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Thanks, I returned the slow-starting recorder to Amazon. My searches there returned no info on startup time. That's why I asked here for recommendations. I'll check the Tascam DR05, thanks again.

Thanks for suggesting the Zoom H1N. Do you have any idea how long it takes to initialize? The DVR I just returned was way too slow. I fear a sophisticated recorder will not startup quickly.

My Android phone is not really suited for one-hand no eyes audio recording. If I only walked, stood, or sat while composing lyrics, tunes, sequences, poems, reminders etc, the phone or other slow,...

Yes, I've a cell phone, which requires two hands, my visual attention, and a bit of a wait before recording audio -- not what I want while driving or biking when ideas flow. I need one-handed...

I'm looking for recommendations for an easy-to-use digital voice recorder (DVR) to quickly pull from my pocket to grab ideas and sounds. Quality is less important than speed.

I wore out a couple...

IMHO a 4-stringer tuned DGBE is a big 'uke - nothing wrong with that. Tuned EADG, it's more of a piccolo bass. Tuned CGDA, it's a mandola with fewer strings. :) I'm a long time folk-blues...

My Scot-heritage grandfather, an Ohio railwayman, played a fat-belly mandolin before WWI and a banjo-mandolin afterward. AFAIK his musical approach was LOUD. Fiddles and guitars did not overwhelm...

Folk instruments are played for free. Musical instrument players are paid.

After your hand surgery, you ask, "Doc! Will I be able to play mandolin?" She replies, "Sure, I don't see why not." and you sigh, "Great! I never could before."

[/me ducks]

Q: What's the difference between songwriting and poetry?
A: Royalties.

But it's damn good when they come together. Bye, Bob.

I look up World Instruments and see the obukano, "a large bowl-shaped lyre... the double-bass of East Africa" and I think, this and the banjar differ only by a membrane and neck. Both look easier to...

I'll guess your mileau is maybe folk-country-Celtic with your role is the soprano voice. Learn chords and scales, of course. But as a soprano voice, you likely won't do much melodically with the low...

The shop, which has a Grammy winner on staff, said they inquired exhaustively of their suppliers. The modern Ohana tiple apparently uses machines not compatible with my ancient Regal or whatever it...

Nice catch with that mando!

Meanwhile, my Rogue doesn't care where I haul it.

Except into the water.

Enjoy!

This is one of those days.

Too many instruments to re-string.

Think I'll take a nap.

Construction quality matters. My cheap F-type doesn't project; it needs a pickup. My oval-hole A-type mandolins and mandola project nicely as well as sounding good to me, whether pricey or cheap; the...

When I slip a resonator back on grampa's century-old 6+ lb Gretsch banjo-mandolin and attack it with steel fingerpicks, it's pretty damn loud, even with the original hide.

My IWW Little Red Songbook is stashed somewhere safe. You'll have pie in the sky when you die (that's a lie!)

I've not played in caverns or prisons. I've played in long culverts, earth-bermed...

I have mandolins with 13 and 13.5 inch scales, mandolas with 17 and 19 inch scales, and a Cümbüş (12-string Turkish banjo) tuned in fifths with 21 inch scale, like a 6-course octave mandolin. The 13s...

My reaction, too. Yeah, back in the day on Haight Street, before I was entrusted with a mandolin. Makes me recall my infant daughter peeing on Jerry Garcia.

Play for your family. Disinvite critics for dinner. You may train them quickly.

Classical-orchestral: We see the conductor waving about more-or-less. I saw Leonard Bernstein conduct -- he performed. I saw Michael Tilson Thomas conduct. He conducted. Nice music but we could have...

It's beside me at this very moment. P.68 has good advice on encores.

Nye collected many songs and cut numerous albums but never was a star. I'd advise any would-be performers to carefully note how...

I took my old Kay mandolin for a walk.

It peed on the neighbor's roses.

Well, I blame the Kay.

"I got no kick against modern jazz
Unless they start to play it too darn fast
They lose the magic of the melody
Until it sounds just like a symphony"
--C.Berry