I once bought a cheap old German piano (over 100 y.o) for $100.00, it looked nice, but it was only good for playing honky tonk, as it was going out of tune very quickly. I got myself a tuning key and...
I once bought a cheap old German piano (over 100 y.o) for $100.00, it looked nice, but it was only good for playing honky tonk, as it was going out of tune very quickly. I got myself a tuning key and...
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21" and ball-end is what I have, too. I use single guitar strings 52w-36w-24w-14p, GDAE. As multidon said, only the E strings are plain.
Awesome - I played one once and thought they were high quality! congrats!
I'll just leave this link here in case you might want to look at it.
http://designofaclassicalguitar.com/home
This looks like a great deal to me!
Pretty cool:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYH083c8dEw
If it is not an amplified instrument the easiest and most economical thing would be to go with a set of D'Addario J78s phospho-bronze and you can get them on line from various place sometimes as low...
I bought a set on ebay. Can't remember the brand, sorry.
The tuning for a mandocello is CGDA.
http://youtu.be/OjlIAq17aVc
Have you seen this video? You might want to use the Savannah as a test bed to try this out...
I used my tablesaw for fret slots for a long time (that was the one thing I used it for), and I used the LMI blade with a set of inexpensive stabilizers, like the Freud ones. I think mine are around...
I got the Stewmac fret slotting blade, though it was rather expensive (overpriced, I'd say). It was cutting .020" slots when I got it, and that was too narrow for my fret wire, so I added a little...
kkmm in 1913 there were no trussrods.
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I don't spend a lot of time waiting for necks to move from truss rod adjustments, I usually just go ahead and tighten them and see what happens. If there is not enough movement before it starts to...
They are now, at least those labeled "Autoharp" and "Chromaharp." There are small 'harp builders in the US, such as Orthey, Timbre Line, Fladmark, Evoharps (Evo Bluestein), etc. Link to page of...
3/16" = 4.625mm therefore larger than the ones you were looking at. I can't get to my OS Appalachian but I believe i bought a harpsichord tuning wrench from a piano supply place many moons ago. In...
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I don't speak German but I still found this video to be interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZdtqGbTe5U