Re: Help! Drowned out by fiddles!
This is definitely a problem that many of us have. I'm a fiddler and mandolin player who wears hearing aids, and has given up on taking my mandolin to sessions, thereby adding one more loud fiddle. When you say a 'band," do you play out in the world? amplified or unamplified? With a little more detail, others may be able to give advice. I'm a mite concerned about one person in a band inviting another to join without consulting you, unless he or she is paying you a good salary. Have you talked with the "leader" about the fact that you can no longer hear your mandolin?
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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