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Sorry to read of your dilemma journeybear and I can commiserate since we went through a similar episode several years ago. I had inadvertently hauled some bedbugs home to our bedroom from an...

Congrats on the catch!

That looks like the Weber model that Jeff Spirko of Southern Gothic uses. Example below. You need to learn some Cajun music now.
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Interesting thread. I should check out this portion of the Cafe more often.

Back when I was a grad student in Forest Engineering at Oregon State (or is it Oregon-State?), I wrote a paper reporting...

Summertime
Barnyard Dance
Lazy Bones

With lyrics

MattMN

I am also in MN. Private message sent.

Now that the summer outdoor season is upon us, I bought a pair of those wrist sweat bands that basketball players use. I got the idea after a sweaty, 2-hour farmers market gig last summer, and just...

No arm rest, no pickguard, no toneguard.

The mandolinist is David Holodiloff, who is in California. He has some other great videos out there. Here is one that I have played quite a few times.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl6ACp_x_kM

If you think that's bad, you should see how bad the riots are from the 12-string guitarists, and sitar players. And harpists, OMG!!

Wow! I had never heard of her before. Thanks for posting.

For the record, the second song is "Sunny Side of the Street". Easily confused with "Keep on the Sunny Side" (a Carter family song), and...

Sam Bush and David Grisman. This was in the mid 1970s.

Now, my main inspirations are Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli. I have moved beyond copying mandolinists to trying to copy whomever...

This is what Matt Flinner is already doing with former students of his online classes. He uses ZOOM and mutes everyone but himself. He sends music ahead of time for us to download. He will play the...

Yes, when Teak decided to start using his real name, I got his mandolin. :))

Yes, Chris, if you are interested by all means go and update the Mike Black serial number thread....

And using the associative property, mandolinists are better than guitarists. We deserve more expensive instruments. :mandosmiley:

My RM-1 had the hot plate when I bought it used. I am not sure the need for the plug in because it is LOUD even played "acoustically". I have run it into my Carvin amp and the plugged in volume...

Wait a minute. I have listened to this before. Someone with the handle "colorado_al" posted a link to this back in January.

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/143279-Chez-Coucou-New-EP
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Cool. Do you have any recorded examples for us to hear?

Yeah, "tinky tinky" was my poor and off-the-cuff attempt to express how the timbre of stringed instruments is too similar to be clearly distinguished as opposed to the timbre of the different horn...

With all due respect, David, I think the main question that Jim Nollman had was regarding "collective improv" or "simultaneous improv" whereby several instruments are playing solos at the same time....

Well, the last "jam" that I attended had two guitarists playing over the top of my solo even though I had given each space to take their own solos earlier. It wasn't pretty and you should be glad it...

The D'Addario Nickel Bronze strings have become my strings of choice. They last longer (i.e., remain bright) than the Phosphor Bronze and are more economical even given the price difference. They...

I also own a National RM1. Those are LOUD, so I think that comfort is the primary concern, not getting more downward pressure to increase volume. Any louder and no one will want to stand across from...

I hear you, Jim, but sorry that I can't help you. If a song is in Bb or Eb, my trio pretty much plays it in that key since I am usually the one singing the lyrics and flat keys fit my vocal range...

Thanks for posting the interview! It brought me back to Memory Lane.

I bought my first mandolin in Missoula, MT, when I was studying at the U of M. It was a $60 beater. Two years later after...