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This is one of the great American novels.
In an early chapter Miss Lonelyhearts (his personal name is never mentioned) ruminates on how mandolins are tuned.
"Man has a tropism for order. Keys in...

Kate Wolf was another talent that was taken from us all too soon. She’s a staple in my music library and “Like A River” (the studio version) came up this morning. Thought I’d share a live version...

LOVE IT!!

You might want to also check out this video.

https://youtu.be/1kvlbtqgmPo

Hasn’t there been a thread on this already?

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You're on a good track, because you are thinking about training your fingers to use a more efficient method ... i.e. when to hold a note position and when not.

But also, I think there is a pitfall...

This has minimal mandolin content, but I have noticed that there seem to be a fair number of people here who share their homes with cats (ie. pages and pages of cats sitting in cases :)), cats in...

I learned a trick right here on Mandolin Cafe that solves the stringing problem. Bend the string end slightly on the loop with your thumb nail. That creates a little spring action onto the tailpiece...

You could also weld the loop to the pin and then there would be no way it could slip off!

We’re not talking rocket science here, its only a mandolin tailpiece. Yes, you can use a capo, you can use...

I strung my uke like a CGDA mandola, but the strings were too tight, so I tuned down a tone. Fun to play.


https://youtu.be/RmGrb-ulNMY

I searched for this on the cafe and there doesn't seem to be a resource for learning about black mandolinists of past and present. I dug up what I could, but would love to learn more. Here is what...

97% of statistics are made up on the spot. ;)

I really do not know how people get bored if they have a hobby, can read, enjoy physical activity, cook, and have yard work and housework to do. And yet, thousands of people are complaining about...

Observing brain activity and comparing experts with novices, players' improvising was recorded and graded by other experts. The level of creativity was judged and compared with activity in left or...

Chris Brashear, "The Day Coronavirus Came"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78BRNm-ZjnM

I think it is time to close this thread as we have clearly wandered into politics.

I don't care if people pretend to be experts about mandolins here, but the people posting medical claims and now...

Statements of fact about the future are never wise IME, especially when the data is far from settled.

I'd rather be careful and wrong than ignore it and be wrong.

Given it's about to be spring...

Tone-Gard YES:
Chris Thile
Ronnie McCoury
David Grisman
Ricky Skaggs

Tone-Gard NO:
Sam Bush
Sharon Gilchrist
Marty Stuart

Christine, most baritone ukuleles are designed to use quite low tension strings around 50lb those thomasik strings are way over that!
My test show 67lb total!
It is quite easy and cheap to set up a...

Like many members of this forum I have experimented a great deal with strings looking for the "holy grail" of tone, play-ability and enough volume for playing with others. The abundance of reasonably...

As a teenager (I didn't start my attempts at playing until I was 16) my obsession with music was most beneficial to me in that it kept me away from the drinking and drugs that my friends were...

I really like the colors, angle of my MT in this pic. It checks all the boxes.


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I wanted to post a simple example of how I arrange a tune, involving improv and tools that I know how to use...

We're in a season that uses a lot of tunes for celebration that we don't usually...

My favored approach involves placing the string loop over the peg in the tailpiece, then stretching it under light hand tension, straight over the bridge and nut, and winding it several times (2-4)...

Spread that equine fertilizer Ralph....

For a better understanding I could refer to the first couple of paragraphs in the introduction of Jerry Coker's "Patterns For Jazz" (a book I've used over...

There can be little doubt that natural talent for music exists. One only has to consider child prodigies for this phenomenon to be abundantly clear, but there are numerous other examples in history...