I always enjoy our Cafe member James Condino's posts, and I also enjoy many of the podcasts on Fretboard Journal, so it's good to see that he is this week's guest on 'Luthier on Luthier' with Michael...
I always enjoy our Cafe member James Condino's posts, and I also enjoy many of the podcasts on Fretboard Journal, so it's good to see that he is this week's guest on 'Luthier on Luthier' with Michael...
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I've been playing a bunch more gypsy tunes lately and really focusing on the chord voicings. Here's a breakdown for Swing 42 I wrote up with a bunch of fun variations for the chord...
Hi everyone. Thanks for all the inquiry and feedback. Like someone said in the thread, were always up for talking and we encourage people to write or call us directly. Happy to explain about how we...
Hard to think of him as an 80 year old, but there was an 80th birthday celebration gig for him in Dublin last night.
I am absolutely certain that many of us would not be on this site today, or...
I posted many pictures in older threads that would cover some of the talk above. I'll post some of those and later Imay find some other pics relevant here.
Some may be shocked, but some of us are more disappointed than shocked.
Big corporations or not, most instrument manufacturers have historically (at least in recent history) been supportive of one...
I kind of like it too. It shows that the spruce is well quartered, and it's referred to as "silk". Guitar people have prized it for years, but mandolin people, not so much. Why? Because the wood used...
From what I have found it was Lester Flatt who played the first F5 in bluegrass in the Kentucky Pardners. If you are of the belief that the Monroe Bros. sound was the foundation for the sound of the...
One has to understand how bending wood works.
First when you bend wood, the outside layer wants to stretch and the inner compress. You must count with strengths of your wood when bending. In most...
Was excited to come across this thread. When I saw the Griffith A5 at Tut's home back in the mid-1970s, I took a bunch measurements and photos but couldn't get a good tracing of the peghead because...
I don't know how many bluegrassers told me that I would have a, "great mandolin that cuts like a hoss ... if I had just made it look more like a Gibson F5" when they checked out the black Sorensen...
Hi all, forgive me if this was posted elsewhere- I searched and didn't see it, but man, the title of the threat says it all.
Solo mandolin shred Tom Petty cover.
Marty, that's awesome. ...
Here's my little Christmas mp3 for 2021. I used my Ellis F5 and my Randy Lucas slope dread. Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all my fellow Mandolin Cafe buddies!
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It's a bitter sweet Christmas this year for me.
"In the midst of winter, I found there was within me an invincible summer."
Here's to a much better 2022.
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It was a pleasure working with John and I am thrilled with this instrument. I'll attempt to post a video of it here. Here goes....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnrXEZ12wLA
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/21/5395
Not sure if there was supposed to be more to the post above, but here's the tune, a pipe march, on cittern. The second one piece, Fr. J.A. Rankin, is a Cape Breton fiddle tune. If the links don't...
Great stuff Guys! Here's some Freddie King I did this morn'n. There's little bit of SRV in there, because that's where I learned it:grin:.:mandosmiley:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ic-CFGkKjWo
And one more... the classic St. James Infirmary
https://youtu.be/_uf5uqfmUco
Kevin, where I’m living now, internet is spotty, plus I’m lazy … I’ve been immersed in the blues recently and hopefully will find time to post new stuff; in the meantime here are a few I put up in...
MP3 of the Day
From the Mandolin Cafe MP3 Library.
Song title: Mando Coloured Glasses
By: Mando Coloured Glasses by The Bills from the album Trail of Tales
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https://youtu.be/U3In9TUsdbo
I corrected a typo and made a few revisions to measures 1 and 21 in the attached. I'm still hoping to do a cheap home recording of this . . . eventually if not soon. If you make the attempt, I'm...
The reason there's a point in the florida transition started with the oval mandolins. It was to blend the FB to the soundhole and was carried over to the F5.