Niles Hokkanen recommends mandolin left hand fingering for mandola but wisely says that this all depends on the size of your hands and that smaller hands may need a different approach. Below is an...
Niles Hokkanen recommends mandolin left hand fingering for mandola but wisely says that this all depends on the size of your hands and that smaller hands may need a different approach. Below is an...
Is it a Brescian mandolin?
Your "as received" photo gives me hope that this old Brambilla might be salvageable should my ship ever come in. This was dropped from a shelf in my grandfather's closet by his butterfingered heirs....
Perhaps there is no need for a new thread. Seek and ye shall find: Right Hand Technique on mandolino. So, unless there has been some revolutionary discovery or insight on this topic post this 2007...
I am interested in mandolino fingerstyle technique. As this is not related to the Chaconne, should I start another thread? Specifically, I would like to know if punteado play (wonderful term,...
I found a downloadable online copy of the Rosati method at the Bayerische StaatsBibliothek. Are there other sources for this online?
Could someone move this to the "Bowlbacks of Note" thread?
I am an amateur listener enjoying your music. This was terrific.
Jim B. said:
I wouldn't be too hasty to say that with concerts by deceased stars beginning to appear, for example ...
Sue, After a certain amount of postings on the forum at Concertina.net, I found my "rank" had been changed to "Chatty Concertinist"
In the "Bowlbacks of Note" thread, Jan. 7, 2014, posting #6216, Jim Garber mentions a Tartaglia:
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Speaking of Roman instruments... this is a Giulio Tartaglia model...
Why compromise? Get both --
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You may lose more friends than you knew you had ... but, heh, it's art.
In this order:
1. Ugo Orlandi
2. Me
3. Everybody else
Just for the sake of adding tenor lute pictures, here is my Vega:
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Here's video of a nicer model than the one above:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39PJKmYSrAg&t=7s
Having been far too deeply into Bach over the last weeks, I have to thank you for the lesson in counterpoint. Just downloaded the Bandcamp album and look forward a little warmth on a February...
Just to add a final note to the survey I posted above:
A response from my query to Dogal:
Dear Mr Barti,
our strings for Mandoloncello are developed on Italian mandoloncello round back with...
"Fecerunt" is also Latin: "They made it" ...
If you look at this thread dealing with Calace labels, there is a label like your own in posting #13. The pick guard in your posting is lovely!
I was proud of myself for having resisted the Maccafferi boatback discussed in another forum: My New Year's resolution was holding firm! Now? I intend to start a new thread: "Banjo Mandolins of...
You might start with this Youtube video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koD3gBLUEDQ
Re strings, for those with better info than I, note that according to this video, this is meant to have...
I love mandolins, and lions, and mandolions ...
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Where is this instrument being sold?
Thanks,
Joe Bartl
Banjo mandolin.
As a matter of personal taste, what I liked in this video, apart from the excellence of the musicianship, was actually hearing what sounded like an acoustic instrument in my room ... as opposed to an...
Perhaps a naive question, but it won't be my first or last:
I expect that the strings on the mandocello I recently acquired are D'Addario J78s: 74-48-34-22.
If I use my caliper to measure the...