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That’s Dean Brown, he’s been with Tim for about 25 years.

Tony boldly took the bluegrass guitar where no bluegrass guitar had gone before --- a cause and effect of his participation on the first couple of David Grisman Quintet albums. I still find his...

You pays your money and you takes your chances.

https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/111154-Humidipak-WARNING

Delighted to see the mention of Michael Daves in this week’s issue of The New Yorker, where a profile on actor Ethan Hawke described Michael coaching Hawke on voice and mando for his role as Ira...

I just finished installing the NF/Gilchrist tailpiece on my NF5-S. The install was very easy, and the holes line up perfectly. The replacement screws allowed me to tighten everything down snugly. ...

Okay, I didn't mean to ruffle any feathers... and I certainly didn't imagine that the word "lazy" could cause such, especially when I explained that I meant he took the "path of least resistance"...

That's an interesting question... most good music writing I've run into have been interesting rather than entertaining, and the current academic style is to hold back from turning history into a...

I just got an email from the local bluegrass society for an upcoming screening of this documentary, so it must have finished already. Wondering when and where I can get a DVD copy soon.
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One of my favorites.

Finally the "The" is getting the credit it has long been due.

Makers come and go, but the "The" remains, steadfast, original in its simplicity, and omnipresent at the pointy end of the mandolin...

Not much sounds this good

http://vimeo.com/45734296

The finished peghead for a Lyon and Healy mandolin.

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Some rags and cakewalks published during the ragtime era in the string oriented periodicals and by publishers who specialized in string music were probably not published for piano.

Some useful...

Gershwins Prelude 2 strikes me as a somewhat peculiar idea of ragtime. Maybe Afternoon of a Faun rag next.

But back to some mandolin content and where ragtime/blues/jazz touches old-time/country....

I would almost unambiguously put it into jazz, swing, blues, etc. category.

I can see an argument for the old-time, early country bin, but even when you think about the more basic country rags,...

Couple of things:

First, the total area of two typical mandolin ff-holes is about 4.0 sq. in. The area of most of the vintage mandolin oval holes I have measured has been in the 3.0 sq. in....

I am not sure what "pop" means - if it does mean a strong percussive projection, then the answer is no; for instance, banjos without a resonator back have that also, but they haven't really a...

"I would not expect Helmholtz effects to dominate the sound of a mandolin."

As Bertram pointed out, you have to make profound changes in either the total ff-hole area, the body volume, or both to...

I ran across this little youtube video of the gathering of 4 of Virginia's top builders of mandolins,fiddles and guitars getting together for a little jam recording session during the fall of this...

Slightly OT, but I just stumbled across this experiment of syncing metronomes. Tells a lot about coupled oscillators in general, and maybe two strings of a course in particular:

See what you make of this idea, I think it's pretty great (via Daily Beast)

http://thebea.st/WQ4c2p

Here's my number 17 in the white... in the red? It was pretty muddy, as I had made the body significantly deeper on this one. Adding a side sound port balanced it out. Still has some final sanding...

from our latest, and now sold out, EP.
http://vimeo.com/55110099

This is pretty good if you are a Muleskinner fan, or even if you are just a human. Clear your schedule for the next 25 minutes.

Well, here's #15 strung up. Unfortunately, the varnish is still imprinting a month after application. I may have gotten a bad batch, and will probably have to refinish this instrument anyway. It was...