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Various links   Page 1 Find on this page Press Enter to find. In Netscape, repeat Enter for further occurrences In Internet Explorer, Ctrl + Home, click in the box again, then Enter for next occurrence Free JavaScripts provided by The JavaScript Source Mandolin shirt at Muckler Design Studio http://mds.homestead.com/MandolShirts.html Bryan Kimsey's music pages include a variety of pics and sound clipshttp://www.bryankimsey.com/music/music_intro.htm The Sound of Bill - mp3 examples of Bill Monroe's mandolin playing http://www.thesoundofbill.150m.com/index.htm Jim Coon's Sounds of the Mandolin page http://members.tripod.com/Liteways/ The Plucked String Foundation is a non-profit organization formed to aid the mandolin http://www.mandolincafe.com/strings/psf.html Have you made it in music? See Danny Barnes' comments at http://www.dannybarnes.com/musiclie.html More Danny Barnes on music at http://www.dannybarnes.com/onmusic.html How to record vinyl records to MP3 files and Audio CDs http://www.br0wn.co.uk/vinyltocd.htm New blues mandolin site at http://de.geocities.com/bluesmandolinman/ Eliza's Country Music News has some interesting comments and reviews http://asuuser18ga.tripod.com/ Archived shows at Testing, Testing http://www.electricedge.com/testingtesting/archive.htm Home page of MusicMoz directory - great resource! http://musicmoz.org/ Commendation of Mike Compton by the State of Mississippi Mandolin Cafe message board http://www.mandolincafe.net/ Screensavers at MandoZine Tuning topics at Peterson strobe tuners http://www.petersontuners.com/news/ttopics/index.cfm "The world of Irish, Scottish, old time and bluegrass music" has lots of useful links http://musician.dyndns.org/ Albert and Mueller have a variety of goodies for mandolin players http://www.albert-mueller.de/English/Start.html Pics from Old Fiddlers Convention, Galax http://www.oldfiddlersconvention.com/photos.htm Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour archive of audio shows And video archives (including Ralph Stanley, Chris Thile, Del McCoury and others) Michael Jonathon's Woodsongs home page Matthew Fox's MP3 and MIDI files of original and traditional tunes for guitar and mandolin http://www.matthewfox11.homestead.com/tunes.html Country music on the web from CMT.com http://www.cmt.com/av/ Mike Shellans' Mando Mania page some nice pics and useful links http://www.mikeshellans.com/Mando_Mania.htm Guitar flatpick MP3s by Robert Shafer http://home.att.net/~flatpicker/Mp3.htm Virtual folk music sessions at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/folk/acoustic_club/launch.shtml Country Music..."Born and bred in the U.S.A." at http://www.countrygoldusa.com/index.html Listen to archived shows of "improvisational interactive music" at Testing Testing http://www.electricedge.com/testingtesting/archive.htm Mando links at ClickMusic and Bluegrass links at Click Music. Also try their home page for music related searches http://www.clickmusic.co.uk/ Cecil Sharp collecting in the Appalachians - long article by Mike Yates with old photos http://mustrad.org.uk/articles/shar_txt.htm The roots of American fiddle music - lots of useful links and CD of 320 tunes in MP3 form http://www.1001tunes.com/ The Max Hunter Collection of almost 1600 Ozark Mountain folk songs, recorded between 1956 and 1976 - audio recordings and lyric transcriptions available on line at http://146.7.8.8/folksong/maxhunter/ The Session is a site for sharing tunes, recordings and links in Irish music http://www.thesession.org/ Painting of mandolin by John Sauer courtesy of Rob Coleman http://www.robcoleman.com/painting.htm Ralph Rinzler Folklife Archives and Collections at the Smithsonian http://www.folklife.si.edu/CFCH/coll.htm#rinzler Introduction to Greek rebetiko music at http://www.rembetiko.gr/intro.htm The "only site on the www dedicated to the fabulous women who make the rebetiko famous" http://www.violetta.demon.co.uk/ A Prairie Home Companion webcast page http://phc.mpr.org/netcast/index.html Sugar In The Gourd has old time music "all the time" in MP3 format http://sugarinthegourd.com/ Also check their links page http://sugarinthegourd.com/links.html Bob Green's educational programmes in traditional music http://home.igc.org/~bgreen/Education.htm