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Well most that I have had or played look at least as good as they sound. The one exception would be the Michael Kelly F style Octave, which looked totally cool but was toneless ( or I at least could...

I agree with lowtone2, Bill Monroe was a great a mandolin player, and technically his stuff has its challenges. I suppose on the Cleveland thing I've been at plenty of jams where I could not keep up...

There are some simple android apps for field recordings (J4T Multitrack is pretty good) that let you overdub, good for sketching ideas, even if that is how to play a simple tune. might be worth a...

interestingly enough I have both mandola and octave as Gallatin and Yellowstone, and I must say when played together the two have very complimentary tone, especially in the Yellowstones
I agree the...

Thanks but it does mention players, notably Mike Marshall and Radm Zenkle,
MMQ Ostroushko and the Blakes ( not mentioned) certainly had put out a lot of mandocello music ( arguably more than...

cool - I loved "I Advanced Masked" - and remember watching the video on MTV- thinking - "this is awesome" but never going after the album, the second Fripp and Summers I wasn't so crazy about.

Just got this in the mail

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They have one staff line for each, Belew, Fripp, Levin,

they even have Bruford's percussion notated out .

I'd like to try Discipline with mandolins...

I see Wikipedia now has an official mandocello page,

Wikipedia Mandocello

so the rumors are true, they do exist!

However I think the list of 20th Century players of note could be expanded...

I don't necessarily play classical all that much, but I do find the foot stand useful for anything bigger than a mandolin, and sometimes use it for the mandolin.
I think my angle is more horizontal,...

I never really thought about it when I was into guitar, but when I started playing mandolin, seemed the pick had more tone effect

Dunlop Prime tone 1.5 sculpted is my go to these days, 1.4 is good...

reading through this some of this, Yes, it makes a huge difference if you engage the audience while performing, its ok to look at the instrument just don't stay glued to it, I had a bad habit of not...

It does amaze me the difference in tone and playability $1000 dollars will make, you do find this with other instruments, but to me it seems very pronounced in mandolin, of course the wood 'quality"...

Chuck very cool - great playing ( by all) on a wonderful Bob Abrams (hats off) creation.

nice nice nice tone on that dola!

I was there!

My original attempt at OM back about 25 years ago now, was converting an ovation guitar with a hole in the plastic back to an 8 string with banjo tuners added to the head, and customized bridge.
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Good point Eric, Tony Rice pretty much used the same guitar for most of his recording / performance career ( tone poems a noticeable exception), John Reichman pretty much sticks to his Loar though I...

catmandu2 no harm! no censorship! The aspiring kodger in me loves to spout opinions based on nothing but personal bias!
I was a guitar player for a long time and I moved to mandolin (partly)...

its not really worth the experimentation, get a low cost dola or an octave and capo the 5th fret.

I think you are talking to the "wrong crowd" suggesting mandolins are limited in scope of applicability. I have 3 guitars, I almost never play them, I have 12 mando type instruments varying from...

Amanda - While I don't keep a regular journal, I also make spread sheets of tunes I am working on or want to work on, or simply those I have in the bag, I found playing with a group you instantly...

Love that John McCutcheon Album, "if I was a FeatherBed" needs more air time

Bob Clark I agree, while playing fast usually involves repetitious practice, playing slow "expressively" really take either an innate voice or years and years of experience playing and performing...

People claim octave mandolin tuning will work on 19" scale , but I believe you really need 20" minimum to get good harmonics

The Celtic Star octave/mandolas (19") claim to work at either but I...

i highly recommend it - i only wish the jam along tracks were longer in duration

"Dawgmatism" off of DGQ 80' album - I believe there is plenty of tab out there for it ? Really nice chord progression in that.

couldn't find the original on line but there is Dawgwood version and...