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I'm pretty sure there's music or tab somewhere here on the cafe. I learned how to play it awhile back, and if I remember correctly, that's how I learned.

Congrats! You're going to love it.

I put a Cumberland Acoustics bridge and a Tone-Gard on my Quartz FF, and I, to this day, still think it's the best sounding mandolin I've ever played.

One of the best ways I've learned to play chord melodies has been by sitting down with my favorite recordings (not necessarily with, and often without mandolin content) and trying to play the vocal...

This could be really cool (not that it isn't already) with some more hardcore statistical analysis. Analyses of Variance and whatnot.

Howdy cafe-ers,

I'm in Austin all week for SXSW, and I was wondering:

Does anybody know of any good (preferably free) bluegrass shows going on this week? Or any genre with some good mando...

Don't count yourself out yet!

At the advice of many people here, I bought the best mandolin I could afford comfortably (maybe not so comfortably in my case), and I couldn't be happier with it. I'm...

:)) I laugh at the anecdote remembering that I used to be that guy when I first started performing... :redface:

But you're right it kind of seems as if now I don't take in ANY visual stimuli when...

Hmm I didn't think about it that way. Maybe that whole "hand watching" thing is an extraneous variable. And me playing better last night was passing the plateau... Maybe I should have cherished the...

Definitely. I guess I should have mentioned that I got a similar positive result when I played with my eyes closed, or stared off into space, etc.

Howdy cafe-ers,

So recently I had been in a slump... To the point where I felt like I actually got worse. My playing had been sloppy and choppy, and basically just less fluid as a whole,...

Look for Mike Marshall's "Book of Fingerbusters"
It has all of the left and right hand coordination exercises you could dream of.

Just looked, and it's in stock at Elderly....

There's a "Mandola's Italian Cafe" in Austin....
Does that count?

EDIT: just realized Caleb posted above that it used to be in Arlington, TX. Neat

95% of people report that they believe they're better than average drivers.
And something like 99.5% of people think they're better than average friends!

I can't speak for the rest of the world, but bluegrass instrumentation (especially the banjo) is getting pretty popular here in Austin.

People who would have never associated with the genre are...

Sorry for the double post, but I got caught up while typing.

My point in saying all of the above is that I don't think you have to specifically allot time for one instrument or the other....

Howdy, GuitarDogs!

I've been playing guitar, for 13 years, and just recently (6 months ago) started playing mandolin to improve my right hand technique.

So thats why I started... But Somewhere...

Had someone today ask me if I was going to play uke or just stick to guitar at my show Friday...

I went to go buy the book/music, and I can't find it anywhere. Completely sold out! And not available for months!

It wasn't released that long ago was it?

I heard the same thing from a store owner and dealer who had recently been to the factory.

Not saying this is true, or confirmed or not, but he said that they hadn't been making them for a few...

Is there any software along these same lines that is offered for free?
Or at the bare minimum, a free program that can cut temp while retaining pitch?

I'm the fellow who likes multidon's FF very much, and honestly (NFI) I can't speak highly enough of the quality of my Breedlove, ESPECIALLY at the price-point of the 2012's on sale right now.
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Right, I thought it sounded TERRIBLE in the de-humidified room.
And it's funny you mention cold, I've always thought my mandolin sounded more 'woody' when I take it out on the balcony in the cold....

FWIW I went home to see my family this past week for Thanksgiving, and spent a lot of time playing in a room with a DE-humidifier...

The timbre change was drastic, (in the negative direction) to...

Congratulations to Bruce, the immediate Weber family, and the extended Weber instruments family!
Big things happening. I'm sure you guys are excited.

To this day I think the best sounding...

If you've got a grand, (and if that flatiron doesn't work out) definitely consider getting a used Breedlove! You can get a used FF for around $1,000 and they are spectacular sounding mandolins. I was...