RCA cartridge tapes info http://www.pastremasters.com/tape/RCACartridgeTapes.html Stained glass guitars - and a mandolin! http://www.detnet.com/stnarts/guitars/ The Village Music Project at Salford University http://www.performance.salford.ac.uk/research/vmp/ Mandolin screensavers from Mandozine Simply Folk on Wisconsin Public Radio - check their playlists http://www.wpr.org/simplyfolk/ Mando pics from days gone by, courtesy Jim Garber Tunings for 19 tone equal tempered guitar The equal-tempered scale and some peculiarities of piano tuning, by Jim Campbell http://www.izzy.net/~jc/PSTInfo/Temper.html Also precision strobe tuners http://www.izzy.net/~jc/PSTInfo/PSTInfo.html Alternative tunings e-mail list http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tuning/ Graham's Microtonal Website http://www.microtonal.co.uk/ An introduction to historical tunings, by Kyle Gann http://home.earthlink.net/~kgann/histune.html Just Intonation Network http://www.justintonation.net Definitions of tuning terms by Joseph L Monzo http://www.ixpres.com/interval/dict/ Perfect pitch could be genetic Honking Duck - includes hundreds of old-time 78s in streaming RealAudio format http://www.honkingduck.com/ Pic of Jennifer Lopez with mandolin at http://hem.bredband.net/matasp/bilder/jennifer.jpg Virtual Gypsy Jazz - has "gipsy jazz songs in MP3 format for everybody to burn on audio CD" http://djangoweb.hbesoftware.com/details.html University of California Absolute pitch study includes an on-line auditory test http://perfectpitch.ucsf.edu/ Gypsy swing links and lots of other stuff at Harmonious Wail site http://www.wail.com/surfhw.htm My Mandolin Journey - Carol Haagensen puts her thoughts on line and includes some useful links http://freepages.music.rootsweb.com/~mandolin/ Dan'l's Guitar and Mandolin Links http://home.mindspring.com/~dnestler/links.htm CoMando links page http://www.co-mando.com/resources/links/index.cfm Excellent series of articles on understanding music and musicianship at http://halgalper.com/13_arti/_0_arti.htm Hal Galper's home page http://www.halgalper.com/ Map of Ireland at Pangnostic Inc marking locations of places in tune titles (e.g. The Lass of Ballintra) http://www.pangnostic.com/ireland/ Jazz links at the International Association for Jazz Education site http://www.iaje.org/links.asp FAQ on minidisc long play (MDLP) http://minidisc.org/mdlpfaq.html#_q56 MP3s and CDs at http://efolkmusic.com/ Wide variety of links at Sandy's Music http://sandysmusic.com/links.html Bluegrass mandolin club at Yahoo (includes a chat room) http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/bluegrassmandolin CoMando case stickers http://www.artosdesign.com/CoMando/CoSticker.html Dix Bruce's Musix website - lots of goodies including teaching courses, back issues of Mandolin World News and Dawg picks plus developing library of music which can be downloaded in Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. http://www.musixnow.com/ Calace classical mandolin site http://www.calace.it/ Xitel's Hi-Fi Links connect your computer to your home stereo, turning signals from your PC into high-quality sound http://www.xitel.com/hifilinks/hifilinks.htm Classical mandolin MIDI files at http://www.kamakuranet.ne.jp/~h-ikemy/io_ma.htm A Korean page with .asf files (Windows Media Player can do these) of classical mandolin pieces http://calace.new21.org/mandolin/music.html Country music video requests at http://www.country.com/cmt/request/mwl.jhtml The Ryegrass band site includes a useful links page http://www.ryegrassband.com/ San Francisco Bay Area CoMando Gathering January 6, 2002 by Jon Sievert - lots of interest including nice pics http://www.humblepress.com/CoMando/index.html LucyTuning - "setting tuning and harmonic standards into the future" http://www.harmonics.com/lucy/index.html Microtonal Synthesis - lots of stuff about scales and intonation http://home.att.net/~microtonal/index.html Links to many different sytems of tuning at http://home.att.net/~microtonal/scales.html What does "well-tempered" mean? http://www.bachfaq.org/welltemp.html The Mandolin - a brief history by Indian mando maestro Sri U. Shrinivas http://www.chembur.com/live/usrinivas.htm Sri U. Shrinivas' home page at http://mandolinshrinivas.org/frame.htm A brief overview of mandolins