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I've read this thread with interest. The church we've attended for many years has a pretty firm "core competency" (to use business terms) for its musical style. I have tried at times to insert...

I have a Fylde Single Malt mandolin that I love. It was an unplanned upgrade from an Eastman 505 after I had the chance to visit the Fylde workshop. As has been suggested, get on the newsletter and...

My setup is pretty low-tech. I record audio in GarageBand on my iPad with a Samson goMic ($35 at Staples), then do some very basic mixing in GarageBand on my computer. I'm really early on the...

Tune for Fee is lovely, Aidan. Here is my cover (also my first foray into tinkering with my own harmony parts).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7cCK_p7YKw

Sonatina in C major is the first song I heard that I associated with mandolin. This was on the first Beethoven's Wig CD, and was a Father's Day gift in 2007. A couple years later a family member...

https://youtu.be/VeQpDYfBe_A

Hope Never Lost is a lovely tune written by hammered dulcimer player Matthew Dickerson in honor of his stillborn infant sister. I've been wanting to learn it for a...

To search for sheet music, go to https://musescore.com/. There is a search bar at the top of the page. Type in a term (e.g., Carolan), and it will take you to a bigger search page. You can filter...

In addition to changing the key signature when you import the PDF from musescore's website, you can also transpose within the song. Tools - Transpose - By Interval, and make sure that the "Transpose...

I had a stretch where I was traveling for business every few months. I stuck my mandolin in my gig bag and took it with me. It was a great way to get practice time in. I still use it sometimes...

Thanks. It's a lovely instrument. I was quite happy with my Eastman MD505 until I played this one on a visit Roger Bucknall's shop while living in the UK. My wife finally told me to buy it so that...

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There were a couple MDA315 ads in the classifieds a month or so ago. I waited a few days to think about responding to the first one, at which point it had already sold. I learned my lesson...

It's fun to hear the mandolin / recorder combination. I have a copy of Walsh's "Celtic Music for Recorder," but have not tried to put the two instruments together. This has planted the seed of the...

A friend invited me to watch Chris Leslie perform in Derby last fall. Chris played and sang on several instruments; including a cool 4-stringed one that I'd never seen before. That was my...