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    Re: Keeping up with the Fiddlers

    @Sue: Another aspect of this is picking the right group to play with, assuming you have a choice. If you're not ready for the speed the fiddlers are playing, is there another jam or session you can...
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    Re: Keeping up with the Fiddlers

    The advice above is good, just a few more thoughts here. As a preamble, I'll note that fiddlers have a technical advantage over our flatpicked instruments, because they can slur a run of notes. I...
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    Re: Who makes a wound A string?

    The "last forever" part is something I consider a drawback, at least with respect to intonation. The tone does seem to last forever because the strings don't lose brightness the way PB roundwounds...
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    Re: Who makes a wound A string?

    Thomastik Stark gauge flatwound strings have wound A strings.

    Expensive, but everyone should try Thomastik strings at least once. They didn't work for me because I need a brighter "cut" in the...
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    Re: To Speed Neck or Not to Speed Neck

    I did it to my mandolin because I like the feel under my hand, and I like the aesthetics, the way it's similar to a violin neck. My Lebeda mandolin is not a well-known name, and I plan to keep it...
  6. Re: Tuning mandola or octave mandolin with 2nd course an octave h

    I tried it, briefly, on my octave mandolin. Didn't like it. I mostly play Irish/Scottish melody lines on my OM ("fiddle tunes"), and hearing the octave jump within the melody line was too...
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    Re: Wide Nut Fever?

    I tend to think of it as a "let's pander to guitar players who want to try a mandolin" trend, so if there are more showing up in the market then there must be more guitar players taking up mandolin....
  8. Re: Does Pick Size and Instrument Size have any Correlation?

    If I've learned one thing in the time I've spent here, there are certain subjects where there is no "right" choice and it just comes down to personal preference once you've been playing mandolin long...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    Good point; the sound of your mandolin in a group like that isn't the same as when you're practicing at home, and I think it can help to train yourself to hear the difference.

    When you're playing...
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    Re: Improving tone.

    I'm in the "tone comes from your right hand" camp. It pays to be constantly aware of what you're doing, and not get complacent and lazy about your picking.

    When I'm in the middle of an...
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    Re: Thumb to damp g course?

    When I play some of the slower Irish/Scottish tunes, an adjacent string pair may still ring out a little and clash with the following notes. It's more of an issue on the octave mandolin with longer...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    At one time I had a small collection of metal-body roundneck Dobro guitars from the 1930's where they used a "trapeze" tailpiece similar to that one, and it was common to see them broken. Just a poor...
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    Re: Approaches to Practice...

    People are at different stages of development as musicians, so the focus will naturally be different for everyone. I'm at a point with mandolin (and flute) where I'm pretty happy with my technique,...
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    Re: Mandolin Slides

    I think the main issue in transitioning from guitar is the shorter scale and stiffer feel of the strings. You're not used to sliding in smaller increments, and it may take a little more pressure to...
  15. Re: Anyone enjoy playing fingerstyle? Downsides?

    This might show some of the potential, although the video quality is poor. The first bit is Zenkl playing the Breedlove 4-string mandola on a slower tune with something akin to a guitar fingerstyle...
  16. Re: Anyone enjoy playing fingerstyle? Downsides?

    As others have said, one issue is volume, but another is the double course strings and the way that interacts with fingernails or bare fingers. There is only one acoustic mandolin family instrument...
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    Re: great sound on an octave

    Very nice playing!

    Although I can't help noticing that she left out the fourth part of the Monaghan Jig on that Mandolin Monday's clip, which is common in most settings. I play that tune on flute...
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    Re: What is your favorite Chris Thile quote?

    I remember one quote from, I think, his early instructional DVD where he looked so young on the cover. He said (paraphrasing) that you should try to figure out where the important phrases are in a...
  19. Re: Do instruments appreciate in value over time?

    Looking through my (now much reduced) instrument collection, all high quality stuff, I think the only one that might be sold for more than I paid for it is an eight-keyed "Irish" flute. And that's...
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    Re: The After life of trees

    Reverence for the wood is a fine thing. One reason I've never looked for another mandolin after buying my first one, is that the luthier -- Jiri Lebeda in the Czech Republic -- used Redwood from the...
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    Re: String set with best treble response

    I'll second Adrian's comment about E strings being basically the same from the various brands, so I wouldn't be looking there for a fix. The differences are in the wound strings.

    You said your...
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    Re: Mandola DAEB tuning for TIM?

    I owned a Breedlove "Zenkl model" mandola for a few years, designed for fingerstyle playing with four strings. I bought it because I thought I might play a bit of jazz on it, but fell down the...
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    Re: Why is bluegrass played so fast?

    I don't think this is a controversial take, but maybe it is. Anyway, I think Bluegrss is played fast because it's performance music; stage music, designed to excite an audience that is listening but...
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    Re: Playing at outside wedding

    I spent a couple of years doing wedding gigs on mandolin as a duo with a guitar player. Mostly with our compact PA or sometimes even two PA setups at different parts of the venue, but we did several...
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    Re: Thinking Of Altering Mando

    I agree that it will most likely lower the value, and it's the kind of thing you do when you love the instrument and know you're going to keep it for years.

    FWIW, I removed the finish from the...
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