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I attended a Mandolin World News event at San Francisco's Great American Music Hall around 1980, which featured Tiny Moore, Jethro Burns, the DGQ and maybe a coupla other acts (foggy recollection)....

I've owned a Hathway Mandocello for some years now, which I bought in person from Paul at his home workshop. I recall trying a couple of his OMs while I was there, and was hugely impressed. His...

Harkening back to the days when giant mandolins roamed the earth, a new mandocello, built to try out some ideas before the start of the mandolin quartet project. This one has a carved European spruce...

For those who can receive it (and on the BBC Sounds app thereafter) on Saturday February 26th, 13.00 - 15.00, two hours of Chris Thile on the Inside Music show:

"Mandolinist Chris Thile travels...

The more I listen the more I like it, which is usually the case with new PB albums. I just takes me a couple of listens to process all the nuances and layers. Man, they’re so good…

Well you may have seen me attempt to play on a Goldtone mandocello, here is the real deal.

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For all you followers of Girouard mandolins and their excellent instruments. I am sharing this photo. I have a quartet on order not only of the same style but the exact same woods. By "exact" I...

Thank you Claudia. When our orchestra played at Bruchsal Zupffest a few years ago, I saw almost no mandocellos--all guitars in the orchestras. What instrument do you have? My best is a 1912 Gibson...

These are pieces I wrote for CMSA Open Mic, 2020 and 2021, a mandocello solo and two quartets. They are a small part of the wealth of mandocello music I gathered from much more experienced composers...

I was just cruising around Tom Crandall's inventory page and found this one-of-a-kind beauty from around 1918. I don't recall seeing any mention in my old catalogs (but will take another look) and I...

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Facebook from Ricky Skaggs.

Seeing reports that Tony Rice passed away yesterday.

June 8, 1951 - December 25, 2020

Thus far the only link I can find is on Facebook.

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I nearly broke out in tears watching this video of Sierra last night, everything about it just screams perfection to me..


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFoiRc9wjRQ

Every video...

A year ago, the orchestra I play with in Athens Greece (MandolinARTE) performed its last concert before the pandemic (ahhhh good times).

Anyway, we played a beautiful piece of music from the...

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transcribed from her video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_F6dep-uCE
and pdf for this short example:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r8X0tv9hXwN9LE2OG3IHnSggdAV13eCG/view?usp=sharing

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Here's a little composition for octave mandolin that I just recorded with my Weber Bitterroot F4.

Hope you like it!


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Another installment of my solo project is this Caprice for Santa Cecilia. As much as I like the sound of the installed pickup that I had been blending with the microphone, I decided the pure acoustic...

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The most beautiful mandolin I have ever seen was delivered today ! Port Orford top and beautiful flame maple back ! Workmanship second to none ! Sound really projects crystal clear notes across the...

The old Forum software has been reinstalled. But I wasn't done meddling just yet. I saw some things in the other version and decided they had their place here so changes have occurred in the...

Attached are 2 pdf files (Part 1 and Part 2) of the Bellenghi (Giuseppe Bellenghi, Bologna 1847-Florence Oct 17, 1902) mandocello method from 1896. I scanned these at the Library of Congress using...

original for liuto, but also versions for octave and mandocello.
the liuto and OM versions are mostly 1st position.
the MC version will require shifting from 1st and 4th

the second half (measure...

Finally, here for your enjoyment, is the Bass Clef Version of the Bickford Mandocello Method. I'd still say it's in draft phase, but hey, it's here and hopefully there aren't too many errors or...