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    Re: Anyone know of a suitable clip-on tuner?

    This is pretty hard with f-holes, which all my mandolins have.

    I use the D'darrio guitar tuner that goes in the hole for my GoldTone MO-880 because the 23 inch scale length means I would have to...
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    Re: Questions regarding the Gibson A Jr

    I have an A5-style mandolin made by a guy in North Carolina named Lackey, that has walnut back and sides. It is my favorite instrument (yes, admission of MAS) and is the sweetest sounding mandolin I...
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    Can I tell the weather with my instruments

    It is rainy today in Houston.

    I have four instruments that I tune every day, an Octave Mandolin, a Mandola, and two Mandolins. Some days the instruments are all a bit sharp, sometimes a bit flat,...
  4. Re: Unknown mandolin player on the BART to Glen Park

    I'm thinking that if you are the sort of person who takes out your mandolin on the subway and starts whacking away at it you might not be the shy and retiring sort. If the mandolinist does in fact...
  5. Re: Unknown mandolin player on the BART to Glen Park

    So at this point we'll just consider my friend and I fugitives, okay?

    Not only does the guy not have any expectation of privacy, he is actually committing a misdemeanor offense by buskering...
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    Our correspondent Vernon Dale Francis Humphrey sent in this photo from the daily commute. Looks like a Kentucky, and I think that is a pretty nice carrying case on his back.

    Strangely...
  7. Re: Best way to learn to play Smooth and Clean (not sloppy)?

    I don't tap that hard, so neighbors would not be a consideration. I don't use a metronome but I believe that it is better, because if I come to a hard passage I tend to change the rhythm to...
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    Re: Case for Eastman MDA315 Mandola

    Around the house I keep mine in one of those upright tree-like hangers that people use for guitars. Always ready to play that way.
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    Case for Eastman MDA315 Mandola

    I recently purchased an MDA315. Not sorry I skipped the 815 edition, except that the 815 comes with a case and the 315 has a gig bag.

    I have therefore been looking for Mandola cases and finding ....
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    Rhythm for reels and western swing

    I sort of hate to admit this, but I have been playing 2.5 years and I just now discovered that when you have a reel and it shows all 8th notes, you aren't supposed to play it that way.

    I had...
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    Re: Pick madness, maybe pick maintenance?

    How the story ended . . . my wife found the pick this afternoon. It was attached to the back side of the headboard of the bed.

    And of course, when I first started to play with it again, I didn't...
  12. Re: strings to use on an old vega cylinder back mando?

    For any instrument without a proper bracing bar in the neck I use GHS Ultralights.
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    Re: Boss TU-03 tuner?

    If you have an iPad, there is a great app called Tunable which is as big as your device. Gives you your tone to the nearest 10th of a cent. You can easily drive yourself crazy with it if you are a...
  14. Thread: Restringing aid

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    Re: Restringing aid

    I restring on my bed. Even so, this looks like a great idea.
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    Re: Arm rest a good aid for begginers?

    I have only been playing about 2.5 years. I have a McClung armrest on all three of my American style mandolins. Would not do without one. On European style mandolins I have never seen one that...
  16. Thread: Pick advice?

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    Re: Pick advice?

    In response to Br1ck I have one rounded Blue Chip and don't like it at all. I suggest CT55. But I think everybody is different.
  17. Thread: Pick advice?

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    Re: Pick advice?

    I second B381. Different mandolins require different picks, so you have to try a bunch to see what you like. You may even find that you like different picks on different days.

    I also have to...
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    Pick madness, maybe pick maintenance?

    I've got 7 mandolins (an obvious case of MAS but that isn't my problem at the moment).

    Three of them are American style, two A5's and an F5. On those, I use EJ74's and my favorite (really only)...
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    Re: Improvement By Thinking.

    I have often written songs in my head, or at least phrases. I don't know if these are actually original works or something I am remembering (and I don't know how anybody can tell the difference on...
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    Note of thanks to Baron Collins-Hill

    Of all the people or sites on the internet that have helped me over the last couple of years, the MandoLessons site really stands out.

    It has a combination of very simple arrangements, each of...
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    Re: Improvement By Thinking.

    I'm with em e e (which so far s I can tell, is impossible to type in this little box). Sometimes I will make up whole tunes in my head, but when I pick up the mandolin I first have to go thru my...
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    Re: Right Hand Technique

    I've been playing for a little over 2 years. I have the closed hand thing down okay, but literally nothing else is right about my right hand. I hold the pick way too tight, and double stops and...
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    Re: Please help! What is this song?

    Thanks to everyone. The Ken Burns idea is a good one, since I have watched the Civil War one a bunch of times, although not in a decade or so.
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    Please help! What is this song?

    I'm including a link to a wav file in my dropbox.

    https://www.dropbox.com/s/i79asov4vtcl9gl/UnknownTune.wav?dl=0

    It is 25.2MB. It is me playing this tune, which just came into my head unbidden...
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    Re: Ukelele tuned like a Mandola

    Yes, that is it. "Concert" ukulele. 31U.

    And of course, being a software developer of more than 40 years, I, like most people, have no idea where the "turn off the auto-correct" button is (even...
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