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If you are wanting a Big Muddy (formerly Mid-Missouri), I suggest contacting the company directly. Not only will you get an instrument untouched and unblemished, but you will get a better deal...

So ... is the (CGDA) mandola played abroad? Given the toil over terminology, I am left to believe that a CGDA mandola roosts in the same barn as the tenor banjo - at the fringe of fringe in Europe....

You should look into a Big Muddy mandola with a mahogany top. I received one and am very pleased with the instrument, having it for a full month and a day now. The model number reads M-14-11. As you...

Tobias Music in Downers Grove carries Weber mandolins. It is a very small shop but has a nice selection of acoustic instruments. The store carries purely acoustic instruments, has been around for...

The top of that mando kind of looks like the thunderstorm in a glass that happens when you get Guiness on tap. I wonder what the top is made from. I spilled beer on my mando more than once ... no...

It is funny to think of instruments in this way. I personally like the middle voice, between the mandolin and guitar. The viola to me is a beautiful sounding instrument, but traditionally it slips...

I am under the impression that, like the viola, the mandola is a relatively obscure instrument. On the other hand, I do not see that mandolin players look down on the mandola like violinists their...

I never thought Ma's cello could be outdone until I heard that beautiful bass. I first heard Zigeunerweisen through Meyer and later heard it on the violin (its original format); and when I heard it...

I would like to know if anyone heard of the old-time hymn "I Will Arise". The closest I came was a fingerstyle guitar version of the piece on YouTube. I would like to find sheet music or chords, if...

I know a bit about mandolin history, but when it comes to the four-course CGDA mandola in particular - or the mandola in general - I have no idea where they came from. My only guess is that they were...

I wonder how the mandolin became an important instrument in Indian classical music. I am interested in the story. Also, tuning and scales.

That video is beautiful, especially when you consider the rather limited range of ukes, be they soprano or tenor. I mean the Shimabukuro video (though the Bach uke was neat too).

Sorry ... ngladd. Didn't intend to insult your intelligence and take up valuable board space with information that is so elementary. Over and out.

I wonder where the flatback mandolins came from. I am thinking about the teardrop-shaped mandolins with oval holes made with flat stock soundboards and backsides that are not carved like violin...

Consider yourself lucky. I'm sure no violist, cellist or double-bass player is going to feel sorry for a guy with a mandolin, especially when you get the play the fun parts in most genres.

My...

I was messing around with the ukulele over the summer and learned some chords. Truth be told, it is naturally a very charming instrument. Transposing a few tunes I know over to the mandolin, I was...

Is it okay to use Orange Glow to clean a mando with a satin finish?

Among other instruments, I saw an Appalachian dulcimer at a Walmart. Believe it ... or not.

Here's one: learn one new chord each week. At the end of 2007, if your memory serves you well, you might have fifty-two chords beneath your belt. I'd settle for twenty-six chords.

Edgar Meyer, the double-bassist, also plays selected Bach cello suites admirably. He has an album of Bach bowed on the double-bass. He also has a few contemporary albums out that are mandolin...

Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eV5Uyc6Knlo&NR

Rosewood is nice if you want a darker tone. I have rosewood and am more pleased with the tone than maple. The mandolin is a funny instrument; you start out orienting yourself toward the treble side...

I was wondering, did Bill Monroe ever play other instruments besides the mandolin? Even a mandola? Guitar, fiddle, and so on.

Don't be so certain --its not easy at all. #It is likely that some group (Native Americans, Mexicans, Eastern Europeans, Irish, Italians etc.) would have been exploited for cheap labor. Slavery isn't...

I have a satin-finished mando now and do not feel compelled to wipe it down after every sitting. I had a glossy mando in the past and worked hard to wipe every fingerprint off the instrument. After...