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I just "linked my account to Facebook." Can someone explain what I just did? :confused:

I was fascinated by the mandolin since I watched Hee Haw as a youngster, but I never figured I could play one. I started on harmonica and whistle as a kid and still jam with them. Stared strings...

Yes, it can be done, but it sounds a little "thin" if all you have is a mandolin. I recorded a couple of gospel tunes that I posted on YouTube recently. And of course you could search YT to see if...

Thanks RW.

Read today that Missouri was third behind only Virginia and Tennesee.

I have often wondered how tunes arrive at their names. Here is what I suppose and I'd like input from some of you with actual facts. I imagine a tune like The Boys of Blue Hill might have been...

Ah, yes, Allen. Dave and Cathy are well known in this region and appear regularly at the local dulcimer club for workshops. They are from Boonville, MO, the site of four CW battles.

You make some good points Cap'n. I recently heard that there were more armed conflicts (everything from skirmishes to full-fledged battles) in Missouri than any other state during the CW.

Awesome! Can't wait to get home and try it out. Thanks Tom.

And tinwhistles for the same reasons.

Allen, I appreciate the info; no need to apologize. I'm just getting into re-enacting myself and you saved me some research time. I need to save a few rubles and look for an inexpensive bowl back...

Thanks for the info Allen.

I found it under "A Brief History of the Mandolin" on this site. It says, "It was in vogue in the 1850s," so there had to be some in the CW camps.

"The mandolin entered the mainstream of popular...

I have read, I think on the History of the Mandolin on this site, that the mandolin was a popular parlor instrument by the early 1850's. It may not have been the most common instrument in CW camps,...

I agree with most of the comments above. My first was a Rogue A-model and it was fine for figuring out whether I'd be able to play and wanted to invest in a decent instrument. I got rid of it in...

LOL! Well, that will remain to be seen. Don't get your hopes up too high!

Fred, WOW!!!!! I employed the methods from your video you posted above and . . . WOW!!!!! What a difference! I think I've had a breakthrough. That right hand technique lets me pick faster...

Thanks for video Fred. It made me realize that I'm wagging my left thumb in the air like a flag. Geez, you can even see it in my profile pic.

Fred, I think you meant it frees up your ring finger to the C and your PINKY finger to hit the A on E string, didn't you?

I guess I form that more like Fred describes. I don't bar across all the...

Ant, I am faaaaar from expert on this. All I can tell you is that I bar that chord form and I don't have the trouble you describe. So, I'd say it must be something else causing it, not the barring...

Just got a toneguard for my Morgan Monroe MMS-4 (Phantom) too and it really makes a difference to my ear anyway. Stonefingers, good move getting the replacement tuners. The ones that came on mine...

I thought so, in my amatuer opinion. You sure don't see many of them though.

Isn't there supposed to be a thin coat of lubricant b/t the post and the inside of the bushing? That's how my new Gotah's came (WITH bushings). If that is the ususal case, then the ID of the...

Let me qualify this by saying that I'm not an experienced reviewer, nor have I had an opportunity to play many manolins, but I thought the community might be interested in hearing about a brand that...

@devilsbox ~ I'll bet you were one of those kids who made his mother go prematurely gray.