I saw this on facebook marketplace (no financial interest on my part). Built by the late John Wynn.
I saw this on facebook marketplace (no financial interest on my part). Built by the late John Wynn.
This is it! A monograph of Alessandro Morelli's "Speranze Perdute."
I cover his life and how his waltz became world famous. Part One reveals the life of a very active young man living in Rome and...
Since inception this site has attempted to serve as an oasis, a respite from the rest of the world, a place to relax, let down and get away from a lot of complicated news, hot button topics, and many...
Happens all the time, especially with the better known classical tunes. Youtube's automatic content matching system can't distinguish between you recording a public domain tune and you sampling a...
This week's unusual instrument is a circa 1910 Fairbanks Vega Whyte Laydie No. 2 Banjorine. Vega used the spelling "banjorine" while SS Stewart who is credited with developing the instrument spelled...
• The Yellow Haired Laddie [TAB]
• Pentland Hills [TAB]
• Donald MacPherson's Lament [TAB]
• The Cradle Song [TAB]
• Camasunary [TAB]
• Braigh Loch Iall [TAB]
• Ae Fond Kiss [TAB]
• My Love is...
Someone is going to post this. It might as well be me:
Would you like to play the guitar?
Carry money home in a jar
From a coffeehouse or a bar,
Or would you rather get a job?
A job is...
I just went through the process of choosing a standard or wide nut width on a new Collings MF model. Been playing a Kentucky KM1000 for ten years (older 1 1/16 nut width, which they may now make in 1...
My column this week in No Depression takes up the issue of the difficulty of making a living on the road for full time musicians. One of the examples I use is the great West Virginia mandolin player...
Dear Mandolin Friends,
Once again another year has gone by since I posted my last Winter's Tale tune book on this Forum. Here is Winter's Tale Book 4, with 22 tunes for mandolin trio plus guitar...
Inspired by Fretbear's offering,i had a look at several other F & S clips. I thought to myself ''I could listen to this all day'', then it occured to me,that in the past i have,many,many times over....
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Saw this posted on a Facebook group.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tdRZGCfhyRw
Hey fellow mandolin warriors. To put fears to rest. There are no intensions of ever moving any part of Weber to China. We will remain a domestically built family of instruments.
I wish I could say I'm surprised, but I'm not. As someone who was intimately involved with Weber for 12 years, and as one of the few people who made the move to Bend from Montana, I saw the writing...
I often wonder what would happen to our availability to our products, if our relations with China were to suddenly go sour.
As if anyone cares, the Korean script in the background of the photograph reads 'Cham Kay Ramyun' - from an instant noodle packet.
Just wanted to express my thanks directly to all the Cafe´members who make this site a daily "must-visit" for me, and to Scott T and the moderators for keeping it civil, informative, pleasantly...
Dear Mandolin Friends,
I put this little book together for my mandolin practice group. I hope you enjoy playing through it.
Best wishes for the holidays,
Evelyn
Mmmmm it reminds me of cinnamon rolls!
Music store employees ask him to play Stairway to Heaven.
He can chord a four-finger G Chop with only three.
Marty Stuart once told him his hair was too big.
His tremolo is written as 256th notes (microminihemidemisemiquavers)
His foot tapping is used to calibrate atomic clocks
He can tell a string is out of tune just by looking at it
He holds...
When he posts on MandolinCafe, there is always a link on the front page
NewsFetcher wishes it could give "thanks" to his posts
A locked thread never stops him from having the last post.