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The post I responded to said "And yet every town has a "Classic Rock" station burning you out to the tunes you burned out to all those yers ago." My only point is that "every [American] town"...

It's all the same Clear Channel station. I pull up the Wenatchee classic rock and it's playing the exact same section of the exact same song as the Yakima, Ellensberg and Kennewick stations.

It's real. My Hardanger viola is based on sympathetic resonance. The understrings vibrate because I bow the top strings.

Most music stores take advantage of this. Instruments sound better there...

Yes I know some cobblers. They've resoled my old boots a few times.

Not everyone who enjoys real, live, handmade by humans organic music is a grumpy old hipster. I see lots of folks of all ages...

I've replaced tuning machines on 7 instruments, mandolin family and guitars. IME the ONLY time I've had replacement machines "drop in" was when I replaced one set of Schaller's with the same model of...

Good to "see" you again! I've always enjoyed your sharing your knowledge and experience!

Thousands of recordings of acoustic stringed instruments have been done with mics, not pickups. Why won't a mic work for you?

The part I bolded above is what I call the false promise of technology. Things are introduced as labor saving, but it never works out that way. In the early to middle part of last century social...

I have two old (1930's) instruments - a Stahl banjolin and a Regal resonator. I used light strings - .008 or .009 E's based on good advice from this forum. I would advise the OP to use lighter...

When I hear a new (to me) song I'd like to learn, I'll search it on YouTube for a version I like best. Then I figure out the chord prgression after wathing/listen7my/playing along a few times. Then...

Just my opinion, but this has been my experience in applying mathematics, engineering concepts, plumbing, wiring, auto mechanics and music:

Memorizing steps, formulae, songs, etc. is fine, but...

My custom 10 string 26" scale mandocello covers the range of a mandocello and an OM , going from C to E (C-G-D-A-E).

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I also tuned my Eastman MDC805 like an OM once:

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IMO you can't completely separate music, or at least rhythm, from math. Also fret placement, string tension, intervals, harmonics, etc. are all derived mathematically.

Yes. I started on violin when I was 10, classically trained, and played in orchestra all through the end of high school.

I started learning bluegrass and fiddle tunes when I was 13, based on the...

I did my first speed neck the same way. The clear finish was flaking off the neck on my Morris hybrid F4. I used a pick to scrape the rest off, then used some 400 grit sandpaper to smooth it all...

Where are the mandolincafe folks? I'm usually roving the halls or hanging out in the WAMA suite.

AFAIK Eastman uses Pingwell (aka "Ping") tuning machines on all their instruments. I've changed out tuning machines on a number of guitars and mandolins. In most cases the replacements don't just...

Allen makes cast 10 string tailpieces. I have one on my 10 string mandola and 10 string mandocello.

Don't know if it will fit your bandolim.

I've installed K&K and JJB piezoelectric soundboard transducers in quite a few instruments, including violins, violas and f-hole mandolins.

There are some differences between installations in a...

I disagree with this. My opinion and experience is if you are playing for paying audiences then you have to be on time, be personable and play as well as you can. I play my best when I enjoy what...

I'm in the "happy to never play/hear Wagon Wheel again" camp. I think it's the Darius Rucker (ha spell check changed that to Radius - now that's funny stuff) effect. I'm also not playing along on...

The Tapastring Vintage jack is a 3.5 mm TRS. Some people call them 1/8", but then again we still describe gravitational acceleration in slugs here in the US....

Easy to buy or make a 3.5 mm TRS...

On the mandola I used a .018 for the higher octave G (plain). On the OM and mandocello I use a wound .023 or .024 for the high G.

A super simple way to do it is buy 2 sets of regular unison...

My OM, mandola and mandocello are all built by Tom Jessen. One of the many benefits of his instruments is the use of a zero fret, so the nut is just to guide the strings to the tuning machines.

I'll see you there Matt! I'll have the Kay bass, and either my Morris F4 hybrid or Cricket Fiddle F5 mandolin (going to the John Reischman intensive on Thursday).