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Interesting, I hadn't heard of this particular tuning before. What are its benefits / disadvantages? I have commonly tuned down my mandos in the past (CGDA usually) to reduce tension and get a lower...

Hard to go wrong with any of the above, quality-wise, but as you mention being a guitar player you might fancy a guitar-bodied style

I happened to run across this page of guitar-body octaves by...

Could be, or that in combination with an inadvertently misattributed mandola (17"/14" = about 21% longer than a mandolin) would bring the two closer together in size (a design feature that might've...

I don't see what the debate is, it's all a matter of taste and mood. I have pieces/songs in my mp3 collection all across the tempo and mood spectrum. All depends on what mood I'm in at a given time....

Mark O'Connor wrote a nice tribute for him in a FB post the other day ... excerpt:

Cross-platform branding synergy, leveraging proven assets into high-growth opportunity segments to exploit innovative resources, optimizing shareholder value.

Maybe 17-string, six-pickup hybrid double neck harp-slide-guitar hybrids will become the next thing. :cool:

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That would certainly be nothing to brag about, and could even give one a serious inferiority complex. :))

Play with your back to the audience. Mumble a few words apologetically when you're done then quickly rush offstage to the waiting limo to ferry you back to the hotel, where you proceed to destroy the...

The perceived lack of interest in old folks' stuff by their younger family members may just be due to the small sample size. We all have things we are very enamored with that reflect our personal...

Lots of interesting opinions here, definitely bookmarking this thread. For the sake of convenience (mine mainly) I'll just throw out a couple of observations that I think will dovetail with some of...

On the plus side with this sort of upgrade chain, all those items (except the shipping!) can just be transferred to another mandolin if you ever get tired of or outgrow the MK.

I've upgraded the...

I just got one today from a pseudo-Amazon phisher. Usually you can tell by reading them -- they are often full of bad grammar, typos, and similar giveaways that are just sloppy conmanship. If you...

I got a tenor banjo a few months ago; they're tuned in fifths like the mandolin family so you can use the same general fingering and a lot of mando tab music will just carry over (though the stretch...

I suspect the tiny metallic flakes within the gold metallic finish will resonate within certain frequency ranges (given orientation and exact dimensions of each metallic flake, of course), providing...

I suppose one never forgets one's first car either. :grin:

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Mandolin Squad

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And apparently was knowledgeable or concerned enough to have it kept in climate controlled conditions for a decade to avoid damage, possibly calling from prison once in a while to keep tabs on it...

While agreeing with all the above, I'd just add that you shouldn't jump to conclusions about the current seller (if so tempted.) The instrument may have passed through several hands over the prior...

I haven't read every post so apologies if these have been mentioned already.

Almost anything by Townes Van Zandt ... especially his later stuff.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYK-jNZ0xhQ
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With the Cafe ball cap, there is also such a thing as "mandolin couture." :cool:

Been down this road before ... I brought up the "closing down" argument on a prior go-round with this topic, and concluded that selection bias may be at work. I.e., the closing down phenomenon may...

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Apologies if this is a repost, there's too much stuff to search through ... Googled this little clip while looking for more Johnny Staats material after checking out the recent MP3 linked on the main...

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