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This discussion sounds a little like the idea that there is some new fangled way to do everything faster so you can fit more in. Perhaps looking to an idea like mindfulness would actually help a...

Humidity here in far north queensland is high - we win the high humidity awards every year. As others have said my instruments are out in the open. If you are going to try to do something about the...

I just got the Parking Lot Pickers book of tunes delivered. Opened it to the first tune last night. Pretty simple, more simple than i would normally want to play. Anyway, i see the words there and...

How about this one too - also a very cool response - and read to the end - he drives the point home
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$200K - you have to be joking. Reminds me of the art market over recent years - speculators and dealers 'in the know' create cache for a product and suckers just keep hoovering up the increases -...

Yep, all my sheet music goes in those plastic sheeted spiral bound folders - just makes page turning and keeping pages open in the right place so much better. My wife fbuys and uses these folders...

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I've just got a Weber Sage OM - beautiful. Love the sound, very, very different to mandolin. But, the long scale is a stretch. I've had the OM for about 4 weeks and i'm really just getting to...

Wow, well done for volunteering for something like this - i soooooo wish there was something similar near me - i would love this. My perfect idea of a jam (having never played with others apart from...

But then i guess the higher sales come from the creation of a vicious cycle - pay crappy talent a huge amount of money, create the need for re-coupment of crappy investment, employ lots of marketers...

I think there has always been a lot of money to make from touring, it's just that now it is more expensive due to the 'big show' nature of a lot of bands, costs of promotions etc. There's something...

Thanks Kip, i have to say i hadn't heard of Rhapsody, so i'll give it a look.

Barney makes a good point of course that things are always changing and that applies across the board i reckon.
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I am referring to commercial music rather than small studios or producers

The music companies have been far, far too slow to adapt to a changing world and to develop a new business model. I would...

Just don't die - that's my plan. Medical science in another 10 or 15 years - fingers crossed!

Just had MAS attack. Weber Sage Octave winging its way to me as we speak. Wife mildly unhappy. To be honest the buy wasn't affected by talent level, that's too low to affect decisions.

It...

Hey, i hope it works out Willie - everyone deserves a bit of luck / good fortune.

Thanks Jim, i'll have a listen - can they all be sweet sounding though? There must be some that aren't? Like i...

...I'm not sure i get this obsession with Gibson mandos i must be missing something, i've never played one of course, but sometimes i get this cult'ish feeling - sorry!

I agree with Paul - i live surrounded by rain forest - it is sooooooo humid here at the moment it is literally like walking round in damp clothing as soon as you step outside.

I got a mando...

Thanks allen, appreciate it. I think i might have found a good'un but if it falls through for any reaosn i might need that advice

cheers

chris

Thanks Perry. Appreciate that feedback - i want something i can pick too. i try to play a whole range of stuff so an instrument that can cross styles is most useful for me.

There is also a...

Hi Ed

There is one for sale in the classifieds at the moment with a couple of Youtube clips - i'm still new - it sounds ok to me but what do you think? My alternative is to cough up extra and go...

Hi All

Just wondering if anyone has info about these Mandolas or any experience of them. (Done a search and not too much around on them)

Cheers

Chris

Ah! Catmandu, for me it is all about the different, the alternative, anything away from the norm, i could spend hours looking at blacktops or mandolas or bowlbacks, really anything that tweaks that...

There is actually a cure for MAS (for the $$ part, at least) - it's called the joint bank account without joint access. Works preeeety well actually. It mean the abdication of all responsibility...

Update - i just wrote the post above and without thinking went to the classifieds!!:))

Aw, crap - i do this all the time - i thought i was ok though - i thought it was just a natural thing. I trawl both the Aussie and US versions of Ebay too - is this also bad?