RE: Our First Gig

2009-04-09 Thread Dennis Fehling
Right on, isn't is a blast? I remember mine. We got free bags of coffee. Keep up the good work and have fun doing it. Dennis When will the madness stop. Spay and Neuter your pets EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me > Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 18:50:08 -0700 > Subject: Ou

RE: Our First Gig

2009-04-09 Thread Dennis Fehling
Right on, isn't is a blast? I remember mine. We got free bags of coffee. Keep up the good work and have fun doing it. Dennis When will the madness stop. Spay and Neuter your pets EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD Join me > Date: Thu, 9 Apr 2009 18:50:08 -0700 > Subject: Ou

Our First Gig

2009-04-09 Thread sgarrity
We did it!! The Stringbenders played our first gig tonight. The local arts outreach program is sponsoring a singer/songwriter festival this weekend and we played out in front of the theater as people arrived for the main concert. I mainly played guitar but I pulled the Kimble oval out for WBB,

Re: Loud Jamming

2009-04-09 Thread Fred
You can even go one decibel notch louder with the commodium: http://jazzmando.com/keith_carey.shtml. I got one of these for Christmas and while the tone is absolutely great for old string band blues and jug band music, its volume is banjo-killer. Two or more of these babies in a room would b

RE: Loud Jamming

2009-04-09 Thread Rich DelGrosso
I forgot to say, they are playing resonators :) But you know you can't dictate what others will play and how loud. You can try to appeal to esthetics and acoustics. Then you stay or you go. -Original Message- From: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com [mailto:taterbugma...@googlegroups.com] On

Re: Pick control

2009-04-09 Thread Topher Gayle
I suppose you'll get lots of differing opinions on this. Here's my brain-dump on the subject of tremolo. The way I do it, the pick angle is pretty much just the same as when I pick regularly, about 15 degrees off from the axis of the strings. Usually I point it down, but sometimes up (the way Joh

Re: Loud Jamming

2009-04-09 Thread Topher Gayle
Of course if everybody starts playing reso mandolins, the guitarists will start playing resonators and soon we'll be worse off than we were before, sonically. Acoustic Armageddon! (Ooh - cool name for a jam band, I think) Topher On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Topher Gayle wrote: > This cert

Re: Loud Jamming

2009-04-09 Thread Topher Gayle
This certainly works for, too. Mine is a home-made 5-string resonator mandolin (Rich, I can't wait to hear you try it in July at CCMC) - I take the bridge cover off so I can palm-mute it when I don't want to blast your fillings out. The single light strings are also really easy on the fingers - yo

RE: Loud Jamming

2009-04-09 Thread Dennis Fehling
RIch I don't think you would have trouble being heard over and f-16 couple your mandolin and your voice and project a pretty formidable jam opponent (: Dennis www.friendsforlifedogtraining.com When will the madness stop. Spay and Neuter your pets EMAILING FOR THE GREATER GOOD

Re: Loud Jamming

2009-04-09 Thread The Holstein Kid
Hi John J, I've struck this myself recently when I was invited to a regular Wednesday night jam. A regular member of the jam was playing a 12 string guitar and in a world of his own. At first I thought he was kidding by hitting it so hard, but then I realised that he didn't have a clue. After a fe

Pick control

2009-04-09 Thread Tim
Qestion: When playing tremolo does the pick change slightly from the "point" end to the more broader side of the edge? This seems like the pick doesn't get hung up as much when playing tremolo. Do most players do this as a rule? Or is it more of changing the pick angle from perpendicular to the

RE: Loud Jamming

2009-04-09 Thread Rich DelGrosso
Dennis, I play a National Resonator mandolin, one of their new ones. I call it the "jaminator." I take it with me when I work the camps and find myself in jams with guitar, piano and harmonica. I never have trouble being heard. Think about it. Rich From: taterbugmando@googlegroups.com