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Mandolin Mick, I think I will paraphrase your description of bluegrass for the rest of my life. Especially when my banjo friends are around.

I'll admit that I did not read pages 2 and beyond on this thread but I wanted to add something about blues all sounding the same. I recently took a topics class on Duke Ellington and realized the...

Ha ha! This thread makes me laugh. I live with two guitar players and the block we live on is very communal. Our plethora of porch chairs are distributed randomly throughout several houses'...

I knew it was a bad idea to ask :), Oh well maybe a used one will find it's way into my price range one day far along the line when I have some sort of real income source. I gotta say though, after...

I'm almost scared to know the answer to this and I didn't find it with a search of this board but I'm very curious to know how much money one might expect to part with for a Dudenbostel. I just read...

Wow, thanks guys, great responses. I am still definitely considering the trade. I was hoping to get some money for my old mandolin but the trade prospect is pretty enticing. I had another offer...

So I've put my Morgan Monroe MMS-2 up on craigslist for sale. The other day I received an offer for trade. He's offering a 1920's epiphone tenor banjo. I'm pretty unfamiliar with this instrument...

I have a K&k mandolin twin on my Eastman and it is great. I paid $200 for a fishman bridge style pickup and I really disliked it. I sold it on ebay and then bought the K&K which was very cheap and...

I've just been looking at the arpeggio exercises from the Chris Thile DVD again. They are very melodic sounding and would be very useful if they could played as second nature. The pattern goes up...

MoBob,

You can download the program entirely online or request that a CD be mailed to you. I think you can do both also. If I'm not mistaken you can download it and then have a backup version...

I believe it was a Tuesday in March that they mentioned when talking about the new album. They might have mentioned the date but I don't remember it. Apparently my mandolin teacher hung out with...

I play in a rock band where we always play 95% originals. With that group that is definitely the goal, to be known for our own material. We do play covers but we pick pretty obscure covers that...

I just saw The Punch Brothers last night in Charlottesville, VA. This was pretty much my first exposure to them at all and I was amazed. I didn't really know what to expect and it turned out to be...

Oh awesome and thank you. I did realize after I posted that you never actually said that you had a Tim O'brien book, I'll look at that link right away.

I just recently got a Blue Chip. The picks I used beforehand are the big triangle 1.14 dunlops. About two months ago I got the CT 55 from Blue Chip. I still prefer the tone that I got with the...

I recently recieved the Chris Thile instructional DVD for Christmas. He goes over some arpeggio excercises in it. They are a little classical oriented but seem highly useful. He also has some very...

Chords are my biggest obstacle in transcribing (probably similar for most folks). Your average fiddle tune isn't too bad but more complex tunes like Grisman, Flinner, Tony Rice etc. have some chord...

Yeah, I was surprised that I ended up buying that program. I took a jazz improvisation class from a sax (and piano) player named Skip Gailes. He repeatedly told the class that the ASD was the best...

Since I started this thread, I found out that my neighbor has a violin that she isn't using. As of now I have a violin on loan indefinitely. It seems to be a decent instrument, but you wouldn't...

Does anyone else use this great little program? If you dont know what it is, it basically slows down (or speeds up) music without altering the pitch, making transcribing infinitely easier. You can...

We play mostly bars and restaurants, but we have played some venues through a booking agency a few times and we may have had some sort of contract then. We've played two small festivals, one was so...

I've recently added the four albums I got for Christmas:
Matt Flinner: Latitdue
Bela Fleck: Drive
Bryon Sutton and Friends: Almost Live
Sam Bush: Late as Usual

also
Tom Waits: Glitter and...

I bought my first and second mandolins unplayed. First a rover...it got me started, then a Morgan Monroe from folkofthewood, which I loved but eventually I craved more. Purchased an Eastman after...

I didn't touch a mandolin until my ebay rover arrived in the mail 11 years ago. At the time I really loved Yonder Mountain String Band and I think (?) that's why I wanted one. Nowadays though, I...

Based on the reply above stating that with a fiddle, you are in charge of everything, it would seem to me that a good bow would be very important. I know that using rosin on your bow is important as...