not strictly speaking a mandolin, but still.....
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Type: Posts; User: seankeegan
not strictly speaking a mandolin, but still.....
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Hey Brian,
I tend not to, unless the fiddle player is playing solo. For my style of music (Irish Trad), I often use a DPA 4099 and a small d condenser. If it's a dark sounding player I'll use a...
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I'm a fan of the Coles 4038. Also like the Royer R122, for when you don't have a pre amp with a lot of gain.
My modern fiddle likes Larsen Tzigane or Infield Red for a more mellow sound. The Infield Reds seem to last longer than the Larsen's.
I bought an early Giacomel F5 from the classifieds a few years ago. The mandolin was in very poor condition and needed a lot of work to get it playable again. The neck had a thick finish, and there...
Belated Happy birthday to Dan the Mandolin Man.
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https://www.sylvanmusic.com/store/p3214/Pava_A-4_Satin_Mandolin_-_Blonde.html
https://themandolinstore.com/product/northfield-a-4-special-mandolin-icelandic/
There's also countless teen Gibson...
It didn't sound like a violin with frets. While some aesthetic elements are similar to violin, the actual design and construction is significantly different (flat back, ebony bridge, transverse...
Thin and quiet.
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Curiosity got the better of me. But I sent it back; not for me. An interesting instrument, but I couldn't justify keeping something I wouldn't play.
I will say the retailer who has this...
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Lots of love for ovals in this house!
has anyone actually played one of these? Any feedback?
Aer Lingus international are great. I flew with a tenor banjo in a Calton case as hand luggage from Dublin to New York. I had checked it and asked to carry to the gate, but the staff let me bring it...
This wasn't a pre made set of strings for mandolin. It was a custom set I ordered from Newtone strings in UK. They will make whatever strings you want. So the gauges were 11, 16w, 26w, 40w.
The...
Just to add my two cents worth...
I experimented with using a wound 2nd string on a mandolin, tuned down a tone (FCGD). The set was phos bronze, same gauges as j74s, but the second string was a...
Very interesting discussion. I've found a similar thing with tenor banjos used for Irish Traditional Music. Epiphone and Paramount had a range of tenor banjos with an arch tone ring, but for my money...
There's a beautiful looking Collings oval for sale in TMS as well:
https://themandolinstore.com/product/collings-mt2-o-custom/
A friend of mine tried it and said it was particularly good. In...
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This is the specific Kimble oval I tried:
https://themandolinstore.com/product/kimble-oval-hole-mandolin/
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/music/2023/05/07/a-giant-of-irish-trad-music-the-chieftains-fiddle-player-sean-keane-dies/
https://youtu.be/h_HyKbHbTQw
Looks like the F oval is gone as well.
I've not played that specific mando, but I've played another oval from the same batch - Will makes spectacular mandolins. It was powerful, full bodied but with great mid range cut, fast response and...
https://themusicemporium.com/products/kimble-f5-oval-hole
Every year is the year of the mandolin :grin: