1975 my big brother Steve put 15 year old me in his 68 VW bug and we drove from NJ down to Williamsburg Bluegrass Festival. What a trip. What an experience. Big buzz was the young mandolin kid who...
1975 my big brother Steve put 15 year old me in his 68 VW bug and we drove from NJ down to Williamsburg Bluegrass Festival. What a trip. What an experience. Big buzz was the young mandolin kid who...
I looked around for this on the forum, and didn't see it - so wanted to share. Nicely edited home "concert" by Goat Rodeo on NPR's Tiny Desk Concerts). The music is (of course) amazing, but if you're...
A customer/friend had her mandolin stolen from her house a couple of years ago, an Old Wave she'd worn the finish off the back of the neck playing for 20 years. Made her another that she liked as...
Instrumental take on Hank Williams' Mansion on the Hill. Tuning on the tenor is CGDA
https://youtu.be/WJ098MaZstE
This is a wonderful read, by Walter Carter: How to Open a Vintage Guitar Store in Seven Easy Steps
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I bought mandolin insurance. It didn't help. I got one anyway.
Mike organized this with his ArtistWorks students. He wrote out parts and recorded guide tracks for us and then we all recorded our parts. Another student put the video all together. It was a fun...
Yeah, but don't leave it alone with any of your other instruments, particularly during the winter months.
Hi everyone,
I've been reading the forum from more than a year, when the mandolin bug bite me.
I've been playing guitar for more than 20 years but I wanted to try other string instruments, and...
This is what happens during social isolation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sYYgPGmx1M
Wow!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdBYwITh87M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0iFPAUd9wM
I've often wondered if a microwave minute was different than a treadmill minute. R/
#PlayOn: Colorado Symphony Horns – Don't Stand So Close to Me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMEn4vB8ZMo
No mandolin content, but, goodness, I needed this!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYlK7UUZfgE&feature=youtu.be
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYlK7UUZfgE&feature=youtu.be
Man this is so good...
Enjoy!
Dem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4OWAyDMK64
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In1WXGEDIX8
Hey folks!
Here is a cool arpeggio exercise I enjoy doing to warm up. I have the transcription available for free at pluckinstrings.com.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlqcszxHLKY
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Hilarious!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx3ygQtMRKU
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Nice, but maybe a lightly glued plug over the bolt would be a bit better, my taste anyway.
One of my projects over the next year or so is building a mandolin quartet, maybe even a couple. I am not sure what is going to happen to them once they are built, but we will see what happens. I...
Nice. Keep 'em coming!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GtncsFR1Yg
Enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK4F6sGmaL8
Did you notice that the uilleann pipes player in the video had a banjo leaning next to him, and an accordion on top of the piano? Betcha he's got a bodhran and a set of spoons stashed somewhere --...