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Hi there... Prices vary. Three are some excellent makers...I recommend Graham Wright in Newport co Mayo and Ian Knepper in Cork. There's also an excellent mandolin maker near Castlebar in mayo: Brian...

I always thought that the last waltz theme was kind of like the third man theme...some friends of mine played it regularly in a Dublin stringband for years.
I've said it before, Levon is probably...

I'm not familiar w/ that dvd.was that released around the time of "true life blues" sugar hill monroe tribute??? Still available??

And yes, Marty Stuart is a fine mandolin picker. I love the...

my apologies are hereby offered for rolling my eyes in previous reply. I guess it was unfair. In future I will think first. By way of a peace offering here's a damn good definition from an authority...

reinventing old time. now i've heard everything. six pages to describe old time. when is someone gonna stick a fork in this thread? its growin whiskers

besides monroes's version, the best i've ever heard id HANDS DOWN mark graham and tom sauber's on a cd called 'thought i heard that lonesome whistle blow'....its just harmonica and banjo, but really...

i play old time fiddle pretty seriously and I of course tune all the time. I don't bother with the mando so much with the mandolin, though. Part of my reason is that I prefer the sound ogf a standard...

i got it too. a good album. I was tempted to share it w/ friends who have younger kids, but mccoury vocals are not necessarily for general consumption.....

i LOVE them, but then again I love doc...

try the cobblestone, smithfield square in dublin for seriously good irish tunes. Do yourself a favour and try to refrain from referring to "celtic" music though...

i recently bit the bullet and bought one o them 20$ picks. Had to know what all the hub bub was about. I don't like em....very bright. I like the white roundy wegens. Although I use the big Dunlop...

the whole reason I got a mandolin in the first place. Still think of him whenever I play

i feel i must add, because I see Bill is a charango enthusiast. I can't find many people here in Ireland to back appalachian tunes with a guitar (or anything else) there's a few old time players, but...

My impression is that Stephen Foster was indeed a writer of popular songwriter...and one of the most "successful" of his time. This of course didn't mean he was a rich man. I believe he died...

back to the origional question about stephen foster;my band recorded a stephen foster song on each of four cd's.Im pretty sure we play old time.
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check out the ed haley and john morgan salyer backup!!! Mand olin w a capital m.

Mike Compton recently told me that listening to those Ed Haley recordings was where he began to really get in to...

I have a zither style windsor. plunka plunka. Its great for rags and juggy stuff, but mostly not something you want to bring to your local session. Well, nit if you ever want to be welcome again. A...

I suppose that I could pay around with the way I play it. I love the instrument, it may be to do with me as much as the istrument. I find if I play it on the knee, sort of 45 degree angle style, I...

i give up...i've followed instructions...browse, click yadayadayada..... anyhoo the tone alays changes as you move away from the nut (or towards it)... and the tone is a bit aggressive where i can...

trying again

The scale length is 13 7/8 ok.... and as you can see the bridge is a bit further forward. The issue may be the position of the bridge...which would change were there a shorter neck.
sorry about the...

I have a f4 copy which is 15 frets clear of the body. The sides are nearly a quarter inch deeper than the plans called for. The result is an incredibly deep, mandola like bottom end, and clear bell...

i don't know if i "manage" playing more than one. I started withg guitar, and then took the mandolin fairly serious for a lotta years...then into the fiddle...after ten years of that and having begun...

thanks for the help....I'm quite happy playing this mandola as a mandola....it's 17.5, not 17.
Whats more...it sounds beautiful in this tuning.

i know there are threads which have discussed string gauges for mandolas, I;ve seen them but can't seem to find them again. My mandola is 17" and I tune it CGDA...but I wouldn't be averse to trying...

i've only heard a cheepo...a johnson, maybe?? Any chance of a sound clip??
I have a Weymann zither style banjo-mandolin, and I thought it would be good for jigs andreels. Not really. Its great for...