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  1. Re: Is there an easy program that will change pitch of a YouTube

    This is brilliant! Since my preferred approach to learning a new tune is to find as versions as possible on Youtube and try to play along with them, I can now do this even if the video is in a...
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    Re: Sobell Gig Bag or carrying case

    Rockbag might work if you can find one: https://shop.warwick.de/en/cases-bags/other-string-instr.-bags/21512/rockbag-premium-line-mandolin-gig-bag

    I use it for my Taran which I think has similar...
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    Re: The need for speed

    All will be revealed!
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    Re: Keeping a practice journal

    The only record I've maintained with any regularity is a tunebook https://thesession.org/members/40188/tunebook at thesession.org. I'm usually quite consistent in only adding tunes to it that I feel...
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    The need for speed

    I've decided to put some serious effort into increasing speed...

    At the moment I can play reels (Irish) including ornaments (triplets) around 90bpm, but the ornaments disappear over 100bpm, and...
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    Re: Question for UK Members re. BREXIT

    I've bought stuff from Thomann (Germany) quite often, it arrives promptly as if it had been posted from the UK and with no extra charges.

    I once bought something from Switzerland (not in the EU),...
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    Re: TablEdit

    Go to File, Options, Display tab and make sure Automatic Chord Diagrams is checked, then select Chords As Text Only.

    If you don't like the automatic results then you can add them manually via Text...
  8. Re: Best Celtic Mandolin around ~£500($700)?

    Hathway mando can indeed be used for jigs and reels, check out Three Dollar Shoe on youtube e.g.


    https://youtu.be/wATgt1L2rUQ
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    Re: TablEdit question

    Go to File, Options, Page Layout tab and increase Height of Header of the first page.
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    Re: Mandolin Stand Recommendations

    I have an Ingles stand its nice but there doesn't seem to be anything to keep the feet apart?
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    Re: Inherited Mandolin - What is it?

    Looks very similar to this Regal: https://picclick.com/ANTIQUE-1920s-REGAL-MANDOLIN-8-String-Teardrop-153306038407.html (but without the pickguard and fingerboard extension).

    Seems to be all-birch...
  12. Re: Info Request: Highland Bowl Back Mandolin

    Someone asked about an Octave Mandolin by the same company here back in 2013:

    https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/97030-Highland-Octave-Mandolin


    There was a luthier operating under the...
  13. Re: If you lost your BlueChip pick at the Denver festival this we

    OK I'll try for a Jazz LG35 with nothing on the back?


    I wasn't actually in Denver but when you lose a pick who knows where it will end up!
  14. Re: Ever tried one of these "Pick Punch" for making picks?

    Now if someone could invent a tool that made credit cards out of old picks, I'd buy two of those :)
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    Re: 1st Mandolin on $1k Budget?

    If you have never played a mandolin before, you might want to consider nut width. Breedlove and probably others make a "crossover" model with slightly wider than normal mandolin nut width, precisely...
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    Re: Pub Prop

    I see these mostly for leaning a guitar or bouzouki on rather than suspending mandos or fiddles. The situation is a pub so a short term thing - you prop it up while playing a second instrument, or...
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    Re: Blue chip model codes?

    The coding is not very consistent but here are some guesses from me:

    TP- Triangular Pick
    TP-1R - Triangular Pick with 1 rounded corner
    TPR - Triangular Pick with all three Rounded corners
    STP -...
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    Re: How do you get better at the mandolin?

    I think maybe treat it as an engineering project, but not to expect engineering results.

    So some bits you work on every day never seem to get finished, and other bits you work on hardly ever...
  19. Re: High end Italian restaurant in London seeking mandolinist

    I'd do it for a plane ticket and some cannoli.

    (I live in London so wouldn't actually need to buy a plane ticket.)
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    Re: Scales.

    I think one of the purposes of playing scales is the brain does not have to process a lot of musical or other information - it is a just a musically predictable and physically fairly memorable...
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    Re: Blue Chip Uk

    I bought 3 direct from BlueChip, it attracted £16.87 VAT and an £8 "Royal Mail International Handling Fee". So the total price per pick worked out about £36. JP Guitars looks reasonable on that basis...
  22. Re: String And Pick Gauges For Irish/Scottish Trad

    I'm liking the pointy tip and compact shape of the BlueChip Jazz picks at the moment, I seem to hit more triplets than with rounder tips. As for strings I'm using D'Addario EJ74 on an old Gibson A3...
  23. Re: What sort of mandolin woudl a pirate have?

    My guess is a Fylde - built by Jolly Roger Bucknall. They have a crossbone nut and tailpieces of eight.
  24. Re: Wood that is stronger than carbon fiber and steel? Yes.

    I can't comment on the science aspect but the journalist might benefit from a little history:
    "The resulting chemical bonds make the wood strong enough to one day be used in buildings and vehicles"
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    Re: rubner tuners

    Hank, to be honest when I ordered them I didn't even think about whether they were worm over or under. But these are A model tuners so all the shafts are the same length, I found I was able to...
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