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    Re: Metal saddle

    My Gibson 1919 A had an original aluminum bridge saddle. Though beat up, it is a great sounding mando, perhaps even a bit better than the F4. I loved the metal saddle; I could get a real stinging...
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    Re: Book Recommendation for Technique?

    If you aren't notation impaired....SEVCIK: School of Violin Technic, Books 1-4
    School of Violin Technics (Schule der Violintechnik, four parts, 1880)


    Vol I, First Position,
    vol. II, 2nd to...
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    Re: A style, use lefty or righty?

    EXACTLY!

    Ryan Thomson, aka Captain Fiddle, has written several books about Left-handed fiddle playing. He is right-handed but developed focal dystonia in his right shoulder really impairing his...
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    Re: A style, use lefty or righty?

    That nut is not a real big deal. She keeps the original in the case so it can reinstalled if needed. If she's not going to be playing higher than open position, you might get by with just taking...
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    Re: Favourite Funeral Songs/Songs of Mourning

    https://youtu.be/658QFoRM6oI


    https://youtu.be/8GgxgOWBdeE

    (I have to say, I find the topic tread title "Favourite Funeral Songs" to be quite an oxymoron. Sounds more like the way a death...
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    Re: Favourite Funeral Songs/Songs of Mourning

    https://youtu.be/_jyIrxCPEL4


    https://youtu.be/AnOV7tLoncc


    https://youtu.be/PEk-wjil1rA
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    Re: Favourite Funeral Songs/Songs of Mourning

    The Grateful Dead/Garcia version was good, but Norma Waterson (w/Richard Thompson on lead guitar) takes the song to a whole 'nother level.

    Norma Waterson - "Black Muddy River"
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    Re: A style, use lefty or righty?

    a long-handed, not so long-winded, response......
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    Niles H
  9. Re: Mandolin in Uncommon Music Genres: Your Thoughts and Discover

    Plenty of examples here of mandolin and electric 5-string mandola played with techniques and vocabulary drawn from a variety of other instruments, in a varierty of genres.

    I've been doing this...
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    Re: All Blues - Miles Davis

    This will probably sound "heretical", but the last time I listened to the Kinda Blue album (4 or 5 months ago), I thought that the best solos came not from Davis or Coltrane, but were those played by...
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    Re: Four or five string vs. eight string

    My views on electric mando playing are probably contradictory to so-called "norm" on the topic. (I will exempt the electric Tiny Moore, jazz archtop hollow-body guitar style of playing, from my...
  12. Re: What tunes do you think I would like based on my music taste?

    Here are some great albums you can trance out to.

    FLOOK - Haven, Ancora
    BRIAN FINNEGAN - The Ravishing Genius of Bones
    KATHRYN TICKELL - Debateable Lands
    MARIA KALANIEMI - Maria Kalaniemi
    ALAN...
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    Re: Musings on picks

    The player's own technique is almost going to be much more important than the choice of plectrum, strings, etc., so an over obsession with the latter isn't going to be a/the miracle cure for your...
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    Re: Not hitting both strings when picking.

    Here's what I had beginner students do to monitor their playing with this issue.

    Slightly de-tune one string of each pair of strings, so that it is noticeable. and you can hear the...
  15. Thread: Gm chord

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    Re: Gm chord

    a moveable minor chop shape:

    e 3 (G)
    A 5 (D)
    D 8 (Bb)
    G 7 (D)

    Some shapes should be practiced with several different fingerings, which you might use depending on the preceding and/or...
  16. Re: Judge throws out Gibson's claim that Dean is in contempt of c

    Flower pots, vines, inlays, etc.:

    I'm sure if one was to spend enough time doing image searches of Art Nouveau images (Mucha, Grasset, Beardsley, Privat-Livemont, Wm Morris, Walter Crane etc....
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    Re: Double stop soloing help.

    Hot Solos For Bluegrass Mandolin - 5 of the 6 tunes include harmonized melodies in doublestops. Playing off the harmony, or including phrases based on a harmony are important aspect of soloing.
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    Re: Brendan Gleeson plays a vintage Gibson

    How do you know that the air conditioning wasn't turned to "cold"? When/if the soundstage is 10 degrees cooler than the green room, the pre-entrance tuning can be moot. Been there done that.

    From...
  19. Re: Good Tone - How long does it actually take?

    With fingerstyle, the RH has a larger %. But until you get your LH finesse, you won't "sing" on the instrument. But if all you want to do is play fast notey lines (like a majority of mando players...
  20. Re: Good Tone - How long does it actually take?

    Way over 50% of tone comes from the player's hands and fingers. And it is BOTH HANDS. Too often the fretting fingers are not given enough attention.

    I did a workshop at Kaufman's Kamp back in...
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    Re: Finger style mandolin

    Oh come on! It's not something "brand new".

    I've been using right hand fingers for 40 years, usually in the hybrid Tele pick+finger(s) style of guitarists like James Burton, Richard Thompson,...
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    Re: Mandolin and Clawhammer Banjo duos

    No Judy doesn't play mandolin as far as I know. What those columns involved was taking what she was demonstrating on fiddle and trying to replicating that sound on mandolin, which involved a lot of...
  23. Re: Article: New Music from Petri Hakala & Timo Alakotila - Mando

    Bravo Petri, Timo!
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    Re: Mandolin and Clawhammer Banjo duos

    To correct an error in my previous post;

    Actually it is "Shady Grove" that gets some clawhammer treatment. ("In The Pines" drifts into SRV/Hendrix territory in the last couple of its solos.)
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    Re: Mandolin and Clawhammer Banjo duos

    The problem with playing oldtime tunes/songs on mandolin is that too often it comes off as sounding bluegrassy.

    Mandolin can be played in a manner where it does sound oldtime, but it requires a...
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