Good choice with the Northfield. It's good to have a mandolin that has a voice with power and depth. It will help inspire you.
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Good choice with the Northfield. It's good to have a mandolin that has a voice with power and depth. It will help inspire you.
Forgive me Mandolin Cafe Forum for I have sinned and recently purchased a used Derrington MM. Weird though, I don't feel guilty.
With that thought I'm bringing this back bcuz it's so damned funny....
I'm seeing Sasquatch.
A friend of mine who lives nearby owns a beat up Nugget F5. It has tone for days and some badass projection. Almost unreal.
I learned Leather Britches from John Reischman at a music camp in 1992. It's still one of my warm up tunes. A great one to get your picking hand in order.
If I did buy one the first thing I'd do is remove that ridiculous pick guard.
In my experience there's a sweet spot of being buzzed, warmed up and playing freely. The trick is not imbibing yourself past that sweet spot into incoherence.
It's been my experience that a lot of instrument cases could be unlocked with a simple twist of a small or medium sized screwdriver.
Perhaps not with higher end cases.
I once saw a harp ukulele at the La Conner guitar festival.
Here's the really bad photo I took of it.210058
What in the dickens are these "packages" which, according to the website, supposedly have odor?
I've mostly been a buyer on Reverb. Years ago I listed a lightly used 2015 D-18. There were no scammers but the low-baller trolls were thick. Many low-ball offers.
The worst one was a lowball of...
I use a free app called InsTune on iOS. It's chromatic so I use it with guitar and mandolin. It's accurate with an easy to use interface. An excellent app for tuning in a quiet space like your living...
I reshaped a tortoise shell pick using wet/dry carborundum sand paper in a shallow baking tray filled with about 1/2 inch of water.
Use a pulling motion across the sand paper. I used 200 and 400...
Those prices should keep the riff raff out.
Pardon me while I go to...Smell the Glove.
"As always Mark Demaray did a fabulous job curating the Vintage Instruments Workshop sponsored by Jason Verlinde's Fretboard Journal..... & new strings provided by D'addario. Matt Flinner & Darrell...
I'm late to this thread. I was there for Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
I was amused by the designated jam spots at the Westin. So inspiring!
I think the board of directors need to read the room when...
I recently did some work on the saddle of my Gibson and had all the strings off so I took the opportunity to clean the fretboard. I used a microfiber cloth sprayed sparingly with Murphy's Oil Soap. I...
Love Bug trailer with picnic table, umbrella, coleman lantern, beer cooler.
I own one of each. (see signature) I love them both. The Gibson is sweeter sounding in a way. It has the high lonesome sound in spades. It will produce a great old timey tremolo which sounds spot on...
I love the design of the body. Very cool. They look like they're built by a pro.
Awesome job.
A beautiful mandolin to be sure. Elegant is a good word for it. I wonder about the uncompensated saddle though. It could be a tuning nightmare.
I had a cheaper mandolin in my beginner days that...
A similar thing happened to me while tuning up a monel set of D'Addario strings. One of the e strings broke.
I emailed a photo of the string and it's packaging and they sent me two e strings and...
The seller might be in "sirius" trouble with a loan shark and they need 25 large real quick.
I think almost any phosphor-bronze string will give you more projection. A popular type with mandolin players is the D'Addario EJ74s. They might be beefier than you'd want. You could try the EJ73 for...