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30 degrees, approx., with a strap.

I think it was washed ashore after a Viking and a banjo player embarked on a long sea journey - they were never seen again :))

I could dance to that, and that says a lot. :mandosmiley:

Apparently, there's light at the end of that particular tunnel, and more important, there is an end, not just an exit. After almost 20 years, I've given up finding an OM that sounds better than the...

Not forgetting the historic Whiskey before Breakfast challenge here on the Cafe, a concept that eventually led to the Song-a-Week social group.

It is sufficient for me to hum key parts of a tune, abridging difficult jumps is allowed. Nothing for Carnegie Hall, but it's memorization magic.

this piece is forever linked to a German spaghetti kit in my mind...:grin:

https://youtu.be/GDEn_enbE7s

since Irish music is supposed to be played as heard, not as written, the notation is not that important. I have heard all the variations you mentioned and tend to the jig-like one myself. I doubt the...

Yes, but that is not because of the wet box. It's because the box is tuned in equal temperament, while a fiddler likes to have pure fifths for the sake of resonance between strings. Mandolin players...

Right, I've experienced that difference even in Irish sessions. It's an ambivalence normally reserved for banjo players.

Even if the strings would be picked exactly synchronously, they'd be out of sync after, say, 100 oscillations, i.e. after less than one second. If they are long enough and close enough together...

I am. Exactly my cup of tea.

two oscillations with slightly apart frequencies produce one oscillation with a tone frequency between the two and an enveloping volume modulation (pulse) whose frequency is equal to the difference...

There was a moment when I considered buying what I could from Roger Bucknall while it was easy.
But in the end I decided that I would not let my financial timing be controlled by a PM who cannot...

What? Can you post an example of something played in this tuning?[/QUOTE]

I do everything in wet tuning. But the OM lends itself to it much easier than the mandolin.

I like that lonely A-style among all the bowlbacks.

now I get it - it's yet another banjo joke...

"all the tunes"? Memory needs concentration. Do not play 10 tunes from tab, but play one from ear over and over, until it haunts you and you hum it in your sleep. When you reach that point of not...

The first question occurring to me is What Are the Properties of Giraffe Bone that Make It a Desirable Nut Material? - and frankly, I guess there are none, which makes any other question about it...

seeing the wooden-eyed pirate of the Caribbeans playing a guitar alone is worth it :))

A Viking variation on the theme...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnDLNSoOuoQ

Haha, but is anybody playing it? :grin:

The perfect instrument is exactly the one that makes the player happy.

The perfect instrument would not accept anything less than a perfect player. Anybody couldn't help but spoil it all by playing something stupid.

I could say a lot about the benefits in getting used to playing for your worst critic, i.e yourself, but I found a Tee shirt that says it all.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRtEhAq7xP8

Yes, it's neither F nor banjo, it's a log cabin.

And the zero-pressure construction of the bridge indeed seems to indicate that the top plate might be thin and without bracing - OK, it's a log...