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Of course Dan Crary, Mike Marshall, Chris Thile are exemplary musicians, and they can call whatever they do whatever they want.
So can anybody who just bought their first Morgan Monroe.

Tony Rice...

There is a difference, and it is well worth distinguishing, IMHO.

What Mark says is correct and valid, in that he's presenting the modes from a single pitch (C) as the tonal center, rather than showing how they are derived from the major scale. In both views, the...

Well, there is more than one way to skin an apple (for you vegetarians); but given the choice of progressing forward or progressing sideways- sometimes sideways works, but eventually you have to...

To get the most out of any book, concept, or idea:

• Start with ONE thing. Don't move on until you have really mastered the concept. That means that you don't have the book open- you've actually...

The OP states that Pettine style picks give a "superior tone". That is a perfectly valid opinion, in that it is merely an opinion; one shared by many folks coming from the classical mandolin world....

Thread here.

"The mandola (C string) sides is close to 15 3/4" and the mandolin (E string) side is close to 14 1/4".

When work is done on my house (maybe October) I should be able to start...

Mr. Monroe had a very long and varied career, so that anything you might say as being true in one era isn't necessarily true for every era (or ear!)

Simplistic? No. You will find a LOT of...