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In the states. It was a piper who was a former Bluegrass banjo player, so it makes sense...

I picked up the term at an Irish session. This was about 25 years ago when I was still a little fresh on the fiddle and it was gently suggested that I might woodshed a little bit. I had to ask what...

Sounds like Sam Z.

The company was started by a fella named Dana Bourgeois.

I'm not sure if it will settle it permanently. Other cafe members have received replies from Mapes staff that contradict this one...

I based my post on a previous email to them.

The moonshine is code for their coating. I'm not sure if the unwound strings are coated or not though.

Mapes offers 80/20s, and they're coated.

Just my local festival right here in town. Ossipee Valley Music Festival. I'm doing the week long string camp that kicks it off too. Good bookings this year! Sadly, it's the only one I can afford to...

A 272 is a good instrument for the price point. I got one in January because I have an F5 and an A5 but was lacking an oval hole and didn't have a big budget. I've been satisfied.

Very nice! That's the one that's on my wishlist.

Dunning-Kruger?

Truth! I'm in the hate 'em category myself, but I don't judge anyone who loves them. That's what's great about having asthetic options.

I can see it now "The Dirty Lew",oil on canvas...🤣

And on the mandolin side of things, John Reischman and the Jaybirds recorded it as well on the Stellar Jays album.

It seems like there are many people so close and yet so far! I'm near the NH/ME line in Maine but it's sadly a bit of a haul to Lincoln.

Personally, I would love to own an N5S but it's out of my price point for a good while.

Thanks, that jibes with what I was thinking, but not sure about.

I doubt it too, I'm just curious as to why the difference in size exists in the D'Addario version. Like if it's to decrease bass response or something. Just seems weird considering that every other...

Some ways back I ordered some nickel plated steel strings on an order from Mapes (along with an equal number of PB). Not thinking there was any difference, I ordered both with the standard 40-11...

Definitely, she's very talented. And I do love the fiddle and concertina as a duet form.

Double stops of course are an entirely different matter! I couldn't agree more.

Speaking for myself, I prefer my Irish trad served guitar-less. Mainly for this reason.

On a pedantic level, the term "pure drop" means a truly traditional form in ITM parlance, which means only melody instruments since accompaniment by chording instruments is a later 20th century...

I'm not the best w/ chord theory and whatnot (when it comes to trad, I'm mainly playing the fiddle), but I would say that that I agree with the idea of not always playing the 3rd or all notes of the...