large intricate profiling jobs. The surface finish with MDF is inferior, but they have a neat trick: after the final pass,...
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    Re: Any tenor banjo players - early jazz style

    I thought it was in the liner notes, but looking at them now I don't see it. I might have got it from the essay here: http://www.redhotjazz.com/elmer.html

    The notes by the LP producer Chris...
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    by John Morton
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    Re: ball ends

    I was in fact thinking there must be a big player in the market for Daddario to be distributing these. Ovation must be it.

    Yes, a resophonic. I made a lovely hook tailpiece and cover, but put...
  16. Re: Henrique Cazes cavaquinho. This is absolutely beautiful!

    Henrique Cazes narrates and participates in a video survey and travelogue about the cavaquinho. Four 1 hr. episodes. Brush up on your Portuguese, or at least skip between music segments....
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    Re: rubner tuners

    Here's my machinist take on this: it is true that 29/32" is odd, but in the world of English units there is a custom of designing with fractional dimensions, even 32nds if there is a critical...
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    Re: New Orleans String Bands

    String bands were mostly a rural phenomenon - 6 7/8 was a rare exception. The proto-jazz bands featured violin soloists, but they were squeezed out by louder instruments. Banjo, guitar and...
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    I'm just ready with 3 bodies to take to the plating shop, with some tailpieces, coverplates and handrests. I mustn't forget the minor pieces - there's a $150 minimum charge.
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  20. Thread: New !!!

    by John Morton
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    Re: New !!!

    mportinari, many thanks for showing us this work from Hamilton, and to Hamilton for making the sheet music available. I'm especially taken by the pieces where the Baroque roots are showing, but it's...
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    Re: Building a guilele

    Sure, it will work. Much depends on scale length, pitch and your choice of strings. I have made some steel strung guitars with 19" scale. (btw my stuff is all resophonic.) I tuned them to A, and...
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    Re: belt/disc sander - which grit?

    I have disc, belt and handheld sanders, but what gets the most use by far is my Ridgid oscillating belt/spindle sander. I have 50 grit belts and spindles, great for hogging a hard curly maple neck...
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    Paulinho Da Viola film

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwWCjaWRZfE
    Oh, to understand Portuguese! This is a marvelous 1hr. 25min. film centering on a major figure of choro. Fortunately it is sprinkled throughout with many...
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