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There are a couple of factors that affect tone that have little to do with strings. My wife has taught violin for nearly 40 years, and I'm a violin luthier, if you need some credibility, ha, ha....

I agree the way to sound absolutely monotonous is ududidu all
The time

I've already made tens of dollars this year at Old Wave Heavy Industries Mandolin Stamping facility , and its only April! I plan to retire soon to start making rotary telephones!

I have always used 11-40 on old Gibson oval hole mandolins (I've owned about 30 over last 50 years). However I've normally found the 1st and 2nd strings to have a thinner sound than I'd like.

I...

It’s normal to check the tuning each time you pick it up to play. Whether or how well it stays in tune varies from one instrument to another, varies with weather changes and with several other...

My two favs are

How is a blind javelin thrower and a banjo player alike?

Nether has to be very good to get your attention.

Cop pulls over this car for speeding and he starts to walk up he...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0xzfa8DcYk

Way back decades ago, I used to religiously attend an old time festival called Brandywine and Ola Belle played there just about every year esp in the beginning. She was a real character.

I am...

I wanted to share some thoughts after returning from Nashville Mandolin Camp last week...

1. Megan and Adam Chowning are not only fantastic players in their own right but incredibly welcoming and...

Why all the hating?

Je suis l'accordéon.

Mick

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1. The sooner you start, the happier you will be.

2. The more mando you buy, the longer it will be before you can retire.

3. Refer back to #1. Balance that out.

4. Quality Mando's may...

I declare you cured of MAS! You are a lucky man.

The bluegrass beat is usually quite subtle (compared to pop music/modern country, but especially compared to the obvious click of a metronome). By listening and again and again and playing along with...

The guy in the video is Luc Arbogast. Do a YouTube search and there's tons of stuff with him. He's quite amazing. I began listening to him a couple years ago after seeing one video like this.
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The value of a Stradivarius -- or a Lloyd Loar Gibson F-5, or a pre-war Martin D-45, or a sunburst Les Paul -- on the market, is not solely dependent on the instrument being a gazillion times better...

You can generalize a bit, though it's pretty rare to have enough choices in one room really see the trends!

All my own opinoins & your mileage will vary.. but here are a couple thoughts on the...

:disbelief: That has absolutely nothing to do with the topic heading "What breaks or solos have you learned note for note?"
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Exisiting recorded solos are the etudes of...

There have been a few "built threads" lately, and people seem to find them interesting, so I figured... what's one more?
I debated starting this because this will probably be a long term project...

I played bassoon in my high school band and the kid next to me, who played Euphonium, called my instrument "the belching bedpost".
We both went on to MSU for college--but I got the scholarship for...

Most overrated mandolin = your mandolin.
Most underrated mandolin = my mandolin.

or vice versa, depending on how much you love/hate your own mandolin/s.

Allow me if I may to temporarily derail this thread. Some of you may not know that OP Cary Fagan is a brilliant Canadian novelist and author of one of the finest book ever written about a mandolin...

I found this song last night and thought it was pretty funny. I haven't seen this one from Thile before.

Because there's not many folks that can play too many notes on the...

Here's one I finished up last month..finally got video uploaded..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAWPUr8rMmk

If you are considering this a "first" mandolin, meaning you expect to trade it or sell it and replace it later, it doesn't matter if you get f-holes or an oval hole. Once you start to play, find out...

Just to show how warped my sense of value is...
I once rented a 90lb jackhammer to get rid of a rock blocking the trench to run the power cables to my shop. I spent 8 hours operating that jackhammer...