by George Gruhn http://www.gruhn.com/articles/mandos.html Links to help you learn by ear from your favourite recordings http://www.reedkotler.com/ Don't leave your instrument in contact with vinyl! Mel Martin's Jazz and Saxophone website at http://www.melmartin.com/index2.html Lots of musical concepts which are worth the attention of any musician eg http://www.melmartin.com/html_pages/Articles/song.html Steve Kaufman Acoustic Kamp details for 2002 (n.b. Mandolin Camp - June 19-23, 2002) http://www.firebottle.com/flatpik/kamp2002 Jam Central Station for improvising musicians everywhere - includes MIDI backing tracks http://www.visionmusic.com/jamtracks.html Audio clips of Radim Zenkl playing a John Sullivan F5 mandolin plus mando construction details/pics http://www.lpb.com/mando/sullivan/ Jazz links at the International Association for Jazz Education site http://www.iaje.org/links.asp Mandocrucian Boot Camp with Niles Hokkanen in northern Virginia, 22nd-25th April 2002 and Mandolin Making Workshop 25th-28th March http://www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/northern/adult.html The Rockabilly Hall of Fame ("the most popular rockabilly site on the Internet") is at http://www.rockabillyhall.com/ They have a page on guitar player Grady Martin (who died recently) and bassist Bob Moore http://www.rockabillyhall.com/BobGradyFC.html There's more on Grady Martin at http://www.nashvillesound.net/gradymartin.htm And a page on Bob Moore at http://www.nashvillesound.net/ Site of French band Distant Shores - Irish music (including some MP3s) and links http://home.nordnet.fr/~jfperroy/welcome.htm The Pub at Mandolin Cafe currently has an interview with Niles Hokkanen and other goodies http://www.mandolincafe.com/pub.html Old-Time Music home page - lots of news and links http://www.oldtimemusic.com/ Links to old time music and dance sites at http://homepage.mac.com/philg2/GoDancing.html Lots of mando links at Terry Holland's site Video clip of the Del McCoury Band plus other appearances of interest at http://www.pbs.org/klru/austin/tvschedule/index.html Strum Hollow Acoustic Muisc - some interesting old time music pages http://www.strumhollow.com/ John Relph has some useful musical links (including old time and fiddle) at http://idiot-dog.com/relph/music.html Seth Austen and Beverly Woods' site - some interesting pics of mandos and other instruments, useful links page and other interesting stuff including klezmer ensemble http://www.sethausten.com/links.html How Frank Wakefield painted his Loar with engine paint http://www.mossware.com/story006.html The Portland Collection - contra dance music in the Pacific Northwest, also links to other composer and dance sites http://home.teleport.com/~songer/ KGB are a contradance band (with mando) who have recordings and a tune book for sale, also contradance links http://www.kgbmole.com/kgb/index.html Mandolin and bandolim on Acoustic Blend by Judy Handler and Mark Levesque http://home.earthlink.net/~guitarduo/index.html Robyn Jesson - bluegrass fiddle player, her site includes some RealAudio tracks http://www.robynjesson.com/index1.html Bruce Harvie's Mandolin Graffiti pages, including sound and links http://www.bruceharvie.com/ AcousticMusic "works to promote acoustic music and acoustic music venues" http://www.acousticmusic.com/ November Smithsonian Magazine page - lots of roots music interest Roanoke/Fincastle Special Souvenir Program from Nov. 27, 1965 http://www.candlewater.com/FIN/ (and lots of multimedia stuff on this page, though not from 1965!) Living Traditions "is in the forefront of preserving and presenting community based Yiddish culture to new and enthusiastic generations" http://www.klezkamp.org/ The Museum of Musical Instruments home page and page about Lloyd Loar - long download times for these pages but worth it. Second String will send your used strings to musicians in developing countries http://www.cyberstage5.com/secondstring.html Leon Kagarise's recordings and pictures of country and bluegrass history Twangin! - site for traditional, classic and newfangled cool country http://www.steamiron.com/twangin/index.html Free on-line video clips of the Frank Wakefield Band performing at Bean Blossom, Indiana, June 13th and 14th, 2001 http://www.rentalfilm.com/rv10/ and Larry Sparks and