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    Re: It Made the Mandolin Sound Better

    The smoker you drink the player you get. (J.Walsh)
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    Re: Levin Model 42 (1948)

    I like it!

    Sounds great.

    Nice tremolo...ing.
  3. Thread: the Small Dog

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    Re: the Small Dog

    fatt,always wanted a white A3 like yours. Any pics of your Gibson L-1? You have some very cool instruments.

    I bet Dr.Cohen's redwood/walnut A5 sounds sweet! I remember talking mandology with him...
  4. Thread: the Small Dog

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    Re: the Small Dog

    I have a couple Small Dog case covers. They are protecting my gorgeous Daffodil Pegasus F-style case and screamin' Tangerine
    Pegasus A-style case.
    A good case deserves a cover. Those 25 year old...
  5. Re: Fantastic David Grisman Quintet one mic recording

    Dawg,at 75 years of age,Matt Eakle,and Jim Kerwin have played together for many years in supergroups of the Dawg genre.


    They are all sufficiently talented enough jazz cats to know how/when to...
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    Re: Pachelbel's Canon and Gigue in D

    Yep. I'll take the andante version. The molasses-in-winter tempo sounds like a dirge.
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    Re: Thomastik-Infeld Strings

    Flatwound TI strings are an acquired taste I reckon. Nice to the fingers. Don't seem to cut in a group setting.

    Tried mittel and starks. Sounded the same when I took them off as when new.
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    Re: Should Bryan Kimsey scallop my guitar?

    Tried(not very hard) to stay out of this discussion since I know so little of the topic at hand.

    I am very favorably impressed with the knowledge and experience being shared here so freely....
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    Re: Norman Blake Tunes

    That white Black mandolin sounds just right!

    Nice pickin on 3rd Street Gypsy.
  10. Thread: Saddle issue

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    Re: Saddle issue

    Can't help with your saddle question; but,since you mentioned NB strings,I have to ask if you have ever tried Monel on your guitar or mandolin?

    I played phos.brnz for years and finally tried...
  11. Re: Land's End. Tim O'Brien cover with free notation

    Been playing this tune for years. I guess I always thought Tim O' wrote it. Wrong!

    But from listening to the more traditional playing of it(more like a jig?), it sounds like two completely...
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    Re: Gender and age distribution of mando players

    "Baseball is 90% mental. The other half is physical." Yogi Berra
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    Re: D'Addario Monel sets

    Currently have the Mangan Monel custom mediums on my Derrington F5. My favorite strings on that Mando.
    Those strings and a full-contact bridge are a good combo on it.

    For me, Mangan and D'Addario...
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    Re: Well this isn’t good..

    I had the bridge-feet indentations on my F5. Got full-contact bridge. End of problem; and,helped my plains sing better.

    I think John Reischman had the same thing with his Loar.

    Nothing to...
  15. Re: D'Addario's new Chris Thile signature mandolin pick

    Ordered the D'Addario Thile pick from Sweetwater a couple weeks back. Still waiting.

    Anybody know the availability status of these.

    Waiting to hear back from Sweetwater.
  16. Thread: New Frets!

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    Re: New Frets!

    It's amazing what a nice new set of polished frets will do for your old mandolin.

    Years ago I had Don MacRostie replace the fingerboard on my A-1 snakehead with a radiuses one, and install...
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    Re: Coated like uncoated choices

    In regards to "like the sound of" coated vs. uncoated,and long-lasting or extra life/less string changes,all these traits tend to point to D'Addario and/or Curt Mangan Monel strings. They're not...
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    Re: Shipping picks: A word to the wise...

    Common sense just ain't that common.
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    Re: My Levin Mandolin, Master Model 42 from 1955

    Very nice playing!

    Love those mahogany Martins. The Levin has a pleasant tone.

    Your tremolo sounds absolutely wonderful. There are many players who would be jealous of your skillful...
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    Re: Shipping picks: A word to the wise...

    I just sent a member here on the Cafe a bunch of old(1950's?) Japanese clown barf picks and am guilty of taping them together to fit into an envelope. I think you can rub off most of the adhesive.
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    Re: Some very fine Nancy Blake mandolin

    Nancy has been a musical inspiration to me for a long time.

    I saw them play in Milledgeville,Ga. one night and was able to meet them and played "Sage Fields" on my mando for them.
    They both...
  22. Re: D'Addario's new Chris Thile signature mandolin pick

    Like a lot of others I have tried a running cornucopia of picks,changed my mind about some of them over time,gone back
    and forth on what I prefer.

    I like Wegens,BC,Red Bear casein etc. The...
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    Re: Your Thoughts On D'Addario XT Strings

    I tried the XT set,but was already solidly hooked on Daddario monels. Standard gauge for me so far. May try the Bush gauges
    at some pont. Their monel strings check all the boxes for what I want.
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    Re: Need mando advice

    Your short list sounds like a good one.

    Play as many mandolins as you can. Do road trips to get to them if necessary.

    Choose the one that speaks to you personally and is most playable. Do basic...
  25. Re: A tuner shootout: TC Electronic Unitune vs. Peterson StroboCl

    Aaron,I agree with your assessments. I can use the Peterson ok but prefer the Unitune.PS,My first Unitune would eat a battery in a few uses. Sweetwater sent me a new one to replace it. Works great.
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