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  1. Blackgrass: Swamp Dogg Announces New Album

    https://www.americanbluesscene.com/2024/03/swamp-dogg-announces-new-album-blackgrass-from-west-virginia-to-125th-st/

    "Not a lot of people talk about the true origins of bluegrass music, but it...
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    Re: Mike M on different m’cello

    gah! honey, I shrunk Mike Marshall! that's a beastly machine with amazing tone. pete, thanks for posting it!
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    Mike M on different m’cello

    With the number of views, I suspect this hasn’t been posted on the Café forum before, with Mike Marshall playing a Berg 10 string mandocello:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZWwrL-2uS8

    BTW I no...
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    Re: Keeping up with the Fiddlers

    Emphatic YES!!

    Plus, it took some time to learn what "holding the pick loosely" is supposed to feel like, allowing it to angle down on the upstrokes while still not, ya know, flying across the...
  5. Thread: Aged-tone?

    by HoGo
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    Re: Aged-tone?

    Wood will always gets to EMC which depends on RH of air around it. Thermally processed wood has slightly lower EMC and has generally better dimensional stability which was the main argument for doing...
  6. Thread: Aged-tone?

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    Re: Aged-tone?

    That’s sound advice, I haven’t had an opportunity to play a Red Diamond. But still, I’d be more likely to lay the success of one at the feet of Dan himself; that is, to Macrostie’s lutherie skills...
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    Ladder in B-flat Major

    This is one of my warm up exercises, recorded during hybrid-style-folksongs sessions in March 6, 2020.

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    Toomas Rannu
    Flat-backed mandolin, crafted by Viljar Kuusk in 2008 (Tallinn,...
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    Mrs Jamieson's Favourite

    This is a lovely Scottish slow air composed by Charles Grant, a 19th Century fiddler and composer from Morayshire.

    My version is on octave, mandolin and guitar and based on an arrangement got from...
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    Re: Thoughts on keys.

    Continuing the open ended 'kind of random' theme:

    Often capo's are used (in Trad Irish at least) to get a certain voicing. Sometimes accompaniment is done with two guitars, one with a capo, the...
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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: Nashville Chord changes

    Despite the title, I believe his real issue is with a cumbersome software as he explains above. Obviously the original post is rather confusing, he explains his real issue later.

    Good explanation...
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    Re: Nashville Chord changes

    After reading both posts, I'm not quite sure what you're asking!

    If it's "Nashville Numbering" system, a single number by itself means that's the chord that is played for the entire measure. The...
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    Re: playing late and drinking

    Individual capacity for alcohol varies and so do the effects. So it's not a one-size-fits all kind of thing. I spent some time as a bartender when I was in college, and my experience was that your...
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    Re: Songs about moonshining

    Um, it was mentioned in the first post by the OP.
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    Re: Songs about moonshining

    Copper Kettle

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGlt4W4AXRU
  16. Mandolinist wins Celtic Connections 2024 Young musician prize

    Calum McIlroy, the winner of BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2024, performs G Iomain na Gamhna for crowds in Glasgow’s


    https://youtu.be/JFTqiVEjK-Q?feature=shared

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  17. Chris Thile & Billy Strings Saturday Morning Sessions

    My apologies if someone has already mentioned this on the board somewhere but I wanted to post a link as I just discovered it last night. Super excited to see this one. For those of you who have...
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    Re: Bluegrass blues instrumentals?

    Carter's Blues
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1z0smNmyE8M
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    DataNick on Bluegrasstoday

    I just wanted to give a shout out for DataNick who has this on Bluegrasstoday:

    https://bluegrasstoday.com/california-report-san-diego-mandolinist-b-k-nick-nicholson/

    I miss his quality posts...
  20. Re: Convince me of the value of strict DUDU picking?

    Not much is “strictly” DUDUDU in alternate picking style; the OP has still not made clear what he means about “strict”. I use alternate picking a great deal of the time. Meaning down strokes on the...
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    Re: Beato Interviews Bela!

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    Re: Hawaiian mandolin

    That mandolin might have been built by Knutsen.

    https://www.harpguitars.net/knutsen/mandolins.htm
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    Beato Interviews Bela!

    Just saw a fantastic interview on YouTube last night - Rick Beato with Bela Fleck. What an amazing show... so much great information that would be of interest to any/every musician. Can't think of...
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    Hawaiian mandolin

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  25. Re: Convince me of the value of strict DUDU picking?

    You're not talking about education of beginner mandolinists though?
    -that would be where you may have limited resources and want to maximize the number of students who can reach a certain level (in...
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