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Reading standard on mandolin is fairly easy especially given the keys we typically play in. Standard notation also presents a visual picture of notes going up or down in pitch. Reading in Eb on a...

I always thought Tim O’Brien does not get enough recognition as one of the great mandolin players. Probably because he’s so talented in all facets of musicianship.

It’s great practice to try and get your instrument in tune with just a tuning fork. I always point to Tony Rice’s tuning demonstration on one of his Homespun lesson tapes. Floors me every time… the...

This site serves as a magazine of sorts but with less advertising. Unless you are going to go to extremes like the Fretboard Journal print is dead. Some print guitar mags seem to still be going...

Fresh sounds

TC Polytune in every case. Be it acoustic guitar, acoustic mandolin, electric guitar, electric mandolin

I just turn the volume down for silent tuning…don’t see the need for a tuning pedal anymore.

Roberto….a fine player and all around nice fella. Though the Big Sciota is missing some harmonic movement (chords).

Happy Birthday Norman!!

Here is a somewhat recent video
https://youtu.be/--kOH4XAMFA?si=gA0-6PHcNDIBNjjp

Lofty praise indeed. Of course there is no “best”.

Billy and Thilly

in case you haven’t seen it, the Billy strings Chris Thilly performance from CBS Sunday morning or was it Saturday? are of high quality

some more Monroe….plenty bluesy but not necessarily 12 bar blues

The Old Mountaineer
Land of Lincoln
Southern Flavor

Electric mandola ala Jimmy Gimble?

Still isn’t there a better way of preventing counterfeits? A line through forever doesn’t seem right.

Yeah I never had a problem with my EJ74s. I suppose string (and pick) experimentation is a minor form of g.a.s. I did just read something interesting on another forum. Someone paraphrased Tommy...

So how is everybody liking their Stringjoys? According my thread post above I have the same set of non coated strings since September! Multiple gigs and practices later and they still sound and feel...

Nice Land of Lincoln but slow ‘er down :)

Wow didn't know. I am so glad I have mine. Its a short scale OM and sounds and plays fantastic.

A thought just occurred to me. Why hasn’t the venerable carbon fiber guitar maker Rainsong gotten into mandolins? Perhaps the numbers just ain’t there? For the record I have a Mix A5, one of the...

Thanks for the replies everyone. Wireless is not mandatory. So some background….. I have a traveler acoustic guitar that makes enough noise to scratch the itch on vacation. But I got to thinking how...

Is there a 1/4” bluetooth transmitter that I can plug into an instrument and then connect to any generic bluetooth speaker?

I searched and found transmitter/receiver pairs but obviously this...

Does Musescore export to mp3? I think you can upload mp3s to the ‘Cafe.

Mind? That’s awesome. I too prefer standard but back then I couldn’t read. I will try these lines on guitar and if I get some time analyze the note choices.

Thanks!

p.s. what do you use for...

I took some correspondence lessons form John way back when. I recently came across the original sheets he mailed me. They were done in pencil. I decided to re-scan them and share here. Some nice...