the Lonesome Ramblers, June 15th 2001 http://www.rentalfilm.com/rv11/ Delnero Family site - lots of bluegrass and musical links plus mando pics and RealAudio http://www.delnero.com/music/ Blues Topsites - links to "the best blues sites on the Net" http://www.topsitelists.com/bestsites/Blues/topsites.html Terry Holland's Banjo and Bluegrass pages - interesting variety of links, including mandolin http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/terry_holland/ Lots of resources and links for guitar, mando and other instruments, on Studio Covers links page http://www.studiocovers.com/guitars.htm Lots of mandolin links at dmoz open directory project and similar links at Google Links to bluegrass and old-time music Lots of free bluegrass MP3s by Minnesota band the Middle Spunk Creek Boys - excellent mandolin playing by Bruce Jaeger! More about the MSCBs at http://www.mscb.com/ Orchestra "Il Plettro" - big Italian site (in English) for mandolin orchestras, lots of MIDI files and links http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/6473/INDEXENG.HTM Jeditang's Online Barn Dance trades some interesting recordings in .SHN format http://geocities.com/jeditang/index.html American Music Archives "is dedicated to preserving the traditional musics of the United States through historical backdrops, biographies,discographies, information on recordings, photos, quick-time video, and sound samples" http://www.eyeneer.com/America/index.html Also check out their bluegrass artist's page Celtic Music.Com Irish and Celtic music on line http://www.celticmusic.com/home.shtml Ed and Carole's website - old-time music MIDI archive http://www.homestead.com/hetzler/music_2.html Recordings from A.S.I.A. 2001 Symposium Mandolin Panel http://www.brw-instruments.com/A.S.I.A..html The MiniDisc Community Portal http://www.minidisc.org/ Cajun and zydeco site http://users.erols.com/ghayman/ Lee's Pickin' Barn (Wes Lee's site) a lot of mando interest - he is the 2001 Merlefest Mandolin champion http://www.leespickinbarn.com/ Daniel Nestlerode's guitar & mandolin links - great page! http://home.mindspring.com/~dnestler/links.htm How to make MP3s and CDs from MIDI files The Banjo Hangout - worth a look, has some useful info, including a software page http://www.banjohangout.org/ How to transfer your old albums to your computer Mandolin music resources with a classical bias from Carlo Aonzo, an internationally recognized mandolin artist and virtuoso http://www.aonzo.com/ How to keep picks from flying out of your hand, courtesy Jim Coon http://liteways.tripod.com/Mandolin/Mandolin.html OTR: Old Time Music and Radio http://www.brandywinefriends.org/otr/ Soundclips of tunes played on a Phoenix Ultra mandolin http://www.phoenixmandolins.com/ultra.htm Tremolo, a Norwegian resource for musicians playing mandolin, mandola, balalaika, domra and guitar (new URL) http://tremolo.no/english/ Big country music site http://www.country.com Mandolin Magazine home page http://www.mandolinmagazine.com/ Savoy Music Centre - cajun music site http://www.savoymusiccenter.com/ Women and the mandolin - http://www.mandozine.com/special/women.html Captain Corelli's Mandolin (Universal Studios film site) http://www.captain-corellis-mandolin.com/ Brazilian Music Enterprises - Brazilian CDs and songbooks https://www.brazmus.com/ Brazilian choro site with lots of links (in Portuguese) http://samba-choro.com.br/ Lots of useful musical links, including software and jazz sites at http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/links.html  Home page at http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk Excellent introduction to Western Swing, and some good musical links http://www.geocities.com/~jimlowe/western/westdex.html Mandolin Melodies Museum including RealAudio files http://nagoya-jp.com/nanya/index_e.html The Secret Museum of the Air - lots of archived roots music of all sorts plus Andy Statman's home page http://www.megasaver.com/main.html Celtic music in New Zealand http://www.celticmusic.co.nz/ MP3 of music for Jack Tottle Bluegrass Mandolin manual http://www.designstein.com/tottle.htm Swing Cat - swing, old time and cajun instruction materials and recordings http://www.swingcatenterprises.com/catalog_oldtime.asp The Swedish Centre for Folk Song and Folk Music Research and