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  1. Thread: Playing Solo..

    by StuartE
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    Re: Playing Solo..

    Although Johnny Cash frequently performed OBS, it is not really Johnny Cash's song. Cash did feature the lyrics, while it had been mainly preformed as an instrumental, continuing to this day.

    The...
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    Re: create TAB from standard music notation ?

    Do a websearch for "musescore3 tablature". You'll get this page

    "If you wish to create tablature as part of a new score, use the New Score Wizard. If you want to add tablature to an existing...
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    Re: Free Waterloo Mandolin

    Great prize for a Mandolin Cafe member. And, great recognition for Mandolin Cafe and the fine work of Scott et al
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    Re: Built a tenor guitar

    Wow, looks beautiful.

    When you get a chance, how about some video?
  5. Re: (Godin A8) Making my mandolin look more ethnic

    Guitar skins,a sheet of vinyl printed with an image that you attach to your guitar or mandolin. (AN interenet search for guitar skins will show up more companies and more designs.)

    You'll have to...
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    Re: C Standard (Guitar) Tuning On Electric Tenor

    Dunraven,

    It sounds to me like what you are looking for might well be the Eastwood Warren Ellis Baritone Tenor Guitar. It has four strings, tuned in fifths, and is pitched CGDA--with the C a major...
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    Re: C Standard (Guitar) Tuning On Electric Tenor

    Chicago or guitar tuning is very common for tenor guitar. Tuned same as the high (top) strings on a guitar DGBE.

    That's also the tuning for baritone ukulele.

    Compared to 5th tuning, one note...
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    Re: Playing notation G/F#

    Make sure you're playing an F# as distinguished from an F natural. A couple of you fingerings have Fs and not F#s.

    The note below the slash indicates the desired bass note. So you need to look...
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    Re: The Don Stiernberg Interview

    Mandoboppin' is a great jazz CD which happens to feature mandolin. (Unless one isn't really a jazzer, then it is a great mandolin CD which just happens to also be a jazz CD). Just got mine in the...
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    Tenor Baritone Guitar

    This is not a misprint, but a new offering from Eastwood Guitars. The tenor baritone is a four string guitar tuned in fifths, pitched an octave below the tenor tenor guitar. Putting it another way,...
  11. Re: Czech old jazz-swing compositions with Tenor Guitar

    Thanks for sharing these. Are these songs from the 1930s (roughly).

    Adolph Hofner, a western swing band leader from the 1930s-1980s recorded some songs in Czech and some were from the old...
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    Re: How much would be a reasonable price?

    Here's a listing for a 1975 Nichols that sold for $2000.
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    Re: I wrote a mandolin conerto

    Congratulations. I thought your mando was under-recorded. IMO, there should have a mic on the mando and one on the ensemble.
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    Re: A friend needs a Lefty fiddle tune book

    Hendrix restrung his guitars, bluesman Albert King played upside down.

    According to Gibson:


    You’ll see Duane Allman, Mark Knopfler, Danny Gatton, Billy Corgan, Michael Bloomfield, Gary...
  15. Re: Other primitive, raw mandolin music like early Bill Monroe?

    In addition to the already mentioned Document compilation Rags, Breakdowns, Stomps and Blues: Vintage Mandolin Music 1927-1946, there's an interesting Rounder compilation Early Mandolin Classics,...
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    Re: Something is missing!

    Named his guitar "Lucille" because that was the name of the woman two men were fighting over when they knocked over the kerosene bottle used to heat the joint.

    I don't know if he left a guitar is...
  17. Re: Flat-wound string options for electric 5 string

    I'm not an expert, but it might be a little crowded. Neck width on Eastman's Mandocaster is only 1 3/16. You might want to consider Eastman's Mandocaster 12 which has a nut width of 1 7/8 for $100...
  18. Re: Recordings in dark and haunting cave of IWW fortress.

    Hey Miko,

    Thanks for sharing this.

    In the USA, the first world war is WWI. IWW is, usually, the abbreviation for the Industrial Workers of the World, a radical, syndicalist union from 1905...
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    Re: Nashville with Kids?

    Not music related, but educational.

    full scale replica of Greek Parthenon and Andrew Jackson's Hermitage.
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    Re: Can someone please give me a hand with G/F#?

    I find it is almost always helpful, even essential, to look at chords in context. So thanks for providing the link. The chord you are asking about is in the middle of G-->G/F#-->Em-->Bm. It is...
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    Re: Mystery Gibson Mandolin

    I doubt there is much institutional memory at radio stations today.

    There's a whole bunch of festivals and folklore centers and the like in Virginia. You might have better luck contacting them by...
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    Poll: Re: Poll: March Jazz tune of the month

    I like David's take on "Mack the Knife," though not as much as Sonny Rollins (from his classic Saxophone Columbus album.


    https://youtu.be/EcOnhR5zkXs
  23. Thread: Spain

    by StuartE
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    Re: Spain

    Looks like it is in the New Real Book Vol 2

    Hope you'll make a video of your arrangement/performance and share it here.
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    Re: Blues for tenor guitar

    It's on Amazon
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    Re: seeking name of trad klezmer tune

    Check out the archives section of the American Routes radio program. There's a playlist for each show, it seems.
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