I started playing BEFORE electronic tuners were affordable and common!! Believe me , if you cared about being in tune with those you are playing with you would cover 3/4 of the mandolin rather than...
I started playing BEFORE electronic tuners were affordable and common!! Believe me , if you cared about being in tune with those you are playing with you would cover 3/4 of the mandolin rather than...
Several years ago I was in a music store, picked up a “cheap” mandolin. Price was $99 case extra, it flat blew me away!! I figured if I bought another mandolin I would have to find another wife , so...
How about Jesse McRenyolds cross picking, he has a real hitch in his. I cross pick more like a backward Shuffler which also means like a banjo roll you use different rolls a lot of times for one...
I agree the way to sound absolutely monotonous is ududidu all
The time
This is bluegrass! I’ve heard one of Don Reno’s boys say they can’t recall their dad playing s break twice the same way. This could even be a transcript and she might be playing it different on what...
All these post say this
Project is good music. I haven’t heard it but I don’t doubt that it is good music. Willie doesn’t do bad music. But it aint bluegrass. Every post says that!! Then why call it...
Never made an instrument, done minor repair ( very minor) and set up quite a few mandolins. But I have played one for about 60 years. So with that qualifications my answer to the question “What...
I bought a gross of the Fender Xtra heavy (144) for about what 1blue chip would cost. Yeah the wear more than BC but I bet the gross outlasts 1 BC, even if I lose a couple.
Not in my opinion, I have one a friend gave me and I see it to be no better in sound or playability than the Fender Xtra heavy I’ve used for years,
I would try going down instead of up. Haven’t researched it but if the G, D, and A was moved
down one and a heavier string used as a forth for C. Would seem to me if C string was right , pull on...
When the F5 was introduced along with the whole line of “Master Models”, Gibson was making a line of mandolins from entry level , thru many levels to a “master”. Having a line of top end products...
A mandolin is a mandolin, not an upside down guitar, not a fretted , plucked fiddle er excuse me violin; not a ukulele. If you are going to play mandolin, LEARN HOW!!! Don’t even try to learn to...
I think it was Monroe himself that said to develop your own style , you should learn EVERYTHING that anyone else does snd then DO NONR OF IT!! I love Monroe mandolin, have played mandolin for almost...
Try carrying a banjo in a decent case around,
the mandolin case had not been built that approaches
That!!!
Chances are you have used their strings, they
Make the core for wound string and the unwound strings
for a lot if not all string manufacturers. I use them and love them
On all my mandolins....
The first time I heard her I said she has Monroe down perfect. I listened some more and decided she was doing what Monroe was trying to do. She has the attitude but much smoother.
You will be buying mandolins for the rest of your life. Buy the one that speaks to you, start practicing and looking for your next mandolin. Just remember you ain't supposed to sell them, just buy...
Kentucky seem to be good for their price. They make all from beginner to the 900 and 1000 which I classify as begin professional
Just to answer one question (2) maybe a poor mandolin but I can't see how, poor technique would seem to showvip more on noted strings as would equal temperament. I would think maybe you dislike the...
Pops I agree, it's the wide " dimple" that affects intonation and that can be recrowned several times before it lowers the fret enough to require total leveling. The leveling can be done several...
Micing acoustic instruments is the only way I’ll go, pick-ups produce an unnatural sound in my opinion, due to proximity of pick-up to soundboard. Put your ear against guitar and pick a song, hear...
Mike thanks for the education and help the mandolin owner and I at least know what we are looking for now we suspect changing will require additional drilling and I won’t tackle that so he has kept...
I’ve read all the suggestions, my .02 worth is the name on the peghead IS NOT the final test. You may find a $1,000 mandolin that will put them to shame, play every one you see for sale until one...
I have never been at the point of not needing another mandolin. I need just one more, when I get that all I’ll need is one more
All that may be true, but the mandolin really came into its own thru BG.