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It's either a Dawg or a Golden Gate for me.

Dave H

Same here, although it does depend on the mandolin and the strings.

I have a mandolinetto with nylon mandolin strings and even the high strings are kind of docile.

Gratz!

Enjoy and congrats on the new mandola!

Jamie

Nice, Dolas are a good bit of fun, for sure different tones than a mandolin, enjoy!

I used the same tortoiseshell pick and have for years. I have a backup, a 2mm, and two 1mm jazz style ones for my wife’s guitar too but I always use the same one.
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When my pick sound changes it's almost always my picking attack that has changed.

A few minutes playing around and I can get the sound back.

D’Andrea Pro Plecs - 385 shape (rounded edge) are...

I’ve been using Madura Tortoiseshell 1mm and, sometimes, 2mm triangle picks. Got some of their 1mm Jazz style too. The triangles have nice rounded corners and I angle them for a bit more curve...

Correction: My new Blue Chip is actually a TAD60 3R (1.5) which does match up to the size and shape of the V-Pick Saga. I have been playing with it constantly and it feels and sounds great. Glides...

Love the Black Wegen M150! I did just receive my new Blue Chip TPR60 (1.5) with only the simple round bevel. It is the luxury version of the Golden Gate Large triangle X-Stiff. It is a Large...

I use the Apollo Reischman picks and love them. For me, the sharper the corners on a pick, the more pronounced the clicking sound. I've tried them all, many times over, and keep coming back to the...

Rounded corners just don't seem to work for the way I play and the groups I play in. Makes it more difficult to be heard. Both by me and others. At least in an acoustic setting. And that does not...

I have a Blue Chip TAD-3R with a simple round bevel (no speed bevel) on order. This one is the size of the CT 55, but it has rounded corners and is 1.5 thick rather than the CT’s 1.4.

The white Wegen. I’ve never played in a bar that had white floors

The D'Andrea picks I have tried I liked, but not as much as the Wegen.

You can tremolo with a pointy pick just fine, but you have to angle it more.

I use Wegen M200 on an oval soundhole mandolin but I also use TF140 when I play f hole one as far as sound is concerned.

User carlomazzaccara has some interesting options now in the Cafe classifieds. NFI.

First of all, Dick, where do you live? Bowlbacks do not have large fan clubs in North America and many of the finder makers are in Europe.

Actually there are quite a few makers of excellent...

Sorry to pass along this sad news.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-58881862

Nice music and mandolin playing, Toomas! Your flatback sounds very fine in your hands.
I miss one Estonian folk tune, though, the waltz Tõsine eesti labajalavalss.
Here's a recording by Anna Maria...

My friend Jim once asked me if I play any Estonian music. I reviewed what I have done in recent years and really, there was very little Estonian music there. So I took a thick book with Estonian folk...

You are correct, Allen. The Great Highland Bagpipe does indeed sound in Bb, though pipers always name the nine notes as G, A, B, C# D E, F# G and A - in other words A mixolydian; the three drones,...

Quote: "I love the pipes too. I almost bought a practice chanter to give it a try, but I took pity on my close neighbors".

My two daughters are both pipers, Dick, and as well as the full sets of...

There was the Corries' "combolin", built by Roy Williamson himself.

I didn't notice a lot of takeup by other players though.
https://youtu.be/MLFfNTjPMuk