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My best guess would be that it's in the same family of phenomena as wolf notes, which tend to happen when different resonant frequencies (the top, the box, the back, etc.) tend to amplify a note at a...

Joni Mitchell surprised everyone with an appearance at the Newport Folk Festival Sunday. She had suffered a brain aneurysm in 2015 that left her unable to walk or talk and made it unlikely she would...

I am not a huge barre chord player, but in my experience, the neck width does not impact ease of barre chords much if at all, not nearly as much as whether or not the fretboard is radiused. I have a...

yes, those were D’Addario NB (nickel bronze) strings. That is what I have on my Campanella. Actually time to change them.

I have a modern F4 style mandolin with X bracing and 14 frets clear of the body. I love it. A bit more robust than a 12 fretter with with the old style bracing IMHO. The first mandolin like this I...

Going off of John's idea, if you set it up on a CNC, you could do something like this and never have to worry about it again...
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Or you could do it by hand, with a little 1/32" hole drilled...

Received the following broadcast email from The Mandolin Store this morning. Text as follows as an FYI for those who may not have received it:

Hello Friends,

I'd like to start off by saying...

Absolutely. If they turn ok when off the instrument, then the fault is with the installation. Most problems with tuners are with installation, and the better quality tuners are far more sensitive...

I have Waverly tuners on two mandolins and two guitars and a banjo. All are fine. If there is something wrong with the tuners Stewmac will replace them.

You might want to check if they are easy...

Play it a lot for about a year with the daddy-o 74s and revisit the issue in a year.

You can make a é by holding down the alt key while you type 130 on the keypad with 'numlock' activated. Like in Dué.

I have a Due. I put D’Addario NB strings on it. But mine has a European top and is x-braced. You might try a 11.5 as an E. Don’t go down in gauge. As Bill says, it won’t improve the sound. You...

I played a couple of his mandolins when Joe was first starting. I really would love to play one of the more recent ones. They are beautiful, perfect aesthetic for my eyes.

The material on the inside (now a darker blue color rather than the older lighter gray) is not as padded. My Ellis fit like a glove in the old one, and not as tightly (but still ok) in the new one....

From Michael Neverisky - " What's your fashion secret, Ivan ? ".

Hi Michael - No great secret,as with bonding anything to anything - ensure that the surface(s) that you're bonding to is grease...

I only met Bill a couple of times, and the only thing bigger than his personality was his heart. He did more for small shop luthiers than most will ever know. He'll be missed. RIP Bill.

Hopefully this is the right place to post this - seems like other people are placing similar posts in this section.

About a month ago I took delivery of a new Taran Springwell mandolin made by...

In the chapter that covers the very start of the company, I researched as many first employees as I could. I found about seven between 1903 and 1907. In the next chapter I have the entire list of...

I believe old gibson oval hole mandolins get misdiagnosed with sunkin tops by people unfamiliar with the top side profile . I think when they look at the side profile and see it level from oval hole...

Not sure if there is enough interest to sustain a thread this specific, but there is only one way to find out.

I've always thought that there is something about Vince Guaraldi's music - whether...

That's the one Barry, and it referenced the Facebook post I remembered as well. And just to link it back to the Cafe - the article can be found here: ...

If it's not the battery, then try changing the location on the peghead where you clamp the tuner. Some locations are better than others. I use multiple brands of tuners on electric bass, guitars,...

I agree, check the battery out...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yl9XKcp1kBk&noredirect=1

Stumbled across this 2001 interview from Vintage Guitar magazine, thought it was worth sharing. It will not in any way help cure your MAS or GAS.

http://www.vintageguitar.com/2902/norman-blake/