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I did the same, but I had been a lifelong guitar player, so I knew what action I wanted and I did the setup: Fit bridge to top, lower slots in the nut, etc. Those are things that really need to be...

As Chuck said, a good setup is paramount for any new mandolin, and I would say *especially* so for the budget mandolins. And I see that you are totally new here, so by way of explanation, the "cafe...

Love the headline, Guess Who Got His Guitar Back

Personally, I've been spending time the last few months going back to the music of my youth (I was born in '55) ... and in the past three weeks,...

Once again, a careful reading of the original post would help. Regardless what other instruments are in the band, his band mates asked him to play that specific part. He plays both acoustic guitar...

You can find it under Fake Books in the library at my website, and download it

Thanks for answering Charlie

I read through the lesson, haven’t used the materials yet, but I have to keep complimenting you on a site well done. The content is great, it’s a pretty comprehensive treatment of the tune. Well...

I use the stroboclip mostly, but only have one, so I move it from mandolin case to guitar case, etc., which is a PITA

Are those D’Addario micros easily visible outdoors in the sunlight?

Great article, Dave, thanks for pointing us to it!

Definitive? Hmmm, dunno. Anyway, I like this one with Sam Bush, Norman Blake, Dan Crary & Doc Watson.

https://youtu.be/FaK3Y6b6MHw

I was pretty sure that you’d been taught that way, Bruno, and I’m not knocking that. 20 years ago is recent history, brother, I’m 67 now and the circle has been around a long time. Still, calling it...

If I were to make critical observations, they would be the same ones that Ralph has made. The Circle of Fifths can be seen as a circle of fourths precisely because fifths and fourths are inversions...

You’ve been putting out some really nice articles and lessons, Brutus … ahem, sorry, Bruno :-)

Keep up the good work, man

The series is interesting to me and has quite a few historical figures represented. I don’t know the answer to your question, but my hunch is that the writer(s) would know that Capone was an amateur...

I know very well that Capone played tenor guitar & banjo, and mandola … in the gangster series Boardwalk Empire, the Capone character plays a mandolin to the best of my observations. I only saw the...

This may have been mentioned before, but a mandolin appears in a couple episodes of season 3 of Boardwalk Empire, an HBO series about early 1900s Atlantic City. The Al Capone character is holding it...

It is a discouraging thing - when you have someone like the OP who defines noodling like that. Noodling, as I understand it in 50+ years of playing, means just what JeffD said, it’s just messing...

It's alright Ranald, I'm sure your mama would be proud of you despite grammatical errors. If you have a photo of her playing a mandolin we can get this thread back on its rails ... I hate being a...

Again, subjective case of those pronouns, should have been “Georgie and I … !”

The original, for reference

https://youtu.be/_I_hmwUMHzE

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Ralph if only you had read the OP and the thread with a little interest, you’d find that the context has been given by way of a YouTube video in OP, as well as being mentioned in some of the comments.

My first post above was in answer to this. The question of the thread title is a little different, though.

Mandolin journey changed my guitar playing mostly like this: I went from 50 years of...

I find that the more I play either instrument and spend time honing technique the more I improve or maintain and enjoy playing. Slight changes in technique between the two are not a problem, unless...

That’s a very nice take on it, Keith, well done. Y’all sound great

That is one of the first tunes I transcribed for mandolin. I think you have a much better feel for it, feels closer to Nancy … I...

Makes sense, Caleb, Eddie would play or attempt to play music on any instrument he touched, especially a stringed instrument. I couldn’t imagine that he’d pose with a mandolin and not play it,...