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Tell us about that truss rod cover, Dan!

My main interest is in Irish and Scottish traditional music. But I do pay attention to BG and OT. No one has yet mentioned Mike Guggino, of the Steep Canyon Rangers. I find that his solo playing...

Getting to be a good list of lesser knowns we haven't heard of to chase up. How come Marty Stuart has been overlooked. His "Mando Rip" is pretty unique.

The tone when you tune your mandolin to A-G-E-D?

Purely from theoretical side I agree, but you cannot control all the tiny details from manager seat or spec'ing them exactly to whoever is at the bench and the result is always sum of those tiny...

Hi everyone,

It looks like I joined back in 2016 but never posted.

I recently discovered the baroque mandolino and it’s fascinating music, so I have been lurking around here recently. I don’t...

Hi guys,

I’m keeping it. I’m working it out with the vendor and it will end up being a pretty sweet deal.

Just so you know, after they contacted me earlier in the week, they said that their...

I just wanted to give a shout out for DataNick who has this on Bluegrasstoday:

https://bluegrasstoday.com/california-report-san-diego-mandolinist-b-k-nick-nicholson/

I miss his quality posts...

May you have a warm, happy and lovely birthday.

One of his wonderful songs, sadly never on an album.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv5UPOgGeEQ

The Pickelhaube is the way to go.
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I've noticed a lot of mandolin players wear hats in their videos. What style hat will make me look like a better player? ;)

I watched this great example of "The Man" at work, and could not find it posted before. I don't think Bill ever suffered stage fright. What a performer!:mandosmiley:...

The extended range of five courses, along with the richer tone and attack of doubled strings, means I can make a full sound in just a trio setting. Here I revisit a favorite Keith Jarrett tune from...

We have the final edit of our mini documentary about Bill Monroe's July 9 Gibson F-5 featuring David Harvey, George Gruhn and others discussing the impact of the world's most famous mandolin.
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My daughters and I performed for an evening social gathering at the Fort Bridger Mountain Man Rendezvous. Here is one of the tunes we performed that night, featuring Liesl (16) on fiddle and...

I'm just curious, do you think using this Lloyd Loar label with his signature is any different that Gibson using Bill Monroe's signature on the limited HOF models? I personally think anyone buying...

I-m happy to see that Brian Obrlin has posted a transcription of Howdy Forrester's version on https://www.mandoberlin.com/lessons/Brilliancy_Howdy.pdf -- which is superior to that of Sam Bush...

An arrangement by K.Krantz of Satie's piano piece for violin and guitar played on my German bowlback and my shortscale Torres-copy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0J9Mo_87ko

https://soundcloud.com/user-875085466/rrotgd

Man, that is so incredible! The styles - hair, clothes, etc., are brutal; but that is some fine MUSIC!!! Today, playing “One Love,” wearing a Bob Marley shirt at a bluegrass festival would be no...

Dear mando colleagues, I'd like to share one of my favourite mando related live performances with you here. Enjoy!


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMb-6tXAfC4

Here's "White Rabbit" by Molly Tuttle and Golden Highway, with Dominick Leslie on mandolin. I'm not crazy over this version, but thought I'd post it because I don't think it's been posted here...

Nicely played Tim. I like the arpeggios.

Managed to get out and see the sun the other day, temperatures above freezing.
This winter is almost over! :) Here’s a great Reischman tune that I’m...

I just stumbled across these guys, very nice....


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I hope this link works. It's from Twitter and while I've embedded many's a YouTube video, I haven't, as far as I can remember, pasted a Twitter link before.

Anyway, the video features Christy...