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  1. Re: British guy here – how should I spend $10,000?

    You should certainly end up with an outstanding mandolin for that budget. Personally I would go for one of the top Northfields, where you are guaranteed great playability and tone, well within your...
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    Calum McIlroy, Hot shot Scottish mandolin

    If you have access to BBC iPlayer you can see a performance by Scottish mandolin hot-shot Calum McIlroy, playing his Taran in the BBC Scotland Young Musician of the Year competition 2023. His playing...
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    Re: Collings @ Auction (UK)

    I got the Eastman DG2, a match for my original Bacon Professional mandolin. The finish on the Eastman has not been assaulted like the Collins has been, but the ex-owner was evidently not bothered...
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    Re: Bizarre instrument. ID, please?

    This is a rare Frankendolin, assembled from the corpses of a cheap Italian mandolin and a cheap English banjo mandolin (probably a John Grey). Likely to be unique because that kind of corporeal...
  5. Re: Finnish loggers playing unidentified 12-string F-mandolin 192

    It reminds me of the lump-scroll Gibson f-style copies made in very small numbers by the Windsor banjo company of Birmingham, England. They were probably experimenting with diversifying into...
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    Re: NPD - Wegen TF 100

    I found the Wegen TF 100 to be the best commercially available picks for mandolin. I got hold of some special order thinner 0.85mm TFs which I like even better, but have never seen them advertised....
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    Re: The Girl I Left Behind Me

    Great old tune probably originating in England as a military band marching tune, with the words redolent of soldiers longing. As a band tune it is widely known as Brighton Camp. Many songs have been...
  8. Re: Looking for my old Weber Custom Elite F. Please help!

    Brett, you may be the person who did the excellent finish job on my Weber Elite A5 in what I believe Weber called the 'black ice' finish? The black top finish, combined with the outstanding birdseye...
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    Re: Irish Mandolin Recordings

    The daddy of all 'Irish' mandolin recordings must be Dave Swarbrick's 'Rags, Reels and Airs' LP of 1967, since reissued as a CD. Not all mandolin but plenty of great Irish mandolin stuff on there...
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    Re: Jubal Mandola F style

    William Smith points out this Jubal is not the same shape as a Gibson H5 mandola. Instead it looks like a scaled-up F5 shape. The few modern Gibson F-syle mandolas I have seen seem to follow this...
  11. Re: HELP! needed to sell my Eastman MD305 in the UK if Posting

    I always use Parcelforce (part of Royal Mail, I think) for posting instruments in the UK, the most reliable and least damage-prone in my experience. Like other UK shippers they won't provide full...
  12. Re: Has anybody heard of an English maker called Frederick Winslo

    Frederick Winslow was a mandoline player and teacher who lived in Swindon, south of England near London. Before forming the Serenaders Mandolin Orchestra he led a mandolin 'quartette' that promoted J...
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    Chris Thile on BBC Radio 3 February 26

    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...
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    Re: Taran Springwell

    Nice playing, as ever, Kevin. I see Rory is making another batch of Springwells right now after announcing a pause a few months ago. I guess there must have been an outcry!
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    Re: 10 Finnish folk songs

    Thanks Michael for posting this nice arrangement of the Finnish tune. I have started exploring your mandoisland website and your youtube videos - a varied and interesting selection of pieces, all...
  16. Thread: Schottische

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    Re: Schottische

    Scottische is the German for Scottish and is pronounced SHOTisher.
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    Re: Gibson A Jr. Natural

    Well I have a blond A Jr. The back and sides show evidence of refinishing but not the top, which is unusually, for an A Jr, tight and straight grained. The serial number is 86444.
  18. Re: Erik Satie - Gnossienne Number One on mandola and mandocello

    Very nice playing of a beautiful plangent tune. When is your Mel Bay 'Erik Satie for Mandolin' coming out?
  19. Re: new service, have your instrument "played in" over one weeken

    Whilst I am grateful to the poster for drawing public attention to this new service, which he terms 'playing in' but might be more accurately termed 'extreme distressing', I wish to point out the...
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    Re: Pick Thickness

    The Wegens do come thinner but they are not advertised and you have to order them direct from Wegen. I have a couple of 0.85 Wegen black large triangles which I got second hand. They are my go-to...
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    Re: Culhane’s and Folan’s

    Both sets of tunes are common traditional tunes and can be found in notation form on the.session.org website
  22. Re: Old, quite unique flatback. Does anyone know anything about

    It looks pretty unique and probably a one-off experiment, so hard to identify the origin. If I had to guess, going by the shape, the woods, the tuners and that you bought it in the UK, I would...
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    Re: Question for UK Members re. BREXIT

    It will take longer, be more complicated and cost you more than at present. You will also need a time machine as the EEC has not existed since 1993!
  24. Re: Lyon & Healy Style A, B, C fretboard - all radiused?

    The Italians may have got there first! Roman mandolins from about 1890, often had radiused fingerboards. They were a feature which helped make Embergher mandolins successful amongst professional...
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    Re: Florian Klaus Rumpf

    Thanks for drawing Florian to our attention. His short composition Schlaflied (lullaby) is a thing of beauty, available on his Facebook page
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