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Just want to take a moment to recommend Giotár, a really fine new release by Pete Strickler (tenor guitar) and Charlie Branch (guitar): http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/petestricklercharliebran. Marla Fibish...

Andy Irvine played one in the earlier days of Planxty.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wS1iorel04

Great band, Boiled in Lead. They got me in the mindset to appreciate Cordelia's Dad and then Tim Eriksen's solo work, so a good start. You really don't hear that much said about BiL anymore, though...

I've been interested in mandos and CBOMs for about twenty years now, since I was in my mid-teens, and just recently came across a chance to acquire an odd CBOMish instrument I'd known of for years...

I'm mucking around in Portugal for a few weeks waiting for a decision on a contract job elsewhere, and after a couple days in Porto I picked up a PG from a shop downtown called Porto Guitarra. I'll...

I have several portuguese guittaras. two antiques, which I love best, although they may not have the richer modern sound. I have used several "celtic" tunnings on the,. my short scale--lisboa...

I've been tuning my own portuguese guitar to nothing besides DADGAD or DADF#AD for many many years. I have never played Fado music, but Indian and North African styles. Always kept a drone going on...

After posting on this thread the other day, i took out my PG for the first time in 2 years and played it. Amazingly, it was still tuned pretty close to pitch.

I closely examined the broken tuner,...

I sent this out a couple days ago, it's a straight forward OM, no frills, Cedar top with Cedar bracing. The back and side are Maple, the neck Mahogany. The fingerboard, headstock overlay, adjustable...

...and I thought he had the mic pointed in the wrong direction.... ;)

I own a Portuguese guitar. I call mine a cittern, although Ive also heard it referred to as a fado guitar. It was built in 1967 in Lisbon. It was purchased originally by a wealthy roommate of mine...

This is worth relating, I think, as it is a very common problem, though not everyone goes quite as far as the person involved in this case.

A guitar playing friend contacted me to ask for some...

We all are - in Hawaiian. ;) The Hawaiian word for "mandolin" is "kika pukiki," if I recall correctly, or, literally, "Portuguese guitar." I found this out riffling through the paperback...

Check out Andy's website for Usher's Island. Creme de la creme of Irish music. Cant wait to see them in the new year!

A few video clips from a recent gig in Edinburgh ....


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Part of the history of Irish music (and possibly other similar musics) has been the use of cast-off instruments such as diatonic flutes, concertinas, bodhrans and even mandolins - cast-off because...

Hmmm....everyone's entitled to his/her own opinion, of course, and the opinions of a builder a skilled as Mr. Forster are certainly worth listening to and considering. But I don't agree with the...

Hey all.

Steve, you mentioned,

You are right in my case. I think of it as a big mandolin... Or a pretty uncooperative NST guitar that's missing the high G. :) I tune my Moon in fifths, CGDAE,...

Steve- I've had this list:

23" DGDAD Stephen Owsley Smith
20" GDAEA Sobell "large bodied mandola"
Vega 10-string mandolin/mandola (mandolin scale) CGDAE
Vega 10-string Mandola/mandolin (mandola...

I play a lovely Fylde archtop cittern, 23.5in scale, tuned GDGDG. It´s beautifully built, produces a huge shimmering sound, and more or less plays itself!
A popular builder here in Sweden is Mats...

I have four 5-course instruments, three of which you are likely interested in (one is 7-stringed), two of which I feel qualified to speak of.

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The one I use most frequently was made...

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Video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aod77dbBuE4

Steve - I have a 10-string mandolin-dola by little known luthier Tom Jessen. This is the second instrument I have that was built by him and all I can say is the tone and playability exceed that of...

Putting my Arches to good use!

Playing with Paddy Keenan, actually, trying to keep up with him, and John Walsh...