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I've been primarily self taught for about five years now. I had a teacher a few months ago but he lived 45 minutes away and when the price of gas reached $4 gal, I wasn't able to justify the price of...

Thanks for the info everyone including the fish humor. I flounder that I needed and appreciate your canery.

Anyone know where I can find a picture of a mandolin that looks like a fish? I remember the same builder made a watermelon mandolin.

I wanted to use the fish mandolin photo as an avatar over at a...

Thanks for the info since I could find nothing on the website saying that tents will not be allowed this year. It saved me a 220 mi trip to find out I'm not welcome.

I did call to confirm this...

Watch the guitar player's left hand as he changes chords. Look at a guitar chord chart to see what the chord positions look like. If the guitarist has a capo on the second fret, he is probably in A...

I believe that too many people are led to believe the Murphy Method is an ear training course, which it is not. As Pickloser stated its "verbal tab" and therefore only different in tab or notation in...

I 'm from a different country setting of rural Tucson, AZ in a small modern house with indoor plumbing and a swamp cooler (no A/C). I've heard morning doves cooing, #coyotes howling, rattlesnakes...

Have only one mandolin is like driving a car without a spare. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif

If you want to learn going from basic melodies and move to more sophisticated versions, I recommend John McGann's "Developing Melodic Variations on Fiddle Tunes" Mandolin Editon. John starts with the...

I bought some No-Snagg sinkers for fishing from Bass Pro. It took 10 days sent parcel post. I think DHL is the worst experience I had. I ordered a mandolin which was sent DHL, it took 4 days to...

Actually his book is almost all fiddle tunes with very few bluegrass tunes.

Interesting looking mandolin, especially for the price.

If it doesn't play well for you, you can always do what I did with my first eBay el cheapo. Use it as a wallhanger....

Anyone know how I can contact Thomas Flood, builder of the Floodtone Mandolins?

I have a friend that has a 1914 Vega cylinderback mandolin in need of repair and thought Mr. Flood might be...

Watch Barry Abernathy, banjo player for Mountain Heart. The man has no fingers on his left hand and is the winner of 1997's Banjo Player of the Year award from the Society for the Preservation of...

I think of myself as the "world's worst mandolin player" but others have commented that I'm not that bad. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif #I do play with an oldtime...

Thanks for the replies. They are interesting and valid.

Just to answer a few of questions here. My daughter uses an Incredibow. She is classically trained for 7 years and currently attends a...

So this has some mandolin discussion in it but I'm curious why the sound/tone difference between two mandolins about $1200 apart is better than two violins in the same range.

As a graduation...

Started at 50, now 55

My dad had a hawaiian steel guitar I used to play with when I was a youngster. But I seldom saw him play it.

Things must be too slow around here to have this type of nonsensical negative question.

There is no harm involved with playing the mandolin unless you don't like being introduced by a band mate as...

Great job Niles. I was watching your left hand and now I'm starting to understand what you are doing in "Bluegrass Up the Neck."

I've found the Wegen picks great for tremelo. A few years ago I got the Wegen M150 and have used it ever since until recently.

As I got more into bluegrass and wanted to pull out more volume, I...

We have an agreement in my household, my daughter plays fiddle and I play mandolin. While she is an excellent musician, also plays viola, keyboard, drums and yes, better than me on the mandolin, I...

Did I forgot to mention, that I was invited into the jam in the first place. Now they try to push me out! That's just rude and obnoxious. That why I'll push my way back in. #Granted, I'll not a great...

Born in Clinton, Indiana
Grew up in Tucson, AZ (until my junior year of high school)
Stationed in Washington, DC and Key West, Fla
Attended graduate school in Glendale, AZ
Living in Las Vegas, NV...