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    Re: What do you plan to be doing when You're 104?

    I don't like to make plans that far ahead. That's when they start throwing terms like "premeditated" around the courtroom.

    (Can't remember who I stole that from.)
  2. Thread: Octolindo

    by M19
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    Re: Octolindo

    I bought an Artist model (Rosewood b/s and Engelman "f-hole" top) direct from Kilin Reece in HI. I have no intonation issues, so I wonder if TMS didn't do an effective set-up? High nut maybe?
    I...
  3. Re: Why are some songs not written in the key they are in?

    Actually, it is probably easier to read normal tonal music when there is a key signature. The advantage is that if the composer throws in a note that is NOT part of the scale that the piece is...
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    The Break (jazz original)

    I put this up on Soundcloud in late June, and I see it's now been played three times. So I'm giving it a little nudge. Quartet number for mandolin, guitar, bass and drums, recorded around 2007. ...
  5. Cripple Creek mandolins - all Koa and octave

    201531
    201532
    (Sorry these are sideways. I can’t figure out how to turn them.)

    I wanted to share my custom mandolins made by David Hanson (Tukanu here on the Cafe) of Cripple
    Creek mandolins....
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    Re: Instrument Insurance Help

    Thing is the definition of "professional". This has gotten two friends of mine in trouble. And how they talk before you buy the insurance may be at odds with how they talk when you have to make a...
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    Re: A Unicorn Walks the Earth

    That's not the way Bill did it.
  8. Recently discovered documentary footage from the Gibson factory

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-zOaOYB120

    Just a short glimpse of mandolin building in the custom shop toward the end - anybody recognize the builders?...
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    Blues Mandolin - One Way Out

    Hi Everyone,

    Hope you’re all great. :-)

    Here’s an Elmore James song transposed to the mandolin. It was tricky finding a way to establish a rhythm luck for it, but the saxophone part actually...
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    Re: Price increases coming soon or already here

    Or in the words of Yogi Berra: "The future ain’t what it used to be."

    :popcorn:
  11. Aaron Weinstein's New Apitius yorkville mandolin

    Hi all,

    I'm so excited by the new mandolin I just received from genius luthier, Oliver Apitius. In my opinion, there is no mandolin that is better suited to Jazz. And it plays like a dream. I...
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    Re: Right hand wrist position

    I think of changing my left or right hand mechanics as ‘refining’ my technique, rather than ‘relearning’. Much less traumatic.
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    Re: Fingerboard Extensions

    That's for guitar. It's the seventh fret for mandolin. :grin:

    Not a fan of the DBT as Glassweb calls those scalloped extensions.
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    Re: Predicting the Future

    There's only one thing I know for sure. Keith Richards will still be around to see it if it does happen.
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    Re: Intonation issue

    For anyone who is interested, here is my method of checking intonation at the 12th fret.
    First, tune the string pair to exactly the same note. If we have any ear training at all, we know how to...
  16. Re: Mandolin chords chart in standard notation

    Here they are - hope they are helpful172364

    - - - Updated - - -

    And here are the rest.172365
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    Andy Wood - Bohemian Rhapsody

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLCg2aoqh9Q
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    Re: Don't you just hate it when ...

    Or they know the tune but they're leaving out half the chords or playing entirely wrong chords. So you're faced with the choice to play it in a way that you don't like the sound of, just to fit in...
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    Re: Cheering during live performance

    Cheering and clapping after someone finishing their break bothers me,you can't hear the next guy starting their solo..
  20. Let It Go - Disney's Frozen - Solo Mandolin Arrangement w/ Tab

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

    Tab
    Notation
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    Re: Favorite Books to Read?

    Fabulous book.

    Satan is Real: The Ballad of the Louvin Brothers

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    Re: I may be crazy but it sounds good

    One point - ''Mapes'' strings,as good as they seem to be - won't have 'the same tone' as the strings that you used. Different string brands are 'different' (usually). DR MD12's are 12//16/28 & 41...
  23. Thread: Electric Bass

    by DavidKOS
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    Re: Electric Bass

    OK

    http://www.notreble.com/buzz/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/jaco-solo-1978.jpg

    Man, Jaco could play a real bass very well.
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    Re: Changing Sound

    It takes about as long as it takes you to become a better player.I'm one who doesn't put much stock in the whole opening up thing. Opening up the case frequently and playing will make YOU sound...
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    Re: Mobile Sheets Pro & Fire 7 tablet

    I have Mobile Sheets Pro on a cheap generic Android tablet and a couple of my colleagues have it installed on their tablets (I do not know the make of the tablets) and we all have found it stable and...
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