A Closer Look at the Magic Fluke FIREFLY 5-String Banjo
A little Get-Cha Started Background: For some time I have been envious of great clawhammer banjo players. I love how “Clucky” and mellow their sound is, how they deliver simple bit elegant melodies that get stuck in my head, and ...
4 Good Reasons to Tune Your Soprano Uke in 5ths, and 1 Great One
Fun factoid…. Avocados are not a vegetable. They are a berry. A single seeded berry. So if an avocado ain’t gotta be what it (obviously) is, then a ukulele can be a mandolin! That is to say that a soprano ...
Pickin’ in Open D and DADGAD Guitar Tuning
Spice it up a notch Sometimes, my guitar pickin’ all sounds the same, and sooo… “predictable.” At least it sounds that way to me, and that ain’t no fun. A quick way to spice it up is with a new ...
B-Flat Tenor Uke Set Up
Just a quick note about my tenor ukulele set up that I thought y’all might like to try… Y’all ever head the old axiom, “when you are a hammer, the whole world looks like a nail?” Such is the life ...
Installing the Bridge Doctor? READ THIS FIRST!
A sure-fire way to address mild to moderate belly bulge on a 12-string guitar, is the JLD Bridge Doctor. There are lots of great blog posts and YouTube videos that walk ya through the installation of the Bridge Doctor. I ...
Creole Cross Mandolin Tuning
My Dad’s friend Baptiste was a fiddling wizard. This feller was old! He remembered when Methuselah had a paper route, and he knew every alternate tuning that was ever sawed across a fiddle. My favorite was what he called the ...
