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Video update: FF holes are now 98% complete. I won't take out significantly more material, just refine the edges for the visual aspect. This process with James' test rig has been such an eye opener,...

Hi there. Just happened across this post. To be clear, we do not wind our own strings. We work with progressional outfits that make strings as their specialty. We offer our preferred strings sets on...

Back to Back was remastered(hi-Def) and made available by Acoustic Disc as a download. Outtakes are included..the entire CD's worth! said alternate takes are not problematic but rather contain...

I fought with the difficulty of adapting my mandolin knowledge to mandola for several years. In fact, there are probably a million and half bitching and moaning posts here on the Cafe about it.
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Happy Friday,
I'm working through recording my favorite piece of music, Vivaldi's Four Seasons. All mandolin parts are played on my Flatiron 1-N and the viola and portions of the cello parts on my...

Ethan, Rick - you’re both added to the list.

Always good to get different perspectives on triplets, quadruplets, quin… and then make up your own mind. Here’s one:


https://youtu.be/FXnQ5l-Qo1A?feature=shared
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I believe that there are many apps for flash cards that kendor could find, to answer the original question. I believe the best would be one that requires you to develop your own questions. The task...

Learning the piano keyboard, even just as a music theory learning tool, is very useful. One advantage over the mandolin fingerboard is that each discrete pitch has only a single place to play them....

As a fairly new mandolin player, Aaron's suggested approach using the mandolin keyboard has worked well for me on swing jazz tunes. When I started out I did try a flashcard approach and memorizing a...

Here's a quick little improv from the first night I got my Newport tenor. Definitely not a perfect performance but I absolutely love that guitar.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNswk-nEgAQ

For the sake of the ironic humor, I have to point out that it's a genetic proofreading tic. :grin:

Not much to add to this but this is why I like listening to electric mandolin, when there's someone that really knows how to get one set-up correctly and has the right kind of musical sensibilities...

I have been home all weekend on the holiday weekend here in France recovering from Bronchitis. Wife and kids have been visting family and going on outings. Yesterday, to stave off the boredom of...

Yes, I know, this song has been done, redone, used, and abused, and I should have left it alone. However, I decided maybe there was a little room left in the world for a solo mandolin instrumental....

If Mandolin Cafe were ever to offer t-shirts for sale V-Neck should certainly be an option.

We're OK with this being discussed, not OK with multiple instances of false/wrong information reposted for others to digest. Wherever this "key individuals" caused all this came from, I assure you,...

Here's a further update to this. After keeping my mando in the case for a while, the padding has now compressed properly, and the case lid closes very easily without any resistance. I guess the...

Luke's top is off the test rig and we glued it to the final rib garland this evening with the new go-bar deck. (More broken basses in the background!)

His fingerboard is made and fretted; binding...

Here’s a quick video of my top on James’ test rig. Sound holes rough cut and braces shaped!

https://youtu.be/QI7IRJEizK0?feature=shared

Fun to watch those old documentaries. Anyone know who the Guitar player was?
Here’s couple of pix of me bringing my snakehead to it’s birthplace.
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Hi Folks! Here's the first two videos I ever posted. 13 Years ago, shot on a Sony 8 digital tape. These were shortly before I found the MC and got back into mandolin again. Thanks for the...

Yes. They mention that in the first video, about 1:50 in.

I did play one of the demo models, I thought it was first rate! Congratulations!

I just happened across this brief youtube video thanks to their autosuggestion function. It's only a couple of years old and includes some interesting information. For one thing, it mentions plans by...