Always make sure that anything you buy from Amazon is shown as "Ships from and sold by Amazon.com." Amazon also acts as a portal for other sellers, and sometimes does shipping for other sellers. If...
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Always make sure that anything you buy from Amazon is shown as "Ships from and sold by Amazon.com." Amazon also acts as a portal for other sellers, and sometimes does shipping for other sellers. If...
Scott,
I love your classified service, and use it often, both to find instruments, and to sell instruments. Normally, when I have something to sell, I list it simultaneously on Mandolin Cafe, eBay...
Might I recommend shorter set screws for the bridge pieces? Those are going to dig into your hand terribly.
I have been friends with Stefan Sobell for 27 years, I took a number of the photos on his website, and, according to Stefan, up until last year, I owned more Sobell instruments than anyone else. I...
Stefan Sobell's standard mandola has a scale length of 20.5". I used to own one, and it was, hands down, one of the best-sounding mandolas I have ever encountered. For what I do, it put my Kimble to...
It's a love song to his country, Algeria.
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You've got some hurdles to get over. First, the Portuguese Guitar is MUCH more lightly built than a mandola. The strings uses on a mandola would crush a Portuguese Guitar. Second, typical Portuguese...
I have never seen a score of any Nuba, but CDs are available. There is a series of them on Ocora records out of France. They all feature the words Nuba (Nûba) and Algeria (d'Alger) in the title. ...
Almost always with a guitar-style flat pick, though I have seen a few people using oud picks on them.
The Mandole is typically used in Nuba (Algerian Classical music), Chaabi and Kabylian music. Nuba is the original music of Arabo-Andalusia, and is still popular today in Algeria. It is serious...
My cat Tazi liked to occupy my Weissenborn case when it was empty. Neither the Weissenborn nor Tazi are still around, and I miss them both.