pre-Loar Gibson A (not an F-style)
That said, you can play anything in OT--its folk music.
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pre-Loar Gibson A (not an F-style)
That said, you can play anything in OT--its folk music.
I actually have one Primus album, Pork Soda, and sure enough there is a track with mando taking the melody. It's an old-timey melody, sort of done in a jokey manner as all Primus music is done.
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Once I posted an instrument for a good $300 bucks less than I saw advertised anywhere for the same make and model. I got an e-mail from a guy which turned into a phone call, which turned into several...
Last night I visited a friend who was a big Soundgarden fan when theyw ere a band. He had a bunch of bootleg stuff, to include a recording of mandolin and what sounded like mandola duet from a...
I have a small Hunter for humidification in my instrument room, and a common hydrometor to monitor the relative humidity.
Mine stays pretty even at 43% with a 65-70 degree F temperature. It is...
A couple years ago (maybe 2?) I purchased an A-9. Although I traded the mando, I really thought it was a great mandolin for the price. But the tuners, although they held tune well, were unbearably...
Merry Christmas to all!
And if, by some slim chance, Dick Spotswood of WAMU reads these boards, my heartfelt gratitude for going into work today and playing a wonderful slew of bluegrass Christmas...
I've read Bill Monroe was intensely shy as a boy. I've pondered that you can study picking technique for the rest of your life, but you just can't learn what it's like to have been a shy boy unless...
Thanks for all this information!
I semi-recently saw this movie, well after it had come out on DVD, and I too was a bit dissappointed. #First off, an American Civil War movie really shouldn't star an Australian and an Englishman,...
I've got a very very good deal for an old resonator mandolin. #It's a National painted yellow...pretty ugly to look at and the paint looks pretty worn of time, but the price was certainly right....
Since you have to donate an organ nowadays to buy a mandolin, I try not to get too critical of people's tryout songs. However, I often grow tired of people's attempts at Rawhide and Jerusalem Ridge...
Just to throw it out there, Cattle in the Cain makes a great medley tune for Kitchen Girl.
Fast enough to be exciting for a straightforward A tune, but slow enough to actually hear the IV chord in the A part.
I agree with everything in the above transcription except the Em in the B part. Sounds much better with an E Major.
I think tenor banjo could fit right in there as a melody instrument in OT. I think a fiddle, mando, tenor banjo trio would be a great melodic package.
I wonder if the sound of a tenor banjo pickin...
As much as I love the mandolin, and I do, I find I play guitar more, especially when picking around the house, which is where I play the most during these winter months.
The guitar offers...
I think orchestral music was very popular amongst mandolin players in those days. I'm no historian.
I took my F-style to an OT jam, and thought I'd share some food for thought.
While playing my f-style in melodic unison with banjo and fiddle, I found that it competed with the fiddle in terms of...
Only crabby, crampy people with Stetson hats, thick glasses, and who name their sons Bill, their dogs Smith, and their mandolins Monroe would fault you for playing bluegrass on a Mid Mo.
I like to...
I don't know much about Clarence White...I was considering purchasing a cd of his guitar instrumentals but wasn't sure if I'd like it.....any comments?
If your talking about that 33 Instrumentals...
June Apple!
I also prefer the sound of the old teens A's to the snakeheads (that I've played, and they are few). Also prefer the thicker, wider neck.
I guess its all in the eye of the beholder, but I sure am...
More than likely the guy was just trying to be helpful. So far as I understand, OMs are pretty much a standard instrument in a typical Celtic lineup (probably don't need to be telling you this, since...
At least around here, the oldtimers (age wise) say that old time music was just fiddle and banjo. #You will get some wierd looks from some old guys if you try to bring a mandolin (or even a guitar...