You can certainly hear it on this video.
https://youtu.be/d8kWikkgR4s
You can certainly hear it on this video.
https://youtu.be/d8kWikkgR4s
Yikes, you certainly can! Sounds like a Florida scoop is in order.
That thing needs a valve job.
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I'll never understand people who are all about pick click.
Yup. It's Floridaectomy time!
Last edited by DHopkins; Jun-27-2018 at 9:04pm. Reason: Correction
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The older I get, the less tolerant I am of political correctness, incompetence and stupidity.
Kinda like a metronome...lol
yeah, who needs a drummer
pick click aside, he makes that mandolin sound ok
IMHO, the pick is just another vibrating surface. When the pick moves the string, the string bends the pick, and when they release each other, they have energy to dissipate and this comes out as sound and heat.
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I hear that a lot on those extended fret boards. But Steven Cagle sure makes that Savanah sound good, except for the clicking.
No, it's time for the guy to learn to pick without hitting the fingerboard.
Notice how when the player picks single string passages he is almost moving the pick as much as when he strums a full chord.
That's why he's getting extra noise. It's not the fingerboard extension that is at fault, but sloppy picking.
Yes, it could be the "florida" that we are hearing but it could also be the fingernails on his right and hitting the top of the pickguard. He plays with a very loose and open hand.
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Last edited by Jim Garber; Jun-28-2018 at 12:56pm.
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My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
From what I remember, the late John Hartford got a very similar effect whilst playing his banjo!
I'm not sure why he is clicking the fretboard but he is actually a really good mandolin player and teacher and has traveled with big name bands. He is also a member of mandolin cafe. And as I mentioned earlier, I have listened to a lot of good players that hit that fretboard same way.
I hope to be that sloppy somedayIt's not the fingerboard extension that is at fault, but sloppy picking.
He probably plays regularly w/o that florida extension and just went at this one same as his own. Just guessing, but he has a pretty good right hand (for BG) to me
It's your picking,,I think your right hand is angled to much,,I notice you click on the downstroke,,hitting the fretboard...
I'm telling you all despite the clicking in this video this man can probably blow all of you away with his playing. I have heard him.
Last edited by mee; Jun-29-2018 at 7:28am.
You are right and I apologize, but the cafe has members of all levels of playing and has always been encouraging each other and I was bothered that someone is criticizing a member they don't even know over something so trivial. Instead it should be commenting on how beautiful he makes that cheap mandolin sound.
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