Nova Scotia is the primary home to Celtic music outside the British Isles, and it was in fact one of the charms that drew me here. I felt in love with Celtic music decades ago and have played Irish...
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Nova Scotia is the primary home to Celtic music outside the British Isles, and it was in fact one of the charms that drew me here. I felt in love with Celtic music decades ago and have played Irish...
About the armrest, it seems to me you could take a typical mandolin armrest, attach a small plate of wood to the brace and use hide glue to affix it to the side of the mandolin. That way, it's good...
So, Friday I called GHS to get the skinny. If you go to the GHS website and look under Products/Acoustics, you will see at the top of the page a link to a pdf of relating formulae and data to...
The easiest way to do this comparison was to just look them up for guitar and compare them to PB strings. Turns out the S&S strings actually have a significantly higher tension than PB strings. The...
Does anyone know what the actual tension of GHS S&S strings is? Their site says the tension is lower than other strings, but their site also does not say what the actual tension is. It certainly...
I keep my picks in a Spiderman webslinger, so I can just shoot them into my hand whenever I need one.
In Europe, classical mandolinists are fond of softer picks, like the Wolle, which minimize clicking. I like them but they are expensive in Canada--about $5 CAN each plus S&H. But I have found a...
I always kept my hand floating, a habit from my days playing the Celtic harp and fiddle, and I maintained it when I started the mandolin. But I found one day, after adding a Tone-Gard and an...
I had good luck with my KM 272 that I got through Amazon, but I ordered a tenor guitar from them once and it was trashed when it arrived. As you said, the return was easy, but it's always a crap...
I usually like d'Addario, so that's a good place to start. Amazon had a great price on 80/20 and PB, so I got a couple packets of each. I wish I could get Silk & Steel or Silk & Bronze, but while...
I love flat tops. I wish I had caught the Y2K in the days Weber was making them.
James at Red Valley recommended lights and ultra-lights. He liked SIT strings. I have only been able to find SIT strings in the USA so far, so I am trying to find an option I can buy in Canada...
I have recently commissioned a Red Valley wide, deep body mandolin. Being a flat top mandolin, it will do best with light or extra light strings. Recommendations?
Seamus, if you are in North America, take a took at the Red Valley AMW. It was built with ITM in mind. I fell in love with the sound of them and have recently commissioned one. The maker, James,...
TMS said Kentucky is always tweaking the instruments. Best guess I can make is I have one with a larger than average body. Which, while I am glad about that, means that my review might be...
Flat body mandolins are very traditional for Celtic music and I love the tone of my flat bodied Garrison OM. I also love the look of the flat bodies with round holes, and the warmth and sustain. ...
Interesting. I triple checked that since I recently commissioned a mandolin from Red Valley and wanted to emulate the very comfortable feel of the 272. The nut is definitely 1.25 inches on mine.
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I had almost commissioned a M-11 jumbo but I heard the sound body was only 10.5 inches wide, and just a hair deeper than an ordinary mandolin. Didn't seem to be enough difference for me to consider...
I thought I would write a little review of this mandolin since I have been playing it a LOT for about 6 months now, and in the last month its tone has begun to change.
I've been playing music a...
Back when we had a musical instrument store, we had to deal with fake buyers all the time. PayPal was a favorite payment venue so to this day I am extremely wary of PayPal and don't even maintain a...
Finally, a use for my mandolin cap!
Given their aggressive history of buying out/shutting down competition, I cannot really feel too bad for them.
Give the Gator hybrid case a try. The foam will remember the shape of your instrument soon enough.
Got a safety tied, for now. I think eventually I'll make a bushing and new pin and fit it in properly.
Mine has only ever slipped out once, during a sudden humidity drop, but I don't like imperfection. I wish the mando world would get past the "because it's traditional" phase and fit these things in...