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    Re: Obessed with the tenor banjo

    Sorry, Amanda, you're in deep; you're a goner. I was gifted a beat up 1925 Bacon "Peerless" before Covid. I got it fixed up and spent a lot of Covid time with the Enda Scahill book (Hmm, I'm wearing...
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    Re: Robin Williamson mandolin

    I taught myself mandolin using Jack Tottle's Bluegrass Mandolin Book along with my Robin Williamson's EWSI Fiddle Tune book, with the black record, which I still have. As a fifer, I pretty much knew...
  3. Re: Confusion about Bozeman Flatirons A -2 versus Performer

    My 1996 Flatiron was listed as an A5-Performer when I bought it new at the Homestead Picking Parlor in Minneapolis. I had seen a nice used A5-Artist at Gruehn's in Nashville I liked. I figured a...
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    Re: ABCnotation.com Harmony and V:2

    Hi Simon, there must have been a bunch of problems at the abcnotation.com site over the past week, but it seems to be fine now. I went to the site, typed V:2 into the tune search box, and in less...
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    Re: The best mandolin straps?

    I'm with renoyd, I still like the embroidered cloth Souldier strap I bought years ago. ( https://www.souldier.us/MANDOLINSTRAP.aspx ) It is soft, comfortable, attractive, and the cloth provides good...
  6. Poll: Re: Just starting out -- Should I really learn to "read music"?

    R0gue, let me sneak in another, different nifty idea in favor of being able to read music. If you have more than one person playing a similar instrument, that introduces the idea of second parts and...
  7. Re: Zoom lessons, and no sound? "Original sound for musicians"

    Two more things we have found useful on Zoom jams after you have ensured "original sound" is indeed ON.

    The first helps cure someone who starts playing and volume is good, but eventually gets...
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    Re: Jack Tottle's book

    Bought it in college in 1978 or so, taught myself mandolin with it. At one point, after much painful brute force practice, I could play a passable, but sedate, version of the cross-picking Home Sweet...
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    Re: Original Bluegrass/Oldtime Tunes in "Bb"

    Wally Traugott was one Canada’s highest paid fiddlers in the 1950’s and 1960’s, but he became disenchanted with the Canadian music scene and record companies. He moved to the US and became a...
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    Re: Original Bluegrass/Oldtime Tunes in "Bb"

    If an original tune that slides into Bb for two measures meets your criteria, Wally Traugott's "Snowflake Breakdown" will fill the bill and truly give your guitar player conniption fits the first...
  11. Thread: Tunes in "F"

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    Re: Tunes in "F"

    Of all the variations and versions of Blackberry Blossom out there, Frank Wakefield's version in F from his album "That Was Now, This is Then" is my all-time favorite. To be honest, it is probably...
  12. Re: What is Your “ Go To” Source for Music Theory Information?

    I ran out of "real" classes in high school by my senior year and actually took a class on music theory. It was great, I learned a lot of neat things, but like many things I learned in high school,...
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    Re: Who is Stangeland?

    Years ago I realized the most of the really good TablEdit TEF files on Mandozine and on the web had Mike's name on it, so when I found his website at http://www.kimandmikeontheroad.com/ I sent him a...
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    Re: Eyeglasses for Reading Sheet Music

    I was born with really sharp vision, something like 20/12. However, after the eye strain of engineering school and only a few years after flight training, my eyesight decided to go the way of...
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    Re: counting - quaver , crotchet.....?

    While it's not actually counting, I tried to see what common tune has that rythmn, and the one song that just kept coming back is the first two lines of that classic:

    Something familiar
    Something...
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    Re: Elizabethan Serenade (Ronald Binge)

    Hi Martin,
    I think you did a very nice job tweaking your arrangement, it flows better and is very evocative of the original. I've loved this song ever since hearing it on the radio as a child in...
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    Re: English fiddling essay (no mando)

    As someone who started fiddling because they wanted to sound just like David Swarbrick (I wish) and who can barely utter the words "last time through" while playing without the whole shebang coming...
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    Re: Golden Gate Guitar Picks

    As someone who has used both Dawg and Golden Gate mandolin picks for years, I was curious to see what these were like, and yes, that link was severely busted.
    Try this one:
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    Re: Help! Drowned out by fiddles!

    I played mandolin at beginner Irish sessions till my fiddle playing got semi-decent. Then I was gifted with a beat up old tenor banjo, which I had brought up to snuff in GDAE tuning. I enjoy playing...
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    Re: What artist/album got you started with Trad

    Jim, I read that there is a session in Australia where the Robin Williamson's version of Rights of Man is the version that session plays--I want to play at that session; it takes everything in me to...
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    Re: What artist/album got you started with Trad

    I took violin lessons in first grade, but we moved every year and that was as far as my lessons and violin abilities went. In eighth grade, my brother played me his Fairport Convention albums. When I...
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    Re: Flatiron A-5 Artist, 1,500 should I get it?

    The seam sinkage, whatever that truly is, bothers me. If you could get a luthier you know and trust to evaluate that and come with a thumbs up, I'd recommend buying it. To give you an idea of...
  23. Re: Right-hand Exercise Based on Snare Drum Rudiments

    I've been playing fife tunes on mandolin for decades. Now I'm going to have to learn how to play the appropriate beatings on mandolin, I guess. Downfall of Paris should be fun.
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    Re: Mandolin world vs fiddle world

    In response to Doug's very first point, a hearty agreement. The Mandolin Cafe is pretty unique. I will spend way too much time on the Mandolin Cafe when stopping by, but I generally go to a fiddle...
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    Re: Hidden D'Addario Micro Tuners....

    My friends all had D'Addario violin micro tuners for their fiddles, so I bought one and tried it on my fiddle. I disliked it intensely, it just seemed to always be in the way while I played or just...
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