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    Re: My prim tamburitza arrived

    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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    Re: mando tuned ukes?

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    Sometimes I do wonder if anyone is following this thread...
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    Re: Home Amp for 5 String

    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...
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    Re: Home Amp for 5 String

    I recall someone here is indeed enjoying the Yamaha THR, I think the 5 version. I’m sure you would enjoy it fine.
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    Re: Home Amp for 5 String

    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...
  6. One need not have any super-fancy instrument to have bouzouki FUN

    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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    Re: NEMD! Eastwood Mandocaster content

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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...
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    Re: Boat on A River by Styx

    http://www.mandolincafe.com/tab/boatontheriver.txt
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    Re: Boat on A River by Styx

    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...
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    Re: Apollonio Bell 'zouk

    Cool instrument. Let us hear it when you get it.
    Bill
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    Re: Buying a bouzouki in Ireland - advice

    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...
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    Re: Irish bouzouki or OM tuned to CFAD?

    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...
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    I'm very lucky

    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...
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    APC 308 Octave Mandolin review. BUDGET OMs

    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...
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    Re: Pickup question

    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. ...
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    Re: Harmony to Octave Mandolin to Mandocello

    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
  17. Re: Who makes an affordable full custom 5-string electric mandoli

    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...
  18. Re: Who makes an affordable full custom 5-string electric mandoli

    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...
  19. Re: Who makes an affordable full custom 5-string electric mandoli

    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...
  20. Re: Who makes an affordable full custom 5-string electric mandoli

    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...
  21. Thread: Tiny's amp?

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    Re: Tiny's amp?

    Tiny would sound great through any amp...
    Hell, even Peaveys... ;)
  22. Thread: But but but...

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    But but but...

    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...
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    Re: Electrics Where to begin.

    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...
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    Re: Post your rig!

    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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    Re: Post your rig!

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