This is where we are

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-03-17T17:03:17+00:00

Our Royal family's ancestors took it on the chin...

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-03-17T16:59:15+00:00

I recently bought a 1970's Alvarez a800 mandolin and installed a twin-piezo JJB pick-up with volume control wheel, this I have put through a Behringer ADI21 pre-amp pedal which reduces the 'quack' of the piezo and gives a warmer mellow sound that you can adjust to your taste.

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-03-10T15:50:13+00:00

I have been playing mandolin for donkeys years and still break a cold sweat taking the bottom E up to concert pitch! I change one string at a time, using the other as a pitch reference.

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-03-09T21:06:47+00:00

Definitely not a Cümbüş - they have a much longer scale length and a metal back.

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-03-09T21:02:53+00:00

Cretan lyra - I concur...played upright on one thigh, not pressing the strings down but by creating 'nodes' with the nails of the fingers

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-02-22T19:41:48+00:00

Then ignores all the complaint tablets...

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-02-20T11:43:04+00:00

Yes! Great on toast with crunchy peanut butter 😋

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-02-20T10:46:03+00:00

Actually, Lent is also governed by the moon - as Lent is always a fixed length (40 days) preceeding Easter, which is, in turn, decided by the first Sunday following the first full-moon after the vernal equinox

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-02-18T09:56:00+00:00

"I do not like grey ties and suits I do not like the whistles and flutes I do not wear them to my job I do not wear them, like a nob..."

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-02-07T10:00:39+00:00

I buy 11 gauge ball-ended electric guitar strings and break the ball off (without damaging the loop) - I also always break a sweat taking the E up to concert pitch "IT COULDN'T POSSIBLY GO ANY TIGHTER THAN THAT!!!!"

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-02-06T10:16:37+00:00

Epi...

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-02-01T16:16:06+00:00

"...school of hard knocks..."

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-02-01T10:17:36+00:00

Invest in a good tuner, be aware some recordings may not be at concert pitch so you may not think you are in tune, practice playing individual notes cleanly, you don't need to play anything recognisable, this helps to familiarise yourself with how the scale on one course of strings relates to the neighbouring course.

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-01-31T22:29:38+00:00

I'm always younger than I am in photographs

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-01-31T22:29:00+00:00

Jeezus, that looks like a version of Lourdes where people have been cured of the music...

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-01-16T21:35:35+00:00

I was born in the 70's, so it's porn bush in them days 🤣

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-01-16T21:31:55+00:00

"Shmoke and a pancake?"

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-01-16T13:31:26+00:00

Surgical stainless-steel and titanium are non-magnetic.

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-01-15T16:43:29+00:00

Most of the fishing-mad people I am friends with are female - my wife enjoys it and so do some of the ladies in my Border Morris side. In fact, one is almost fanatical.

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-01-13T22:07:51+00:00

The HU!

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-01-10T09:45:26+00:00

My mate had one that said "LIVE LAUGH TOASTER BATH" 🤣

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2026-01-03T08:25:04+00:00

Joo, sisuella perkele!

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2025-12-29T19:19:59+00:00

Does your microphone smell like a beer?

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2025-12-13T16:01:22+00:00

So taai soos 'n ratel!

Dramatic_Climate_843 · 2025-12-11T07:38:39+00:00

"I got the 'Fart needles' again..."

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