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    Re: recently discovered Loar K5 ?

    Here is a Bayard 26 inch based on the 24 Loar K5, really nice tone on this
    I'll admit 26 inches scares me a little

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    Re: Franks' Mandolin Kitchen

    Gee Frank,
    now I feel like my woman done left me, my friends don't talk to me, my dog won't even let me pet him, lost my job, and spent my last handful of change on a bottle of cheap bourbon I...
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    Re: Mandocello as an octave?

    I know Matt Flinner has a 24-25 inch scale octave, which is about the same as a Mandocello. I imagine tone would be good, it may be quieter than as a mandocello.
    Maybe 15 years ago octave mandolins...
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    recently discovered Loar K5 ?

    I am already thinking of the atrocities I would commit to get my hands on that Loar

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    Re: Franks' Mandolin Kitchen

    Don't kid yourself Frank, you are that cool!
    As proven in this video
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    Re: Birdland Breakdown

    I really like this groovy version from Wintergrass 2024, played at human speed!

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  7. Re: How do YOU play the C section of Jerusalem Ridge?

    I am bringing my index finger to the 5th fret of the E string and then the middle finger on the 7th of the A ( so making a double stop), go back and forth between the two strings
    then walk up from...
  8. Re: Feeling Tone Wolf FM-F200DF Mandolin Review

    Doesn't sound bad, I think the problem with most Pac Rim that I have encountered has not been with the build, its generally the wood material and the finish, and its usually the finish that "limits"...
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    Re: Thoughts on keys.

    if you look at very early Gregorian Chant notation there is no key indication, we've come full circle in the 20th century when Arnold Schoenberg proposed the 12 tone system, there are 12 tones - do...
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    Re: Once Upon a Stormy Morning

    Thanks for the support guys, I have to give a shout out to Frankdolin and Jozef Schiener, who took the time when asked to listen to some of the early mixes of this project and gave very wise audio...
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    Once Upon a Stormy Morning

    Releasing my new album on Band Camp, all instrumental Mandolin ensemble music with an emphasis on Mandocello.

    Once Upon a Stormy Morning

    Here is the opening track via You tube

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    Re: What's your new fiddle tune?

    Blakes March - what a fun tune, I am hopelessly obsessed

    thanks to Flinner and Walsh for bringing that back around
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    nice version

    John Reischman, Butch Baldasarri and Robin Bullock recorded it on thier "Travellers" album, John also teaches it in his Peghead Nation melodic tunes course.

    One of the great...
  14. Re: A customer playing a baroque mandolin I built

    coolest thing I've seen in a while, Hats off
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    Re: Thoughts on tremolo

    more slow tremolo out of Verona, I really enjoyed this.

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    Re: Italian Mandolin music being forgotten ???

    Buon compleanno Luigi

    Strangely I have recently taken an interest in Italian mandolin music, oddly the Irish and Italians were sworn enemies on the streets of 1930s Utica NY as my Father would...
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    Re: Thoughts on tremolo

    Listening to other Italian players, I would say the Carmelo Sciplino style is more of a regional folk style than even a classical form.

    My impression is in tremolo, the interval between down...
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    Re: Thoughts on tremolo

    I came upon this version of an Italian tune, I must admit I really enjoyed the mandolin style, where I find the tremolo technique and result to be very different from that of "American" mandolin in...
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    Re: playing late and drinking

    it is possible you are more relaxed about it and so it sounds better, and I 've known people who can be stumbling drunk and then land a dart in the bullseye from across the room (I'm not one of...
  20. Re: Mike Marshall & Darol Anger show on 2/9/24

    "every household should have a mandocello" - I thought that was common knowledge ? no ?
    at least that's what I told my wife when I acquired the second mandocello

    Always enjoy these two creating...
  21. Re: Domenico Scarlatti mandolin compositions?

    I did enjoy your versions

    "six of Scarlatti's sonatas written for melody instrument and basso rather than for keyboard -- a recent commercial edition considers that all six were intended by the...
  22. Re: Domenico Scarlatti mandolin compositions?

    Right but its only a theory.
    If a specific instrument is not noted for most of the compositions (assumed harpsichord here), then he just wrote it for melody and bass, with the intention that any...
  23. Domenico Scarlatti mandolin compositions?

    I found this you tube suggesting D Scarlatti may have written specifically for violin or even possibly mandolin.
    While I have my doubt its not that unreasonable of a notion.

    I don't know when...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    really nice John! If that's the place you live, it is beautiful. Sounds like your luthier skills are shining here!
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    Re: Franks' Mandolin Kitchen

    nice - between you and me I will take old Hank over the Chet Atkins Nashville sound any day of the week.

    Got to love the tone on that Northfield!
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