Here is my most recent recording with the bisernica as well as a kantele I built from a kit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7AvHq3BgzM
Here is my most recent recording with the bisernica as well as a kantele I built from a kit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7AvHq3BgzM
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Sometimes I do wonder if anyone is following this thread...
Have you tried Polytone amps? They are solid state amps with a very clean tone and are great for jazz. Joe Pass and Sam Bush both use them. Here is a clip of my Polytone Mini Brute with my Ryder 5...
I recall someone here is indeed enjoying the Yamaha THR, I think the 5 version. I’m sure you would enjoy it fine.
Marshall make some nice small practice amps with a lot of features that I find useful.
For example, the MP3 jack will take any 3.5mm plug. And the headphone jack will pass everything. So you can...
Hi.
I've been playing folk music for well over a half century.
Growing up in a lower middle class, less than affluent
family, I had to scrimp & improvise to get the
instruments I was rabidly...
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I bought the Morgan Monroe variant. They all seem to be made in the same factory in Asia. Adjusting the pickups on the treble side closer to the E strings helps to balance out the sound...
http://www.mandolincafe.com/tab/boatontheriver.txt
Wow! forgot about this thread. I actually printed the tab from that link 4 years ago. The solo was crushing my spirit back then, but now I actually play along with the song.
I haven't posted on...
Cool instrument. Let us hear it when you get it.
Bill
I can't answer your specific questions, but my experiences in Ireland is that it's a remarkably hospitable country. You make friends, sip Guinness all day (without anyone ever getting drunk) and...
It's not so much the difference in tone, although the "zing" of bouzouki may cut through a group of fiddlers, whistlers, and concertina players in an Irish session a little better than a...
Just purchased a sobell mandola, ....you would not believe this instrument......It is so responsive, so warm and jangley....sounds almost like a dulcimer. This is an instrument that you can play...
Hey guys
A month ago I was in the process of choosing an Octave mandolin and someone suggested the Portuguese made APC but I couldn't find alot of info anywhere.
So now that I have gotten one of...
I know it's a different sound, but I went with the Eastwood mandocaster about 6 years ago. After setting it up, it plays well. I can plug it into any amp, as it's got regular magnetic pickups. ...
Here's a quick sample. Just have my phone with me today, so not the best sound, but you get the idea.
https://youtu.be/tRIaHpMsybo
I have an Eastwood electric tenor, so I know what you mean about trying to find out something reasonable in the next step up. I love my JL Smith 5-string so much, I'm considering having him build me...
By no means am I trying to be offensive here but more about educating people that may want to commission a build. From a builders perspective, this statement "I don't have all the details figured...
I have a 16" scale 4 string mandola from Ryan Ruikavina (http://www.rukavinaguitars.com/mandolas_ukes.html). That I absolutely love. He can build you a fine 5 string for under $1000. He winds his own...
Not an answer to your question, just a little intrusion from the builders perspective:
If you want to keep the cost low...
*Make up you mind. 4 or 5 string, no middle ground.
*Know what scale...
Tiny would sound great through any amp...
Hell, even Peaveys... ;)
I was surprised and delighted at the general affordability of electric mandolins, and thought wow this is a more frugal way to indulge a little MAS. Maybe burn off some craving.
Three amplifiers...
I don't own an Eastwood so factor that into my opinion but I think they are a fine electric mandolin. I do own a Morgan Monroe MMT-1E Tele shaped electric and I like it a lot. The pickups could use...
Brand new Rukavina 16" scale mandola into a 60's harmony 410A tube amp. I wanted the kind of tone that Tiny Moore and Johnny Gimble had on the old Bob Wills records, and this is pretty close.149496
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