A friend ,who plays guitar, has problems with arthritis in his thumb. His doctor recommended making the pick wider, which he has done with corn plasters (plasters for corns), he says it helps.
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A friend ,who plays guitar, has problems with arthritis in his thumb. His doctor recommended making the pick wider, which he has done with corn plasters (plasters for corns), he says it helps.
You could try Belmuse https://www.belvoirguitars.co.uk/pickups in the UK, they say they do Mandobird replacements.
Thanks Eoin, good to hear these as I was supposed to be there but white van man had other ideas :(
I put my OM in a banjo case, you might find one to fit your Hora.
I went with this hard foam case...
This Nicola Calace is up for auction in Minnesota (NFI)
203803
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Lovely instrument, I keep think about one of these, what scale length and string gauges did you use?
Thanks, what do the little flags by the key signature mean?
Thanks for the video John, but am I brave enough to run the test on my Calace :disbelief:
I am enjoying playing it today, so maybe not.
Cool tune thanks :)
I don't know right from wrong, but for what it's worth I would slide the g - g# and alternate pick the run down.
My banjo killer is a banjo
a mandolin banjo ;)
I might have to give in and use an amp with the OM though, the G string really gets lost.
https://youtu.be/CZme5SwFJyI
This is rather lovely, there are two other videos in the series.
Nice, I have a Windsor Pyxe that I was given a few years ago, it gets quite a lot of use as it means I don't have to lug an amp about. It will be 'delighting' the audience at a local craft market on...
I though I'd share my label, the different thing is that the address is crossed out, maybe the company moved around 1916 and they were using up some old ones.
194867
For reference, here is the...
I have got both :grin:
I have a vintage Windsor Pyxe that I was given. When we could still do them I started taking it along to folk band practice and it worked really well, I don't need an amp...
I use a cheap & cheerful Aklot AMT-560 tuner/metronome that I got from ebay. Works well as a metronome, even gives you a flashing light and sweeping metronome hand, I think it was around a fiver.
I painted the fat end of my Dogals with my daugher's nail varnish for just that reason.
You could try Gallis too, quite a bit bigger than the Dogal but I like them.
Good one, what do you play it with to make a set? I tend to put it after 'The Maid Behind the Bar'.
Thanks Jim, great video, I want to put my dancing shoes on. We did play it at that sort of speed in the evening session, but I had the accordion player to cover up all my fluffs.
It seems like...
I learnt this at a folk week last year, but the tutor didn't know it's name.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVmUw7mXo2s
Sorry about the gurning :disbelief:
FWIW I am running .016, .024, .032, .052 on my 20" Buchanan, which it seems happy with, although the recommended gauges are .016, .024, .036, .054.
We posted a set of English Jigs the other week :
https://youtu.be/5WHgdU9U67g
For me the most English of them is the 'Lincolnshire Poacher' if only because we were taught it as a song in...
We made another video, still mostly non mandolin, I have defected to tenor banjo, but there is a rather nice Flatiron on here.
https://youtu.be/ibEfogkDUdA
I learnt using the Ranieri books, after an ad hoc grounding in folk, and would tend to play that era of music in his style and anything else with much less tremolo -although one lady did accuse me of...
It's one of the plainer models, and I'm not sure how well the ones from the '60s are rated, but it's not new and not antique so maybe it's that. I have seen 'nearly new' basic models for less. I have...
Yes, I have always liked the styling of those and the back and sides look to be of lovely pieces of wood. The workshop is worth a visit, I had my banjo fettled there, very evocative.