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The seller sold it as a "tenor mandolin"

Hi Ray,

All OK thanks. The new website is coming along but slow progress.

A gratuity or tip is given to someone after they have performed a service as a token of one's appreciation for the service. If you do it because it's in the bill already it's not a tip, it's part of...

Cool. I find these personal tales of foreign travel and border crossings utterly fascinating, and terrific reading! That said, I think folks are confounding, at least to some extent, the meanings of...

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I'll have to look into that Ray.

Dave H

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My Grandmother's mandolin arrived back yesterday from John Maddock - it looks and sounds so much better! I am thrilled to be able to play it now. Thanks to Martin Jonas for recommending John....

My mistake, they are Schallers. They still aren't original.

I agree with Jim & Bill. Too often the demonstrators are playing rapid fiddle tune single notes with a few chop chords. It's pretty one dimensional. Yes, some rapid lines are fine. Then some very...

Yes, his playing is impressive but he should drink a few less coffees and intersperse his rapid fire notes with some slower sustained ones so we can truly hear what the mandolin sounds like. I really...

Here's the headstock from that UK auction.

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That is one "wet" tuned mandola!

Thanks Ray, I sit corrected ;)

Len B.
Clearwater, FL

If an acoustic amp (like my Carvin) has a high impedance (HI Z) input, no preamp or DI is needed. I have a RedEye but I only use it when plugging into a system with low impedance input.

I thought all you Kimble fans might enjoy seeing these... 188791188792

Sure. I once saw one of triangular design, a tapering shape with flat top and bottom as well as sides. It was certainly playable and sounded ok in the context of an informal jam.

There's also this...

Otherwise known as the *opposite* of the Dunning-Kruger effect, i.e., 'the less one knows, they less one knows it...'

I did that switch on an MT I had. Perfect hole match. No alteration necessary.

I've owned 5 Eastman mandolins, from the 300 level to the 800 and 900 level. The one that sounded best to me was an MD-505. All instruments vary individually. Eastman is producing high quality...

One thread from a few years ago is here

It looks like it was removed from Facebook Marketplace. Either he got his $25,000 and is rolling giddily around in the cash, or others told him the same thing.

For those who are interested, it was...

Ever since New Dimensions In Banjo & Bluegrass came out in the '60's, Weissberg (a Julliard grad, who was formerly in the Tarriers and an early version of the Greenbriar Boys) has been a major...

The old Forum software has been reinstalled. But I wasn't done meddling just yet. I saw some things in the other version and decided they had their place here so changes have occurred in the...

I contacted Ondrej via Facebook and it is his own design only available on his mandolins now. He is thinking of developing it as a replacement part.

Sorry if I’m not explaining this very well.

I’m trying to learn to read notation but I have other skills that impede this. And I’m actually a bit dyslexic.

Yes ear training is what I’m doing,...