I'm going to say it's based on what the individual prefers and what their situation looks like.
Me, for example, I play solo or with my husband. I cover mandola and octave mandolin; he has vocals...
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I'm going to say it's based on what the individual prefers and what their situation looks like.
Me, for example, I play solo or with my husband. I cover mandola and octave mandolin; he has vocals...
Huh... so... BlueChips are not actually blue. Did not know that.
If you're on mandolin and she plays chords on the mandola/tenor, basically, any sheet music that you can read that lists the chords will work. That's easy enough to find.
The reverse can be...
Agreed -- plenty of semi-rigid gig bags can be had if you venture into the ukulele world. I went with Fusion:...
G on the mandola
D on the mandolin
Which leads me to wonder if it has to do with position/mechanics or... not sure how to describe this... where the tones lay in relation to the others within...
My main instrument is the mandola. But I certainly wouldn't call myself a professional by any means and I definitely hope there aren't any videos of me playing it out there!
In terms of written...
Yes, I had a set where the loop ends unwound as I attempted to tune it up. At first, I couldn't figure what was going on. I'd get a string up to pitch, then it would go flat, then very flat much too...
Great; thanks.
I play CGDA and have 30-some years of reading sheet music where middle-c is right there in the middle. If you have software to transpose treble to alto, that would be brilliant.
Wait... what... Just spotted this post now.
Any room for a mandola?
Or viola...
One made my Peter Coombe. It managed to fit my hands just right and produced the tone I was looking for.
I've been back a few times since. There was an amazing Vega lute mandola there for a bit....
I auditioned a few mandolas at Elderly. I found the Collings (there was an MT and an MT2 - 2 of one and 1 of the other when I was there) to be too bright for me. Not sure if the brightness could have...
Choosing the mandolin over other instruments?
Well... I played viola since 4th grade so I was quite familiar with all that goes along with that. But all the fidgety little things about it started...
It's pronounced "fiddle"
I ran across Dominique Riviere's Foggy Dew (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4f7voIo-XU&fmt=18) some months ago and have taken a liking to his arrangements - a number of which he's posted on his...
Ah heck... What can I say? Lefty was in charge of (mis)typing those letters ;)
My history of playing the viola, tells me that right (bow) hand has the harder job - getting the bow placed just right parallel to the bridge, but neither too far from it nor close to it; the angle...
Okay, I'll bite. Changing out a strap improved the tone of my mandolin. After changing, I no longer needed to hold the mandolin in place whilst fretting and picking. And, with the strings running...
Strikes me that this might be an area where the answer depends a lot on the individual's experience and body mechanics.
For example, Jeff noted
I have the opposite experience: a double-stop or...
The low tech non-memory solution is: choose whatever stand you want, play in daylight, and use clothespins to hold your sheet music in place.
How about the Hora mandolin? I have the mandola version...seems pretty sturdily made, has managed to survive the past 1.5 years being dragged in and out of the home in freezing and sweltering temps...
Naw... you're cool. Much like a viola, the mandola is a superior instrument to its smaller, higher-pitched cousin.
There's no need for that high e-string. Entirely unnecessary.
Didn't have a chance to pick up supplies over the weekend. So hanging on to the sock for now ;) A real thing of beauty.
Thanks All. I didn't have the right materials at hand last night, so I wove a sock through the strings between the bridge and tailpiece. It did cut down on the unpleasant noise, though not entirely. ...
I have a Rogue mandolin – the inexpensive one that comes as part of the mandolin / guitar two-fer deal. It’s an endearing little sprite of a thing that’s easy to fret and, initially, sounds okay. But...