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Forty-four years ago I purchased a Gibson F-5, Serial #A17518, from Stutzman's Guitar Center here in Rochester. My first (turned out to be my only) bluegrass band had just broken up, but I knew that...

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I have studied this subject extensively over the years. My F5Journal, if you have ever seen the print version documents the entire metamorphosis for F5 Mandolin peghead inlay. In general, the...

I feel like someone who knows what superheroes look like in their disguises.

The project is finished recording, should be done with mastering for release next week. Here's the final preview from the project, Paul McCartney's sweet song in solo arrangement. Single mic, Shure...

Sutton Mutton by Carl Kress


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Actually, the tailpiece was designed to keep the instrument cost down and to enhance player comfort. Because the Sweet Pea has such a small body, I felt that having a tailpiece stick up over the top...

I revisited this happy tune that seems to be about a debonair movie star. I'm using a flatpick and emulating Leo Kottke's finger-picking. Recorded with just my Shure KSM 32, this is another preview...

The LiuQin is the closest Chinese instrument to the mandolin. I think one of the tunings they use is GDAE. I wonder if anyone has bought one either from an importer in the US or directly from China...

I don't post here much, but so many things went wrong and had to be overcome to complete this pair of parlor guitars that I felt like showing them to someone.
A matched pair, one rosewood one...

Hello everyone!

I just wanted to share with you a jazzy song for two mandolins and fake audience that I've written. It's been a lot of fun!

Best,

Isaac

Here's a little webapp I've been working on for some time (version 3 now, rebuilt from scratch.)

If you've ever struggled to understand what modes "look like" and how they are constructed, this is...

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Chuck, that was awesome! I love it!

And Merry Christmas and happy holidays from us too:)


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I told myself that I would not get involved in this thread, having been admonished not to if I can't "think outside the box" (which, to me, roughly translates as "reinvent the wheel").
I've been a...

Yes, a new Weber Special Edition and several new professional violas.

I don’t think it helps the case to maintain flattops are different from archtops. If wood improves because of the vibration it...

I was watching some vids of Bill Evans today and came across this video teaching chord voicings in his style.



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Thought I'd write out mandolin...

Another contributing reason is the sharp inside corner, where that top is relieved for the adjuster wheels, causing a stress riser. I now cut that to round, rather than a sharp corner, on my bridges.

The Alec Finn programme is very good.
https://www.tg4.ie/en/programmes/se-mo-laoch/

You might want to take a look at this page. Gregg Miner put it up years ago.

Rick Turner talks about them and their guitars on this page.

When I first came to the Cafe I posted some wrong...

Madame Mary (Travers) Bolduc (1894-1941), known as "La Bolduc", was a very popular folk musician and recording artist in Quebec. As well as playing fiddle and harmonica, she composed songs in the...

Long live Chuck Berry



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Johann Sebastian Bach: "Das musikalische Opfer" (The Musical Offering), BWV 1079
Canon a 2 cancrizans (Crab Canon)

This is one of the most mathematically elegant of Bach's pieces, from the...

Jeremiah Clarke (1674-1707): "A Trumpett Minnuett"
From "A Choice Collection of Ayres For the Harpsichord or Spinett" (1700)

This is a short keyboard piece, possibly originally intended for...

George Bingham: "40 Air Anglois pour la flute a un dessus & une basse, Livre Troisième"
Published in Amsterdam by Pierre Mortier, 1704/05
Air # 19

This is an air written by the English music...