Thanks for the comments. I'm not sure I can (1)not store my pick between the strings of my instruments (I'll just lose it) or (2) not flex it every now and again (old habits die hard). I have one...
Type: Posts; User: Colin Braithwaite
Thanks for the comments. I'm not sure I can (1)not store my pick between the strings of my instruments (I'll just lose it) or (2) not flex it every now and again (old habits die hard). I have one...
Here's a weird thing. I've been using the Chris Thile casein picks for a couple of years, hundreds of hours of playing time. Last Friday, at an ad hoc Irish session, I pulled the pick out of the...
My mandola is tuned D,A,E,B and I use a custom set of Newtone strings B: .0135, E: .020 (wound), A: .032, D: .048. All these strings, with the exception of the B are also available from GHS. I play a...
Almost any Irish tune works in this tuning, which is a bit surprising because you're losing the bottom G string. But few Irish tunes go below the low D note, maybe because Irish flutes have the same...
For me, it's the perfect instrument for traditional Irish music if it's retuned D,A,E,B and fitted with a custom set of strings. It puts the high B on an open string (a boon for me with a slightly...
My go-to Irish session instrument now is a mandola, tuned D, A, E, B. This requires a custom set of strings, depending on the scale length of the instrument. So I play Irish tunes an octave below the...
I love a mandola in D,A,E,B tuning for Irish music. It puts the high B note on an open string, and adds a welcome lower voice to a session. It was also (relatively) easy to convert all the Irish...
I play a mandola tuned to D, A, E, B for Irish music. I had to select custom strings for this alternative tuning. My solution is to use the string tension calculator at...
I'm hooked on the mandola for playing Irish session tunes, but I have retuned it D,A,E,B with a custom set of strings. It's an octave lower than the fiddles, but in the same range as the Irish flute....
I recently bought a Weber Hyalite mandola (through the Mandolin Café classifieds) to play in Irish sessions. I was primarily looking for the high B, so common in Irish tunes, to be a bit more...
I have a 1918 Gibson A (it's either an A0 or an A Jr., I think). Frankly, it's a bit of a mess. The grain on the top is very uneven, and it was badly refinished before I bought it in 1976. The back...