I'll be 80 next month and arthritis is slowly creeping through me. Both thumbs suffer the most right now but it's showing in both feet, both knees and my left shoulder. I know the fingers can't be...
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I'll be 80 next month and arthritis is slowly creeping through me. Both thumbs suffer the most right now but it's showing in both feet, both knees and my left shoulder. I know the fingers can't be...
I can't remember all the brand names but I'll try to tell you what we use.
First, we use a Sound Town rack/road case. We modified to include an light and two power strips inside. On top is a...
That was one of the reasons we went to the wireless in-ear monitors. The youngest member of our band is 58 and the oldest is 79 and we're our own roadies. Some of that stuff gets heavy. I've...
Our band uses in-ear wireless monitors.
I have a solid-body electric mandolin. It had a "lipstick" pickup that I wasn't happy with. The space for it on the mandolin was triangular in shape like many Fender guitars. I contacted...
Yeah and you wanna know why I've never done it? I don't know. It's one of those things you put off for weeks or even months (or years) But, finally, you do it in 5 minutes but still don't learn...
I use a piece of a leather boot lace.
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It strikes me as sort of "gimmicky." If you just want to capo one or two strings, a spider capo might work. Sweetwater Music has them.
Why don't you just get a harp guitar? That'll give you about 20 strings to 1) tune and 2) tune to GDAE. That seems to have worked for a long time, now.
The action looks fine to me......if you're using a slide.
Over the years, I've found individual luthiers tend to make the better sounding instruments. They put their name on them which means you know who to thank or who to blame. In China, <Moderator...
I don't use a pedal. I only use a very slight bit of reverb and then only from the mixer. We're a small band and we're our own roadies. I handle the board so it's easy to make changes but it's...
Six strings?? xx880107 in your eBay listing is a six-string mandolin. That's six single courses. Am I out of touch or did someone miss Sesame Street when they covered 8s?
I've heard that the Isaacs gospel/country group tunes to A=400 instead of 440 and they put out some of the best music around. Their harmonies are outstanding.
"Factory Direct" doesn't sound particularly inviting to me in an industry that prides itself on it's hand-made instruments. Something like "straight from the shop" has a better ring to it.
Probably the best thing to get would be an LCD (liquid crystal diode) and not an LED (light emitting diode)screen screen. Usually, bright light doesn't affect an LCD as much.
That tuner that...
I don't think "doing something else" matters a whole lot. A fingerboard a month would be an overly-optimistic prediction but I still say, "Go for it." It's either this or discover a cure for the...
$$$$ to buy, $$$$ to train and $$$$ to maintain
Other than that, sure.
I agree with Tom. It's not cost effective.
BUT, go ahead and get the router. You can made all kinds of things for gifts or just for the heck of it. In the last 6 months or so, I made name...
Okay, go for it.
I'm also retired. I'll be 80 in April. I've been working with CNC routers and lasers for about 5 years. I have 2 routers and 5 lasers but I don't think I would do it. I...
I do CNC router and laser work. First, the non-industrial routers and lasers are quite accurate and the routers could easily handle slotting fingerboards. That's a minor problem. I've never done...
Eddie Blevins in Blountville, TN, made an f-style octave mandolin for me and knocked it out of the park. It came with a custom Cedar Creek case. He makes "regular" mandolins also. I've never...
Condenser mics require power. The power usually comes from the mixer. I also have a DCode PS-1A with XLR in and out that is designed to produce phantom power for mics when it's not available from a...
How do you evaluate guitars and mandolins to determine equivalence? It's seems like comparing a clarinet and a trumpet.