It's not bad enough to not be able to spend more on mandolins then you can afford, I've had to hit up the RRSP's several times ;). Myhers Music in Edmonton gets some really nice stuff from time to...
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It's not bad enough to not be able to spend more on mandolins then you can afford, I've had to hit up the RRSP's several times ;). Myhers Music in Edmonton gets some really nice stuff from time to...
A National RM1 with Flatwouds is not as brash of an instrument as you might expect, it has a sweet round tone if you play close to the board.
You're correct on it being European terminology, an octave mandola is known as an octave mandolin in North America. As for that Sobell in that add it does look like its on the short side for an...
The Biscut bridge on my RM1 keeps shifting and hitting the cover plate, causing buzzing. It seems to have the tendency to shift towards the G string. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I've got a kyser Banjo capo that I use on my Bouzuki, it works great. If you need to shift keys quickly between tunes an Elastic capo works great (also super cheap) you're going to want to get one of...
I would suggest getting lessons with a real person in your area, playing this music with other people is what really gets you feeling the lilt, if such a person isn't available in your area, I seen...
The TI stark's are far lower tension, they feel slightly rubbery underneath the fingers, like fiddle strings do. I just bought a mandolin with a set of the D'Addario flatwounds on it, they seem to be...
For that price you could buy a Loar...... and I highly doubt it sounds as good as any 1000$ solid body electric mando being sold around these forums......
Get the heavy gauge(Stark) these strings are much lower tension than a normal set of bronze mandolin strings, they feel almost rubbery like fiddle strings. I'm running them for the first time on my...
I've been using my TAD 35 for everything, it's solid enough to hit the mandolin strings with some pop but still flexible enough for fast triplets on the banjo or strumming the zouk
And as far as the speed bevel goes, I don't really find it noticable, although I have been using speed beveled picks for awhile now
I've been using a TAD 35 and it's been working out great as an all around pick, I have a zouk and a banjo too, the pick is an .88 I believe so a good in between. On mandolin I was previously using...
In my neck of the woods It's pretty common that people of irish ancestry are a minority at session's, I'm one of the only one's, and judging by the website you posted even your teacher isn't a paddy!...
I also recommend TablEdit, I use the tefview app to convert abc files to tab and notation on a daily basis, check out the session.com for a ton of celtic stuff. I dont read standard notation very...
Sounds Like you guys really poured your hearts into those tracks, awsome stuff. I hope you can find some success and write some more great tunes!