Anyone polishing up Irish tunes or 20's romantic ballads? Was plucking some 20's swing jazz last night.
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 | mandogal says:
1/26/2014 12:04:56 PM
I'm working on Spanish Lady and The Foggy Dew. Not too romantic, but I like the sounds. I'm very much a novice.
I've also been learning a couple of other celtic tunes, The Skye Boat Song and Campbell's Farewell to Red Gap (simpler version!)
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 | Susanne says:
1/26/2014 2:34:05 PM
I'm playing some Irosh tunes but mainly on the concertina. I fixed up the octave mandolin recently though, so now I play that too :)
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 | TeachinMandolin444 says:
1/27/2014 1:46:15 PM
There's nothing wrong with a simpler,easier arrangement of a tune....they can be the most memorable! Susi-how much fixing did that octave mandolin need?
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| mandogal says:
1/27/2014 3:34:22 PM
Susi, Hi! I tried playing an octave mandolin at the Folklore Center in Denver. The sound was beautiful, but the frets were very wide apart. Are the frets on your octave mandolin like that?
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| mandogal says:
1/27/2014 3:36:45 PM
Sherrie, thanks for the encouragement. I'm really enjoying some tunes that I found on the Old Time Ozarks site. I take it that you play old time also.
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| Susanne says:
1/27/2014 3:42:41 PM
It didn't take too much work actually, I needed to adjust the intonation, and used the instructions my guitar dealer gave me about intonation on guitars. It worked :).
I have a nice octave mandolin that is rather compact, with a quite short neck length. I'm tiny and it goes ok to play it, fret-wise. But as for the neck length, I haven't played other octave mandolins, only bouzoukis.
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| TeachinMandolin444 says:
1/28/2014 9:28:03 AM
Mandogal,no problem on the encouragement. I love Old Time music! Shocked to hear about Pete Seeger passing.
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| mandogal says:
1/30/2014 3:21:35 PM
Susi, hmmm, what is meant by "intonation". It might be that I'm familiar with a different word for that. Your octave mandolin sounds nice. I also have small hands so the mandolin fretboard works well for me. I've looked at a couple of bouzoukis but never played one. Are they pretty similar to the mandolin
Oldtimebluesgirl - Yes, that was a shock about Pete Seeger. He was such an important part of the music scene. I notice that you have several mandos. Which ones do you have?
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| TeachinMandolin444 says:
2/1/2014 12:45:37 PM
Mandogal I have an Ovation Celebrity acoustic/electric,a Kentucky KM-140,and a JBP acoustic electric. I play the Kentucky most of the time and it is my "take along" mandolin.
Dug out my book of Irish tunes last night and am thinking about re learning "Geese In The Bog".
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| Susanne says:
2/2/2014 1:13:36 PM
Mandogal, I'm not sure how to explain it, you can read more about intonation on wikihow.com/Set-Your-Guitar's-Intonation.
The octave mandolin is like a mandolin but bigger, and smaller than a bouzouki. It has a similar sound to the bouzouki and that's what I like about it. It's so very pretty for Irish music.
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| mandogal says:
2/2/2014 3:49:24 PM
oldtimebluesgirl, I played a Kentucky KM-140 yesterday. Nice tone. I wasn't familiar with "Geese in the Bog" so I spent some time listening to it. Great jig!
Susi - Ah, harmonics, got it! I talked with someone who said the octave mandolin can be found with one of 3 different sizes of fretboards. Apparently the one that I saw at the Folklore Center had the longest fretboard. Beautiful sound, though.
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| TeachinMandolin444 says:
2/3/2014 7:25:29 AM
mandogal-I was surprised that from what I could see,KM-140's are still being made-I've had mine since about 2004. They do have an amazing tone-considering I shopped for one online without knowing much,I was most fortunate in picking that particular one.
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| mandogal says:
2/4/2014 10:16:32 PM
oldtimebluesgirl- We went shopping for an inexpensive mando a few months ago and picked up a used Kentucky. I think it's a KM 150. Good action and extremely good tone for the money. We wanted one for when we go camping or traveling.
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