Swedish Jazz History (in English!) http://www.visarkiv.se/svaengl/svaengl.htm Swedish traditional music links Dirty Linen magazine - folk and world music http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/ Mike Berro's Cittern and Mandolin site - lots of useful stuff, many links http://www.massmedia.com/~mikeb/mando/ Helpful info on how to convert your LPs to CD format http://homepages.jireh.co.uk/~abcomp/lp-cdr.htm Why girls should play the mandolin http://www.bestweb.net/~jgarber/music/19ctunes/sumgirl.gif Dik Thacker's Mandolin World http://homepages.enterprise.net/dthacker/ World Music Web - "the most comprehensive source for the music industry" http://www.worldmusicweb.com/index2.html Steve Starret's mandolin links http://www.eece.ksu.edu/~starret/mando.html Mandolin Heaven Bruce Graybill's website (1999 Winfield mandolin winner) http://members.aol.com/Mando1/MandolinHeaven/MHGate.html Page about "Man of Constant Sorrow", with some useful links to the Stanley Brothers, Mike Seeger and others http://members.nbci.com/elstongunn/sorrow.html Some nice articles about traditional music (and pics) as well as the Rounder Record catalog at http://www.rounder.com/ Charlie Ogunremi's bluegrass website - he is developing a mandolin page soon http://www.blueapples.freeserve.co.uk/index.html Buzz Feiten tuning system (claimed to improve intonation) http://www.buzzfeiten.com/ Pick'n'Glider - "the chair designed for musicians" http://www.pick-n-glider.com/ Martin Stillion has completed a major update to the Electric Mandolin site http://www.emando.com - new section of CD reviews, lots of new information on pickups, and tons of additional builders and players Muckler Design Studio now at http://www.mds.homestead.com/ Centerpitch and Intellitouch electronic tuners http://www.tuners.com/ Bluegrass mandolin club at Yahoo (including on-line chat!) http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/bluegrassmandolin Another Bluegrass Mandolin page! http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/Ranch/2201/bluegras.htm The Murphy Method home page http://www.murphymethod.com/ with links to teaching videos. Includes mandolin videos by David McLaughlin and Murphy Henry at http://www.murphymethod.com/mandolin.html ) and Red Henry's mandolin CD http://www.murphymethod.com/red.html Ridgerunner - lots of materials for learners http://www.ridgerunner.com/ Plucked String Foundation - info about this non-profit charitable organization http://www.mandolincafe.com/strings/psf.html Some live old time music on Testing, Testing http://www.electricedge.com/testingtesting/ Mando Linking - links and more at http://www.mandolinking.org.uk/ Mando Mafia site http://www.radix.net/~jmangin/mandomafia/ Links to Ken Burns' Jazz http://home.netscape.com/research/jazz/home.html The Gwensonic Home Page http://www.henrygwensonic.com/ Experience Music Project (EMP) is an interactive music museum located in Seattle, Washington - includes lots of jazz and blues sound files http://www.emplive.com/ Voyager Recordings & Publications Old Time Fiddle and Traditional Acoustic Music http://www.voyagerrecords.com/ CoMando Washington DC party http://albums.photopoint.com/j/AlbumIndex?u=949574&a=10779275 Ratliff mandolins plus links to Bluegrass Dreams Webring and Fiddle Webring among others http://www.ratliffmandolins.com/ MandoZine 2000 awards http://www.mandozine.com/special/mando2000.htm CoMando 2000 awards http://www.co-mando.com/comando2000.htm Intermountain Acoustic Music Association has literally hundreds of links to bluegrass, mandolin, oldtime, etc http://www.iamaweb.org/links.htm Or go to the IAMA home page http://www.iamaweb.org/ Dawgmando is not a David Grisman site, but has a wide range of material of general interest to mandolin players http://www.geocities.com/dawgmando/ O Brother Where Art Thou? official site http://www.obrothermusic.com/ Clips from O Brother (including concert music videos with Alison Krauss, Gillian Welch and others) at http://www.broadcast.com/o_brother/ Or go to http://studio.go.com/movies/obrother/ Wallhangings with mando interest! (Courtesy Charles Bond) http://members2.clubphoto.com/charles226218/Wallhanging/ Instant vintage for your new instrument! http://www.acousticguitar.com/gear/advice/vibration.shtml How to find MIDI files on the Net