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I'm pretty sure that the A5 Jr. will have an elevated fretboard. There are a few other discussions of this on the forum, and most seem to be, at least. The integrated fretboard extension seem to be...

Congratulations!

(also... pics or it didn't happen) :cool:

Right, but the problem is the relative humidity in the environment that it's going to be stored, not the humidity outside.

But as soon as you start heating that room, that relative humidity is...

Two things about this have always seemed fairly evident. First is that men frequently express affection for, dote on, and even caress objects that they possess such as instruments and vehicles, and...

I was going to say something fairly similar. I also have been playing guitar for years, mostly acoustic, and have a pretty good sense of what a good guitar sounds like, and can pick up nuances in...

As I continue to cogitate on it. There was also a gap in the market for domestic instruments with Gibson's acquisition of Flatiron. You basically had a choice of a Gibson product, an import, or a...

I wonder if Jerry's death in '95 pushed interest in his side projects in the subsequent years. There was also the "acoustic boom" after the MTV Unplugged performances of Clapton and Nirvana, I...

I think there probably was an uptick in demand. As a bit of a deadhead in my early to mid 20s at the time, it seemed like lots of people around me were discovering the Jerry and Dawg collaborations...

In order of how much time I've probably spent listening to them:

Jeff Austin
Chris Thile
David Grisman
Phoffman (Greensky)
Drew Emmitt (Leftover Salmon)
John Skehan (Railroad Earth)
Jarrod...

Mandolin sounds real good. But, I'm only a few years into mandolin playing, and maybe I'm missing something, so I might be crucified for this... but the playing sounds really sloppy and and inexact,...

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Exhibit A of flying pinkyitis (and one of the most unflattering angles of myself I've yet seen). Keep your eye on the pinky:


https://youtu.be/Z8xE84PiXQ0

Just so you know, you're responding to a three year old post, which is itself a response to a post from 2013.

Pretty nice "freebie." Though, the couple comments about Oliver letting him "play it for free," sounds like maybe he's not going to be keeping it? Also, the references to "Loar specs," but it also...

It'll pull parallel (more or less) with the neck away from the headstock. Some people use a coin for leverage and as a finger saver. They can be tight, if they're crooked it might be tighter. But,...

To be fair to pedantic stuffy academics, of which I am one, there are a range of perspectives on this. For some time now, particularly since the infamous 1984 MoMA "Primitivism" exhibit, the...

You say it with such confidence. But, in fact the distinctions between art and craft have been hotly debated for quite sometime, and largely upheld along fracture lines in society that conveniently...

Any input from those with fuller figured heads? Many "one-size fits all" hats are too small for my noggin.

Playing around with Blair Atholl (still no smiling):

https://youtu.be/Z8xE84PiXQ0

Just banging away on it isn't the ticket to good tone. But playing too quiet isn't either. The middle of the dynamic range allowing you to actually play with suitable dynamics is probably the sweet...

To say nothing of the fact that, had Gene Autry used the clip-free model, you'd have likely never seen it anyway.

I get your point, they're certainly not "classy." But suggesting that Clapton and Autry were less concerned with it kind of bypasses the fact that it's a tool that they didn't have available to them...

"Clickbait" has more to do with vague headlines that you have to click on to get content of little or no real substance than it does with giving you malware or viruses. It's designed to generate...

Don't really know what I'm doing on tenor banjo, just trying some tunes on it that I've been playing on mandolin, not transposing. This is in standard, not Irish tuning, and the strings are pretty...

Which is why no one has ever said it.

Raising action a bit on some instruments can have a positive effect on tone and volume.

Setting action so it "does not buzz anywhere" is a bit problematic,...