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Thanks for helpful comments and pointers. It’ll get me started. So much to find out about. Fortunately, there’s some time available. Just very sad and concerning as to why we’re all stuck at home at...

Coming from a violin playing background, I can pick tunes on my mandolin, but I don’t know where to start when it comes to strumming chords and maybe singing along.
It may sound ridiculous to most...

Well, at least you're aware of how you're being drawn in...
but isn't it the same with any kind of worship, that the methodolgy can easily become the thing worshiped...whether it be the praise...

Poetry.

An interesting thread...I have wondered about, but not yet tried, tuning my mandolin down to enable me to play with Northumbrian Pipers - who are stuck with their pipes playing in something about...

I went on a coracle making course last autumn, where the 2" wide laths for the framework were bent into shape by being inserted into 2" waste pipe attached to a wallpaper steamer.

Also attended a...

Can one not just use a standard thumb-pick? What's the advantage of replacing the original pick part of a thumb-pick with a regular pick? (I'm asking because I've got no experience of thumb-picks!)

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Similarly, I pedantically struggle with people "boiling kettles." It's the water that is boiled, not the kettle.

(That said, I did once "boil a kettle," or pretty nearly. It was a plastic...

I certainly recognise that syndrome. There should be a name for it. AAS - Aspirational acquisiton syndrome? Cure: your APT (anti-purchasing thinking)

As you say, Explorer, it applies to many...

I browse on Mandocafe quite often, and quite often end up reading fascinating stuff about which I have no understanding whatsoever!

I've just this last weekend steamed some plywood for the first...

This thread set me off internet searching, and I came across a range of Timber Tones Exotic Wooden Picks - different woods, different degrees of hardness (and natural colour). Has anyone used these? ...

So it's not actually him then....oh, wait...

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Interesting to see that tiny hand-held devices have always been something of a distraction, even back in the sixteenth century...she was enjoying her book until he took out his tiny cell-phone!
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The interesting "Slanted nut base" thread prompts me to ask how the action of a mandolin with a zero fret can be lowered?

Obviously in this case no amount of adjustment of the nut will make any...

Thank you Darren. This video will be very encouraging for anyone with the same debilitating problem - very reassuring that all can be well. presumably the pins and needles have stopped as well? ...

I've just returned from a course in which I made a Bohemian Harp for my wife. The first time I've ever made a musical instrument - very satisfying.

The experience has fired me up to consider...

I read that as banana...had to look again, didn't think that could be right...

Just wanted to say that these green mandolins look absolutely stunning!

"Historically, Northumbrian Smallpipes were pitched in G as it was at the time. Since then pitches have risen and those old pipes are now in F#. Attempts were made to lower the pitch to concert F to...

I agree. It is important to preserve one's sense of humour... :)

Plaice, surely? :)

I'd agree, if the mangling is done deliberately, or perhaps from laziness in not checking for typing errors and editing accordingly, as others have said. As an English teacher, I'd want to challenge...

I see that there's a nut slotting gauge available as well...