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    sure a lot of lose screws out there

    I joined this group about 2003 posted for a while and left due to some of the silly post didn't know what I was reading until I read it! So started playing different instruments that I wouldn't be...
  2. Re: Non-conformist idiot here could use a support therapist ... ;

    He Pm me also and talked about his doing the work of GOD. What A idiot lives in the outback has no skills probably doesn't eat meat walks in sandles and a robe and is building a cross somewhere. ...
  3. Re: Non-conformist idiot here could use a support therapist ... ;

    I think this is garbage! An educated man living in the outback no skills no car. When I was born on the island off N C we had few adminitys school was I=6 party line phone and travel to the main...
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    Re: New Guitar--some mandolin content

    15 years ago I got hurt on the job! After the operation failed I was put out to pasture. Having been a racing cyclist before injury and working 40 hr plus a week I was extremely bored!! and...
  5. Thread: volume booster

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    Re: volume booster

    Great me thinks you lost me at the first picture! But thanks was instresting reading? I think I.ll go and play while my head is unwinding
  6. Re: Birth of F holes explained as evolution of increased efficien

    I kinda feel that this as in many others ( mandolin opening up? kinds of wood used? plywood /solid ) It mostly depends on public knowledge , who plays what, and industry hype:grin:
  7. Thread: Cuatros

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    Cuatros

    Has anyone tried a Cuatro (Porto Rico) 10 string tuned B E A D G I recently acquired one and tuned it G D A E B like a ten string mandolin It has deep tone and it fun to play anyone...
  8. Thread: Slide mandolin

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    Re: Slide mandolin

    I used a glass slide on my RM1 when I was playing with a blues group
  9. Thread: lost instrest

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    Re: lost instrest

    Thanks for all the kind responsis. I'm just look for a guitar with the same value or guitar and some cash classical nylon amped whatever
  10. Thread: lost instrest

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    lost instrest

    I would guess [I]'m not the first to lose instrest in playing mandolins lately bluegrass turns me off Jazz and blues ore ok. I just had my second strock and also have macurer degenration and seeing...
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    Re: Mandos are so "in" right now!!

    UKELELES sales started to pick up about 2008. That was when I started my club part of the reason I think was (is) cost at that time you could buy a playable uke for less $100 and at that time the...
  12. Thread: Introduction

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    Re: Introduction

    There are a lot of two and three finger chords like C bluegrass chop three fingers and age is a problem started at 63 now 72 and hope to live long enought to get 10,000 hours on madolin ,guitar,...
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    Re: Finally Got my Mandolin in tune!

    And people wonder why I love my 6 string banjo tned taropatch (DGDGBD) Ha HA
  14. Re: We're in THE FUTURE- how do you meet people to play music?

    I see your here in California if you want to met new players ! Just go on the internet! and type in MEETUPS IN ANY AREA YOU WANT
  15. Thread: back again...

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    Re: back again...

    Read your bog and even thou I'm a lot older than you I have followed the same trail. In about 2009 I stoped playing blue grass and went to Ukulele, Started a group called fred's fretters and played...
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    Re: Lignum Vitae for a bridge?

    I hve made several with a bone top ( I buy dog bones at the pet store and cut then bad smell but the dogs and I both benifit ) they seem to add a brightness to some madolins
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    Re: This is just wrong

    I would guess that I to am wrong? I play hawiian music (badly) on both my mandolin and irish banjo and play some bluegrass backup on my snare drum ha ha and at my age what's the difference music to...
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    Re: This is just wrong

    Here in Santa Cruz ( the last stand for Hippies) some of the baskers on pacific street play bluegrass!! and the Son's of the beach, the country's largest ukulele group plays bluegrass,gospil and...
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    national resonator

    how does one find out when it was buitl by the serial No.
  20. Thread: Wooden Picks

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    Re: Wooden Picks

    I use to make them for a friend that played as a profesional wit a loca group he loved them I madethem from cocanut shells a lot of work I tapered the sides and left most of the center thick
  21. Thread: Low Budget MAS

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    Re: Low Budget MAS

    I have about 60 cheap instruments and have given away aout the same there are a lot of folks that would like to play music and can't aford them. I an my wife also teach manolin,guitar ukuele marimba...
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    Re: Who's your favorite mandolin player?

    :)

    SERRIA hULL BEAUTIFULL AND SO GREAT LOTS OF PLAYING YEARS AHEAD FOR THIS QUEEN OF THE MANDOLIN
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    Re: Mandolin for a New Generation

    I don't know where you are but what about Sam Bush,the Dog big G,and Seriia Hull. Almost all beginer books start off with old tunes loke Nonesuch,Skip to my lou ect. Most of the New tunes have a...
  24. Re: Anything I should know before I jump right into learning mand

    Don't it leads to MAS and thats fatal
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    Re: What else am i missing out on!!!?

    I tryed bluegrass for years never could seem to et the hang of it got the chops down OK but never seemed to know the songs bought about 6 books on parking lot picking ,oldtime songsct and could never...
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