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That Eva Holbrook video is fantastic, she's a great player. One thing that I love about YouTube is discovering that some random bloke making videos in his bedroom is amazing. Case in point is this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdCLeST3BvY. I mainly play celtic music, and he's the best mandolin player of Irish tunes that I've ever heard.
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Bilirubin posted:There are some amazing self recording and producing mandolinists in Irish/Scottish music, Daggar Gordon and Kevin MacLeod being two examples I know. Thanks, I'll have to look into them. One of the main reasons I moved to playing the mandolin is that it's a fairly quiet instrument and so is easy to practice without annoying the neighbours. However, this also means that in any decent sized session it becomes very difficult to be heard. Even using a thick plectrum, I find myself having to hammer on the instrument. At the moment I'm using a fairly heavily built oval hole flat-top A-style Paul Hathway mandolin. I'm wondering if volume changes significantly as you move into 'fancier' territory: thinner tops, carved top/back etc. F hole mandolins do seem to cut through better, though I prefer the oval hole tone. Has anyone played an oval hole that they'd call loud?
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