Holy moly, that's beautiful.
Type: Posts; User: John Lloyd
Holy moly, that's beautiful.
Here lately I've been playing more fiddle than mandolin, but we're about to lose our one guitar guy. I'm more than competent on guitar and will tolerate subbing, but if they try to stick me with the...
I used to think fiddle was hardest, and it would have been harder if I hadn't already been playing mandolin for 20-odd years. Then I tried flute. Ow. My lips just won't bend that way, and my lung...
Not yet, but it's certainly a thought.
OK, so: photos. And apologies right up front, because they're awful in that they don't come near doing this instrument justice.
This a a seriously sweet little axe. I wondered what a cedar top...
New, as in straight out of the extremely well-packed shipping box and just tuned up.
This is a beauty.
More info and (I hope!) pics to follow shortly.
At any given Saturday night noisemaking session ("more than a jam, less than a gig") our still-evolving and thus still nameless band is almost guaranteed to play at least two songs each from...
Another possibility that just occurred to me: try having a look at builders within feasible driving distance. You might start here:
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+1 on Elderly and the Mandolin Store. I've dealt with both and they're top notch. Ditto Northfield. Their very highly regarded Big Mon model is right at the edge of your price range. Their S series...
I have an Eastman DGM3 (i.e. Lyon & Healey knockoff) mandola. It gets played less than my mandolins, but enough to keep it around even after I get an octave. To my ears, the mandola meshes better...
Thank you, NDB.
The US Coast Guard have descended in force and are now conducting constant SAR missions. As a fuller picture emerges it's unlikely to get any prettier. This was apocalyptic. Those...
I'm a subscriber as well. The course is well structured, with each new concept clearly explained and demonstrated. Studying classical mandolin opens up a whole other world of possibilities on the...
In the Bahamas it missed Andros Island by a good 100 miles, but the devastation in Marsh Harbor and Freeport defies description.
Ukulele, banjo, and wuffo (short for "wuffo you play that funny-lookin' little guitar?").
I'm mostly chiming in to second everything slinds said.
Go if you can. The Marshall Mandolin Summit is worth it and then some.
A more personal take: most of what I've done on mandolin so far...
With me it's usually a story line, then the lyrics, then the melody. But not always; sometimes it's a chord progression, sometimes it's a riff, and at least twice it's been a bass line. Whichever way...
I love cats. The bond with one is special. You have my condolences. RIP Uther.
So how long before Gibson goes after Epiphone? ;)
How many bassists does it take to change a lightbulb?
None. The keyboard player can do it with his left hand.
And a sort of riff on one that's probably already been posted:
How do you get a...
Haven't had a blue mando … yet, but I was pretty tickled with how this guitar turned out, and the thought of a mandolin (or, ooh, mandola) done up in the same scheme is tempting.
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Perfectly happy with the Northfield F2S I got from them. Though buying at a distance is always a gamble, Fiddler's Green made it painless, and the YouTube videos they post just give me one more...
Sounds like some potentially fancy free-form whittling.
I'm not sure what kind of burst it's called; maybe tobacco? Personally I think it looks like milk chocolate and honey. It's a lovely finish. :) I'll be more than happy to post photos as soon as I can...
OK, the actual New Mandolin Day was last Wednesday. I've been playing too much to post.
I tend to favor oval holes over f-holes, and had been ogling Northfields for a while, so when this F2S...
I know Joe Curtin was involved in an experiment or two in Europe. I don't know whether he had anything to do with the demonstration in Arizona alluded to by yankees1.
David Burgess has racked up...