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Definitely not a ukulele. And you don't seem to have any trouble with the concept of a 12-string guitar.

Yep, I totally messed that up. See... I said I was a dilettante.

I think we all feel exactly the same way.

Bald Cypress and Port Orford Cedar are in the same genus (Cupressaceae). Port Orford is used regularly as an "alternative tonewood" for guitars. But the reports on this site about using Port Orford...

Oh, and then throw in the Breedlove imports, TOH and Bend connections...lots of possible point of confusion.

Which thread? Do you have the link?



It doesn't seem unreasonable that someone got confused along the way. I mean, Bruce's sig has appeared in Flatirons and Gibsons and Webbers and STE branded...

Well, I'm still peering over the edge, but not quite as ready to leap as I was a few days ago.

The sentence should be "There is a ship, and it sails the sea." We have a gender neutral pronoun explicitly for that. The sentence you wrote might follow the maritime convention of coding the...

This is really the biggest issue. And I just haven't had a chance to play enough higher-end mandolins. The closest shop that stocks anything other than Eastman is 5 or 6 hours away (Music...

Two things about this have always seemed fairly evident. First is that men frequently express affection for, dote on, and even caress objects that they possess such as instruments and vehicles, and...

Thanks guys. Now I want an oval hole and an F5.

I will admit that I think the F5 headstocks are pretty silly looking and the kickstand can be a bit jabby.

At the end of the day, I guess what...

My Flatiron A5 pretty much meets all my tone and playability needs, plays very nice, sounds really good. But the heart wants what the heart wants, and i've been eyeing F styles in the +/- $4k range...

I was going to say something fairly similar. I also have been playing guitar for years, mostly acoustic, and have a pretty good sense of what a good guitar sounds like, and can pick up nuances in...

As I continue to cogitate on it. There was also a gap in the market for domestic instruments with Gibson's acquisition of Flatiron. You basically had a choice of a Gibson product, an import, or a...

Right. This is kind of the point that people seem to be making. If the OP were to chose banjo, and wanted to play both BG and Irish, he'd need to get two different instruments. With mandolin he...

Did it happen all at once, or sneak up on you? If it happened all at once, it's probably a fret that popped up, and can possibly be tapped down. If it snuck up on you I suspect you need a bit more...

I wonder if Jerry's death in '95 pushed interest in his side projects in the subsequent years. There was also the "acoustic boom" after the MTV Unplugged performances of Clapton and Nirvana, I...

I think there probably was an uptick in demand. As a bit of a deadhead in my early to mid 20s at the time, it seemed like lots of people around me were discovering the Jerry and Dawg collaborations...

Hmmm... I suspect that the mandolin forum might be biased, so I'll get the ball rolling and suggest a mandolin.

But, bias aside, if you want to play both Irish and bluegrass, mandolin makes more...

I'm in a similar situation. I recently picked up a Kentucky KM-755 for a really good deal on Amazon also. I already had an Eastman MD-315. Figured I'd play them both for a bit, and keep the one I...

But, I suppose things like scale length and construction techniques play a big role in what is used/preferred.

D'addario EJ74 is probably about the most popular they are: .040, .026, .015, .011. Those are considered "mediums," the next size down, EJ73 "lights" are: .038, .024, .014, .010.

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In order of how much time I've probably spent listening to them:

Jeff Austin
Chris Thile
David Grisman
Phoffman (Greensky)
Drew Emmitt (Leftover Salmon)
John Skehan (Railroad Earth)
Jarrod...

Should you upgrade? I don't know.

I'll say this. I just bought a Kentucky KM-755 (because I got a really good deal, just showed up yesterday), and I already owned an Eastman MD315. And those...