I have one like that ... From 2013 I think. It is my back-up for when I leave my Collings mando home but could easily be my everyday mando. I like it so much that I had stainless steel frets put on...
I have one like that ... From 2013 I think. It is my back-up for when I leave my Collings mando home but could easily be my everyday mando. I like it so much that I had stainless steel frets put on...
Greg:
I have a dozen or more YouTube videos where I play solo mandolin on a variety of blues standards. Enter my name in YouTube - Sam Lyman - and the videos will magically appear :). There is...
Great jamming with Mandobart and others in Pasco this weekend! There were not that many people at Sacajawea but that did not stop us from having a great time.
By way of street-cred, I am a veteran of many, many Dead shows and have a personal library of over 1,000 shows. If you want a super-good version of Big River listen to 8/13/1975 from The Great...
May the 4 winds blow you safely home David!
And one more... the classic St. James Infirmary
https://youtu.be/_uf5uqfmUco
Here's another one: Watson Blues!
https://youtu.be/qVOl0S60cHc
Thanks for the tech help Mark!
Blues Grateful Dead style... Dupree's Diamond Blues
https://youtu.be/wfJU4xbHuNM
I hope you love the Kelley and that it is everything you want and need from an instrument!
A couple of cardinal rules to consider here:
1) People generally advocate on behalf of the mandolins they own or want to own when responding to such requests for feedback.
2) No two mandolins...
I generally recommend the Kentucky but it looks like you found something you like so congrats! When my Collings mandolin stays home I play a Kentucky KM-500. It has beautiful woods and sounds...
No, your Colorado Case Cover for the old Calton case will not fit a new one... I found that out:).
I played Steve's Kentucky KM 956 that is in the classifieds over the weekend in Spokane at a jam and it is a fine mandolin. I think a person could get a lot out of mileage out of this instrument and...
That's great Jesse! I cannot imagine any mandolin sounding better! Congrats on the fine picking and nice mando.
I was out on The Trail of the Coeur D'Alene's bike trail in North Idaho today for a 60 mile bike ride and brought my new Ranger Travel Mandolin made by Bruce and Mary Weber of Montana Lutherie.
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I just took delivery of a new Ranger Travel Mandolin from Bruce and Mary Weber a couple of days ago. There is not much in the way of sound or video files on these so I thought I would post a link to...
Doc:
I tried some of Pava's instruments at Wintergrass in 2017. They were all excellent.
Sorry to point out the obvious (or near obvious) but when you solicit info about a maker in this way...
Nobody, I would leave the mountain in its natural state and ride my fat bike there with a mandolin slung over my shoulder and have a picnic and play old-time music once I get to the summit.
See you there!
Aw Steve... thanks for the kind words. Yes - the varnished Collings instruments are a notch or two above the MTs and MFs ... add to that 13 years of near-daily playing and you can end up with a real...
Chris: I have 10 or so blues tunes recorded on my YouTube channel and can share chord and lyric charts if you want...
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My experience has been similar. In more than 25 years of playing I have mostly played mandolins made by Gibson (20s snakeheads), RL Givens and Collings with a short stint on a Heiden. I have had a...
My list is simple:
The 3 mandolins I already own - a Collings MT2V, a Mid-Mo MO-W made by my friend Mike D, and Kentucky Km-140 that I bought for cheap from a friend when his store closed.
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I would check with Greg Boyd's shop in Missoula, MT.
My first thought is that no adjustable truss rods were used by Bob until 1992.