I certainly get it, and am in the same boat - but you can do that because you know what notation is supposed to sound like, and have a handle on the overall genre and what the style is. :)
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I certainly get it, and am in the same boat - but you can do that because you know what notation is supposed to sound like, and have a handle on the overall genre and what the style is. :)
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My point isn't that you have to listen to a tune to play it. That's what notation is for. My point is that you have to listen if you want to play a particular genre of music and fit in with or sound...
Well, I didn’t get there on Sunday, but did visit the store yesterday to check out the SOL. 213176 although they have 1950s on the tag, this SOL is a 1930s with the MOP fret markers instead of the...
I took her home today, she's great! Thank you all for your help and input.
My guess is that it has been mentioned before in previous threads, but I would highly recommend reading Field Guide to the Irish Session, by Barry Foy. It is gently funny and filled with spot-on...
I was working in Florence some time back and was sitting in a park one morning playing the F-style mandolin I brought with me overseas.
A couple of Italian old boys came by to see what I was...
https://reverb.com/item/81599596-gibson-h-2-mandola-1920-sunburst
It's not an H-2. The more I look, the more I believe that it is most likely a 1910's plain style A mandolin, not a mandola.
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I have gone to a session where I couldn't play a single tune. I was taught to respectfully ask if I could record on my phone to learn the tunes and enjoy the show - Then go back home and learn those...
Yikes, Martin, how did I miss this? Too much work at the end of the semester.
That's a handy sized accordion.
Just enough basses to really add some chordal texture to your playing and not too...
That's pretty much as definitive as you can get. Thank you both for weighing in.
An original Keith Haring on a mandolin!
https://www.auctionzip.com/auction-lot/keith-haring-dapres_F044348959/
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Not sure where to put this but Crossrock has a new blog posting out with information that may be of use to those considering their fiberglass A model case.
That mandolin I think it's the only model in the strad-o-lin advertisements or catalog listings that the bridge sits in the middle of the F holes.
What happened to it is a matter for speculation but, as Gibson labels were invariably filled in in pencil and subject to fading, it appears that it’s been over-written - wrongly.
I just ran across this thread, and I must say it startled me ;) .Thanks for the kind words, Ted Heinonen! Anyway, Eric is right: I do have a number of the Reko/Tikkanen CD's in the closet. Al Reko...
Actually, Mike, SOLs are somewhat supernatural, and you have to be trained to see them at all. There are untold thousands of them out there, some of them with other names, built over half a...
Strad-O-Lins are just cool and fun mandolins shrouded in mystery. I’m very happy with mine and I also like how my late 30s Harmony Monterey mandolin sounds. Inexpensive instruments can still make...
Let me guess, the merged company will be called "Coffee"? :))
Well, SOLs are "handmade". And indeed it´s unfair to do a comparison of an SOL with f.ex. a Duff or Kimble A-5 (though I liked the tone of my SOL better than the one of an Ellis A-5 when I tried it...
Time to buy a top of the line SOL or bring in one of your handmade mandolins. Unless you already brought in a handmade mandolin previously and that's why (by comparison) the SOL seems thin. I could...
I bought a used Collings MT from Guitar Center of all places a decade ago thinking that I would sample it for the 45 day trial period and then return it if the experience wasn’t overwhelmingly...
I am an avid promoter of a certain style of Strad-O-Lin mandolins. They have the comma f-holes. The body is slightly smaller than the average A shaped Gibson mandolin and - as far as I know - it was...
I’ve never played or even seen a Stradolin. Would an enthusiast say that a good SOL sounds great…or that it sounds great for the money? I mean no offense to anyone or any mandolin.
I don't know if you ever listened to his podcast he did the last year or so of his life. If you haven't you should. It is priceless. It is near the bottom of his webpage at the link below.
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It's a common style F hole, I've had this one for twenty some years. I don't think it's refinished, I had two with the same finish.