The first time I heard Patrick Sky was at my best friend’s house. It was the “folk boom” of the early 1960’s and his older sister opened that world to us. I was learning the guitar and he was...
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The first time I heard Patrick Sky was at my best friend’s house. It was the “folk boom” of the early 1960’s and his older sister opened that world to us. I was learning the guitar and he was...
I was lucky enough to have Pat stay at our house a few times when the East Coast Pipers met in Baltimore. Pat was my guitar hero in the 60s, and to have the chance to spend time with him was a dream...
Remember, it is never about the instrument - only the music.
I think a more interesting question is where is Maybelle's guitar that she developed her style on and recorded most of their early sessions with. I watched the documentary mentioned above and read up...
Isn't the pictured Martin guitar the model they still replace the carved top with a flat top so it has usable sound? (Jeff Daniels model)- so I'm not sure where that argument goes
If the bridge is tilted forward the intonation must be off, unless the base of the bridge moved (that wold be weird). It is important to confidently maintain your instrument and removal and...
I have lot of these middle level mandolins, an Eastman 504, a couple of M Kellys that are over 10 years old, a Loar 400, and a 700 (both without tone bars.) I could tell you about the defects of...
I tried many years (too many) fitting them by hand, and while I thought I was getting better, I never fit one as well as with a jig like the SM or the CA designs. Considering the investment is less...
Yes, that is exactly what the Cumberland guys did. but it certainly shouldn't stop there.
Besides playing the mandolin, I play an arch top guitar, so attention to the bridge is a natural interest for me. There is a lot of discussion here about the mandolin bridge, and certainly the...
I have a 1962 Gibson J-45 (Kalamazoo) that was very poorly designed - plywood bridge plate, horrible adjustable bridge, Strangely thick pick guard. I have had all of these things replaced over the...
The moron that runs Gibson thinks that their greatest innovation under him was the self tuning les paul! Who really cares about Gibson at this point - the question is what is happening to the Bozeman...
All great mandolin players have one thing in common. Their armrests are on their furniture.
Problem strings on a mandolin? (A) G (B) D (C) B (D) E (E) ALL
After playing f hole mandolins for years, I bought an eastman 504 after a head stock break. It really doesn't matter what you buy, you just want it to sound like an old gibson, and i'm sure all of...
The are 2 factors here I'm not sure got enough exposure. On is the strength required.if you move from pointed end to the rounded side it requires more force to get the pick through the strings. A...
I just bought a used 125th anniversary parlor guitar - and it looks like someone took all the gold off the case where is said "Washburn". There is still an impression of where it was.
Think pinky. If you have been using your pinky with the bass, keep using it on the Mandolin. If you haven't been,well that's too bad. I think you will find patterns that were weird on an instrument...
I appreciated reading your notes when you posted them and I felt that this was never really an issue as I sand them by hand and try to get close to vetical. - but you thoughts are now certainly part...
I had some contact with Finnish Tunes on the mandolin, and even met Heikki Lahti at the Finnish Folk Festival one year. I still play "Aaltojen Laulu Valssi" as one of my regular tunes. I used to play...
I went from playing F5 style instruments to an A4 style and it certainly changed my rhythm playing. I think the round sound hole style cannot deliver the extra volume proportional to the force you...
I found this in Google Patents since the mic has a reference to a patent.
Number US666677A: Arrangements for obtaining desired frequency or directional characteristics for obtaining desired...
this poses an interesting question - if we take the Gibson "Loar" sound as the ultimate instrument, then I would think that using the methods that sound is based on is what preserves that sound - so...
On Ebony...
I would think that denser ebony would conduct sound better then a less dense ebony or other wood, but with these small items - the CA saddle part is only 4.0 grams, i'm not sure that...
How can anyone play the instrument with pick guards - tone guards - arm rests etc.? There needs to be a "Poser Mandolin Cafe" for hiding behind all this crap, rather than practicing and playing well.