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It sounds like your instrument is being stereotyped. I started playing a lot of BG and gospel both in church and at jams, and lately have been on a quest to find other genres (folk, Americana,...

Mandolin Orange
This Side Of Jordan

Mandolin Orange
Haste Makes Waste

MaNdOlIn oRaNgE
tIdEs oF a tEaRdRoP

while lIsTeNInG to my mo pLaYlIsT

Agree that's a good place to start. If you like that one, you can work your way toward now (Blindfaller, Tides Of A Teardrop) where there's more mandolin, or go the other way (This Side Of Jordan,...

Their album "Such jubilee" is very good

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My wife says we really want $11,111.11 for it.!:))

I purchased this 2014 A.L. Smart beauty from Greg Boyd's House of Fine instruments a few weeks ago. It has an Engleman top and varnish finish. I'm still getting used to it, especially the shape as...

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A cafe member requested that I test my wood burning and staining skills for this custom armrest. A before stain and after.

That would be a style 15 (no prefixed 2-). The 2-15 has f-holes.

My wife and I recently lost our beloved 50-60 year old Redbud tree that has been in our yard since we bought our home many years ago... before we knew we had to take it down last winter, it lost some...

Jim,

I think you are asking about the guitar-bodied "Cali-mando" mandolin --

1. I did end up incorporating the built in armrest in the FX, VX, and Stratus builds. The response from players...

Forgive me sharing my non-mando-nerd side, but I've been making my way through Star Trek TNG on Netflix (for the second time) and stumbled on an Animal-House-esque mando moment...

Forgive me, but...

On my bench is a bunch of metal parts from my old Dr. Jekell CNC machine. The Mr. Hyde CNC machine will be emerging soon, after a little more dismantling and fabricating some more billet parts....

I've been working on the Doc Roberts mandolin tunes. Here is my Mandolin Rag:
https://soundcloud.com/scott-rucker-202243268/mandolin-rag

and my Honeymoon Stomp (although I'm not as happy with...

Single mandolins get lonely, they’re actually pack instruments, much happier in groups. Like beagles.:)

And they don’t howl.

Usually

My wife and I had a great time meeting Nick and his fellow musicians at the Temecula Valley Bluegrass Festival today. BK Nicholson and Desperado played some serious bluegrass! Nick can sing and he...

his tune is just so joyous, I knew I had to arrange it the minute I heard it. By the late Highland piper Gordon Duncan. I recently met a piper busking in Bath who says he is great friends with...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/an-island-you-have-to-see-to-believe/

I'm not sure anyone in the UK will be able to see this, but for any of my friends in the US you should watch this on Sunday night...

Hi friends! Thought I'd post a quick video of our quartet from Joe Val this year. It's an original tune written by our Fiddler/Band leader Rob Flax called "Alpaca Noir". Cheers!...

This thing is amazing.


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

Just for interest sake, I thought I would post some photos of a 1925 F5. As a general rule, Loar signed F5's and those immediately following have elegantly understated flame or figure in the wood. It...

This is my new-to-me 2009 Heiden Heritage model F5, one of 13 such mandolins in existence, each made with red spruce tops salvaged from a 100-year old building.

In the early '80s, when I was...

Getting ready to add some support to a couple bowl interiors, with some freshly planed strips of Carpathian spruce.

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Goodbye Liza Jane on a Kimble
http://youtu.be/5SzhhEJQlyk

Snowed in here in Boulder, perfect time to noodle around on Noto Swing.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx24KrP92cQ

I disagree with everyone here. Not because everyone or anyone is wrong, but because there is no one way to raise a kid to love music. You may think you know, but you don't know. Every kid is...