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The (oval) holy trinity of Webers! :grin: I have always wanted to try one of the F holed models.

Jim "hey Bob, whats the most important thing in telling musician jo"

Bob "timing"!

Hope she didn’t scratch the finish

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Lest we forget our lore, the above is guidance from The Cafe Authority on this marvelous instrument.

Blasphemy! Mentioning the glorious Shmergel Devastator in proximity to the word "blem." May your fingertips peel and every note you play fall flat!

Geez, the mandolins I bought all seem to have acoustic blemishes: fluffed notes, unreliable timing, slow tempos, haphazard chords...

Couldn't be my playing skills, could it? Those "blems" aren't...

I've had two or three of Will's two-points over the years. I am more of a pianist / guitar player than a mandolin player, but I have a hard time imagining anybody being able to do anything better at...

I've since gotten to know Duke quite well, partly because the Covid crisis has meant he has spent the last year here in North Thailand. He is a real gent with a huge basis of musical knowledge that...

Hi all!

Here's a song that I wrote about two years ago and used to perform with my now deceased band. I recorded it as a duet with my octave Weber Bitterroot and my Prucha F5.

Hope you enjoy...

Welcome to the club, A strings constantly drive me crazy.

Have you taken a look at this video? It was made for the Cafe's profile of Michael Daves who teaches Bluegrass Vocals for ArtistWorks, but it's a great guide to building a bluegrass mandolin solo.
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whew, I thought you were gonna say you hurt your mandolin for a minute....
Fingers will heal faster than a big ol ding in the top. :)

"More notes is better than fewer notes" - Excuse me if I'm reading you wrong, but that seems to be the gist of your thinking, and I couldn't disagree more. Following that logic, why learn any...

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Well, for me, this is just another reason not to own a cat.

Some of my early bands asked me to stop playing guitar. And I didn't even have any other instruments then.

let me start by saying,
1)the Bend boyz got it going on
2)i pledge i will not look at TMS website for the next 2 years
3)checks all the boxes, and then some
4)i was not expecting to do something...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DtyqMvvh7M

When I lived on a farm in Arkansas many years ago (and before we got full indoor plumbing), Montgomery Wards furnished our toilet paper. (Yes, I'm old.)

This brings to mind the fire we had in the...

If this quarantine thing lasts too much longer, David might be able to find a desperate mandolin player who will trade his F-5 for some of that TP stash.

Really, really nice. Once again, this one was a judgement call, as the video was not produced as a contribution to the 'live from home' genre, but just listen to that guitar!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JPPNZeMwLs

First French Polish session (quick cell phone shot) on the "Angel Step" quilted Sorensen VX --

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Steve

You are not going to believe this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qiija5dBBIw

I have trouble just getting my cat to stay ON the wall hanger.