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  1. Re: I need address of Eastman Mandolin Mfg.

    Eastmanguitars.com is the web page that includes mandolins and all other fretted instruments they make—look to the menu at the bottom of the homepage for contact info.
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    Re: Best Place to Shop For Mandolins

    Eastman 604 might be a good choice, but I will agree with rcc56 that you won’t go wrong with an Eastman 505. A lot of people will pitch the Eastman 300 line but the 500 and up series are definitely...
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    Re: Rearranging strings on a mandolin?

    The brilliance of mandolin is largely due to the GDAE / fifths all across tuning.

    Don’t be discouraged by that stupid bluegrass trad four-stretched-fingers G formation. It’s ideal for...
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    Re: The Sleeping Tune (Gordon Duncan)

    Nice job Jairo! It’s nagging at my memory now—have we heard this in a film or TV soundtrack? The phrase starting at :53 seems especially familiar.
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    Re: Small Travel Size Mandolin

    Seagull S8 is a real mandolin, kind of an in-between size (in between a standard A-style body size, and the slightly-wider-than-the-neck officially portables. But you can certainly pack it inside a...
  6. Re: A Question for Thomastic Infeld Aficionados

    Hi Barry. Yes I have been using TI mediums for a couple of years on that very model. Do you have one too? We should compare them in person sometime. Mine’s a 2011.

    The TI’s are truly…well I used...
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    Re: Octave Mandolin string choices (MDO305)

    Having gotten hooked on the TI’s on my mando, I tried a set of the TI OM strings—in fact billed as “Mandola” but evidently using the UK nomenclature (that’s not what this post is about) on my Trinity...
  8. Re: A Question for Thomastic Infeld Aficionados

    Careful Ray, they are habit-forming, then you need to have more on hand for spares…those TI’s are truly great strings though. But very different.
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    Re: I would like to find a beater

    Eastman 505. Well worn since 2009.
    I got a Seagull S8 as a “travel mando” in 2016 but it never gets played now, I have concluded that the concept of a travel mando is oxymoronic, they are compact by...
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    Re: Sir Patrick Spens

    Well done sir! I am interested in how you got that perfect crunchy Richard Thompson electric guitar sound…
  11. Re: Were Eastman MD-604 CS (2011) models F-shaped?

    Negative. That would be a 615 for F-body and F-holes.

    The x14 Eastman, whatever the first number, is always an F (scroll) body with an oval soundhole.

    One thing about Eastman, they have...
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    Re: Grover A style tuner

    Howdy neighbour. Canadian Tire?

    Welcome to the Cafe. What Mando are your Grovers on?
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    Re: A couple of new mandolins

    Thanks for listing the Art Deco in the Classifieds, Martin. I’m window-shopping as usual, but it’s a fascinating, subtly unique instrument and I would say quite reasonably priced.
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    Re: Info on Eastman 304 or 504 oval holes

    When you say “any Eastman” what models do you mean? Big difference between the 300-series—which I personally indeed find a bit tinny (I’m guessing that’s the word you meant to type) but I played a...
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    Re: Case handle replacements?

    Probably not what you’re after, but for the functional/funky effect I like, I enjoy carving pre-curved pieces of driftwood to fit my hand and the attachment points on the case, and attaching them...
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    Re: Another mandolin stand question

    After decades of trial and error and.a couple of disasters, I have concluded that no stand is perfect. They are just like life, like gigs, and like political practitioners; they all make promises...
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    Re: whither 1 3/32" nut widths?

    Pretty standard nut size. I’d say it’s because they wanted to build trad style carved top mandolins and not cater to the (apologies in advance, sort of) “I’m a guitar player so…” crowd
  18. Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer

    I’d go with the file name on the jpeg: 100dollar-usstrad
  19. Re: The mandolin: Instrument of the year, 2023

    Well that’s a better review than the Oxford Companion to Music gives them…(see sig below). And this recognition coming from the classical ‘verse is a positive imho ;/=
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    Re: Is this a really really wide nut?

    Peter’s a great guy, is he still building? I have a very pleasing mandola he made in the 90s. With a narrower neck than that—it’s 1 3/16”. (And there’s nothing wrong with his handmade nuts.)

    I was...
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    Re: What do you think of this?

    I like every thing about this!

    Play what you love!

    I like the Mando part!
  22. Re: Johnny Olenn & The Blockbusters (Mandocaster)

    Aw c’mon, you gotta give credit for the incredible one-handed Mandocaster solo while cuttin a rug.
    I think we are hearing the Mandocaster. You can get a good twang out of them, especially with 50s...
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    Re: Sawchyn Mandola: Jeannie o Bethelnie

    Thanks for the kind words!
    To complete the missing surname from the original post, my source was Dick Gaughan, 1978 album “Gaughan”.
    Four weeks past shoulder operation, I’ve started playing the...
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    Re: Sawchyn Mandola: Jeannie o Bethelnie

    Speaking of which, I added a harmonica track.

    https://youtu.be/FMQYIQhADNE
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    Re: Mandolin Tuner App

    I use Tuner+ on my iPad when at home or as backup if the stupid battery gives out on the clip on.
    Con: not interactive, you have to use your ears.
    Pro: has setting for 9 different instruments...
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