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    Re: Happy Birthday Doc Watson

    Bluegrass Life posted this on Facebook, and now that I know Doc has held a mandolin in his hands, I am assured it is a sacred instrument.

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  2. Re: A customer playing a baroque mandolin I built

    Historically mandolins were often played with plectrums made of cherry wood, in a triangular shape roughly similar to modern plectrums (not quills or longer risha-like plectrums), but often shaped...
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    Re: Demonstrating a mandolin

    This is a good suggestion that I really never thought of... I'm going to bring this up next filming.
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    Re: Post a picture of what's on your bench?

    Very nice work, Spencer, and sounding great! Bill, I see where you’re coming from regarding the fir staining…Spencer, you just need to advertise this as “naturally distressed” and charge a little...
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    Re: playing late and drinking

    Still, you have to remember that some people take moderation to extremes.;)
  6. Re: D'Addario Micro Headstock vs Micro Clip Free tuners

    I prefer a big honkin TC Unitune. Bought a mandolin that came in a case covered with stickers - fine by me. I also dress funny.

    D.H.
  7. Mandolinist wins Celtic Connections 2024 Young musician prize

    Calum McIlroy, the winner of BBC Radio Scotland Young Traditional Musician 2024, performs G Iomain na Gamhna for crowds in Glasgow’s


    https://youtu.be/JFTqiVEjK-Q?feature=shared

    JFTqiVEjK-Q
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    Re: Attack, pick and string gauge

    Mandolins are around 14” scale length while most guitars have 24 3/4” to 25 1/2” scales. Given the same string gauge, that short scale yields a greater string stiffness compared to longer stringed...
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    Re: Wintergrass Jam 2/22 - 2/25

    It's mostly so I can look at this post when I lose the schedule haha.
  10. Re: Jam Etiquette / Rules Question - Should songs be banned

    I’m not keen on banning specific tunes or songs but I have to say if you bring a tune or song to a jam you should be able to play and or sing it well enough to lead it so that others can follow along.
  11. Re: Jam Etiquette / Rules Question - Should songs be banned

    Wagon Wheel, the song all the cool kids hate and the audiences always love. Banning songs? We hold genre specific jams (old time, bluegrass, etc.) and even though folks show up for those jams we used...
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    DataNick on Bluegrasstoday

    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...
  13. Paul Glasse on video w/Western Swing band 2023

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s6BpXBpp0vQ
  14. Browns Ferry Blues-posted today, loaded with living icons

    goodness, everybody on this are top shelf. Sam Bush playing mandolin and bass, quick glimpse of him holding a blonde mando(does he have a new axe?), Bela, Tony T, Michael on fiddle and as always is a...
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    Re: Wide Nut Fever?

    Well... if it weren't for the YouTube trend, I wouldn't be able to check out his shredding.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYnADnzCO80
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    Re: Ohio Heritage Fellow : Don Macrostie

    I don't need a Red Diamond right now
    I don't need a Red Diamond right now
    I really don't need a Red Diamond right now
  17. Thread: N(tm)MD

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    N(tm)MD

    New (to me) mandolin day. My Christmas present to myself. I bought a Big Muddy M1X with pickup and case from Sal at the Acoustic Guitar Forum. (Thanks to him for doing a great packing job.)

    I...
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    Re: Giacomel A-5

    It is beautiful… for those who prefer the convenience of a link (while it is still here): https://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/212234#212234
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    Re: Slow, sweet songs

    https://youtu.be/HQVRG7sKnx4?si=_oAIXCh701-HeQd0
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    Re: Obessed with the tenor banjo

    Your comment sent me down a Tyler Jackson-sized rabbit hole. Stunning stuff!
  21. Re: Any others here that started their mandolin/instrument later

    It’s never too late to start learning anything (well, except maybe learning to behave!); just never enough time to learn about all the interesting stuff out there.

    I was lucky to grow up with a...
  22. Re: Any others here that started their mandolin/instrument later

    I began learning how to play a mandolin after I purchased a Flatiron Festival A in December 2001 at age 61. I began learning how to play a guitar when I was in high school and the 5-string banjo when...
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    Re: Franks' Mandolin Kitchen

    Here's as simple, and clean version of this classic as I could do. Thanks for the Listen!~o)~o)~o):mandosmiley::mandosmiley::mandosm iley:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fEZuB7XhIw
  24. Thread: Here It Is

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    Here It Is

    https://youtu.be/ovvPyVeaMec?si=o1zq39Xrko3QJH7e
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    Re: Economy or alternate picking

    .....& Django Reinhardt played that way before Chet Atkins was born... ;)
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