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    Re: Strap for bowl back

    +1) Mariachi strap - I.e. hooks into the soundhole and cord goes under and behind , and a loop goes over your head.
    But sitting in a chair behind your music sheets on the stand seems more...
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    Re: Best way to learn Mandolin with ADHD

    Short attention span? play as long as it lasts, then come back later for a little longer ... tunes may only last 3 minutes any way.:whistling:
  3. Re: Tailpiece tines are bent upward: new tailpiece needed?

    I don't see them broken off, in that picture ... hardly bent...
    what's the problem with bending them down, carefully?

    100 years on the original Gibson tailpiece is fine ...
    Have you bent the...
  4. Re: Difference between "new" and old Eastman MD615

    Only answers from someone owning both would be a meaningful opinion -

    You must be very patient until that person sees this topic.

    :whistling:
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    Re: DI for K&K pickup?

    So another discussion about preamps that get called DI's

    To be accurate Direct Input [DI] converts a high level signal like an electric guitar to a microphone like signal
    to then feed the...
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    Re: What kind of hat do I need?

    My friend John likes wearing broad brimmed hats because his hearing, playing,
    is better wearing it and having the reflected sound directed into his ears ..

    Just some of the side effects of...
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    Re: Polishing/buffing picks

    I simply treat the plastic picks like fingernails and use the same tools on them...
    :popcorn:

    I love seeing how hard a powered buffing wheel can fling things across the room...
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    Re: "Mandolin Players In Ireland" Social Group

    BBC news TV had a Shane Macgowan song filled funeral for the late Pogues singer-songwriter...
    https://www.shanemacgowan.com/
  9. Re: D'Addario EFT74 strings discontinued - does anyone know why?

    I Expect it was a Business Decision ....
    I personally never got an hour out of those super thin core wire
    wound & Ground flat bronze A strings, before they broke...
  10. Re: What’s going on with low inventory of mandolins at shops?

    No shops for anything but craft brewed beer out here..

    :whistling:
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    Re: Help me spend $10k

    Car, insurance and gasoline cost has not absorbed that?

    :popcorn:
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    Re: Tremolo...Which player...

    a vote for Evan J Marshall...
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    Re: Good mic for...

    How about one of Rode's battery powered condenser mics , versatile for either with or without Phantom power..
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    Re: Case handle replacements?

    Many years ago , I got one from my local instrument repair guy .. 2 kinds; buckle on .. inline or at right angles to the handle.
    dependant on your case fittings .. his supplier had a paper printed...
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    Re: Anyone know of a suitable clip-on tuner?

    A=440 tuning fork gets the A string on pitch ..
    I press its base against my bridge to amplify its sound output, while vibrating,
    That's how its done...

    then use octaves & unison fretted notes...
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    Re: String squeak (guitar)

    Half round and flat wound strings are & have been a thing for decades... ~o)
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    Re: Ball-end String problem?

    John Pearse string wizard .. is already made https://www.elderly.com/products/john-pearse-string-wizard /

    :whistling:
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    Re: Time is running out

    My A4 had a pre centenary re fret in time for last year..
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    Re: Anyone know of a suitable clip-on tuner?

    Ones with a 1/4" input can take a Piezo clip, plug in .. then you clip it to the bridge, temporarily, while you tune.

    Banjo players use these , on their bridges.

    I used that to clip tuner...
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    Re: What's a good New Year's musical Resolution?

    Sell things I haven't used/played for a couple years? :confused:
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    Re: Four or five string vs. eight string

    in a Loud band solid body magnetic pickup Mandolin offers feedback suppression.
  22. Re: Anyone compared Fender 346 EXTRA HEAVY with Blue Chip CT55

    There was some pick exchanges, here, years ago - the source of my lower cost BC...

    the Fender ones lasted longer than the music stores in town. :popcorn:
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    Re: Northfield Nugget Tailpiece for Eastman?

    Hole spacing and pattern are not standardized , ... but a good luthier can plug holes and make new ones.

    Going from smaller to larger footprint of the mounting can be unseen, when finished....
    ...
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    Re: Any tips on installing loop-end strings?

    I've used pulling on the string, with my left hand to keep it on the hook,
    and the up and over the back of my hand as I pull tension on them winding the knob,
    as I slowly withdraw my hand as the...
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    Re: Vintage Gibson Playability

    I'm fine with my 2 Gibson A's, from '22.

    :whistling:

    just the opportunity to play with others has gone away...
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