http://www.aitech.ac.jp/~ckelly/SMF.html About.com has great portal sites for: blues http://blues.about.com/musicperform/blues/ country music http://countrymusic.about.com/musicperform/countrymusic/ folk music http://folkmusic.about.com/musicperform/folkmusic/ guitar http://guitar.about.com/musicperform/guitar/ and lots of other musical material Pinecastle Records has some good bluegrass (and other) RealAudio files http://www.pinecastle.com/ Atlanta Mandolin Society http://bknysz.home.mindspring.com/ams/ Fusion violin MP3s at http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/84/fusiontunes.html This guy also plays some mandolin. His home page is at http://www.fusiontunes.net/ Highly rated guide to all music! http://allmusic.com/ Music Matters - good site for acoustic music http://mmreview.playhear.com/html/main.cgi?sub=168 RealAudio and MP3 from the first five tunes on The Swing Sessions by John Parrott and Don Stiernberg http://www.cronynrecords.com/ Very useful site for general info if you are new to the Internet http://www.netguide.com/internet Find music (of all sorts!) at http://www.getmusic.com/ Classical mandolin links - these sites are in German, but you can translate by going via http://babelfish.altavista.com/translate.dyn Universities where mandolin can be studied as a main instrument: list at the web page of the Bund Deutscher Zupfmusiker http://www.bdz-online.de/termine/studien.htm A list of links to web pages of mandolin orchestras can be found at http://www.bdz-online.de/webverz/zupforch.htm Another useful link to classical mandolin in Germany is http://www.mandoline.de/index.htm Symposium of World Musics http://webpages.acs.ttu.edu/shinds/ Bluegrass (and lots of other) MP3 files at http://www.efolkmusic.com/mp3_bluegrass.asp Becky Smith's mandolin pages Acoustic music e-mail list (including bluegrass) http://www.egroups.com/group/JamGrass  And more detail about the list at http://www.nashphil.com/jamgrass/ Read the CoMando archives at http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/comando.html Excellent organisation and classification of posts to the premier list for mandolin players! Here are some other archive links for occasional perusal - thanks to Niles Hokkanen for providing these: Irish trad http://listserv.heanet.ie/lists/irtrad-l.html Fingerstyle guitar http://www.egroups.com/group/fingerstyle-l Flatpick-L http://listserv.nodak.edu/archives/flatpick-l.html Bluegrass-L http://lsv.uky.edu/archives/bgrass-l.html Cittern-L (must sign up to access archives) http://www.egroups.com/group/cittern http://www.egroups.com/messages/cittern/ Irish tenor banjo http://209.157.67.53/pipermail/tenor_banjo/ 4-string banjo (jazz/dixieland) http://www.egroups.com/group/fourstringbanjo Tenor guitar club on Yahoo http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/tenorguitarregistry Review of Clarence White, 33 Guitar Instrumentals CD http://www.flatpick.com/Pages/News_And_Reviews/Reviews/Review.php?review=clarence Prairie Home Companion site, includes bluegrass awards and Garrison Keillor! http://www.prairiehome.org/ Sam Bush and the Del McCoury Band on Prairie Home Companion http://phc.mpr.org/performances/20001111/index.shtml The Mudcat Cafe - a magazine dedicated to blues and folk music http://www.mudcat.org/ Good links page for country music http://www.roughstock.com/cowpie/links.html Great site for researching artists and recordings http://allmusic.com/ Dan Freeman's MP3 files of his mandolin playing http://www.accs.net/users/dfreeman/dans.htm Excellent mandolin links page http://leche.weblogger.com/mando Major site for musicians' injuries, lots of links http://www.engr.unl.edu/ee/eeshop/music.html. And another one http://www.musicianshealth.com/. There are lots of pages on this subject! Do a search, e.g with WebFerret from http://www.ferretsoft.com/netferret/index.html and use a Boolean query such as "musician"AND"injury" Folk Music Index - an index to recorded resources by Jane Keefer. Brilliant listing of songs and tunes, including bluegrass sources http://www.ibiblio.org/folkindex Includes some listings for tab from Mandolin Magazine Netcast of country music http://www.twangcast.com/ The Hot Club of Atlanta has a mandolin player http://bknysz.home.mindspring.com/hotclub/page4.html (Django revival site) Down Yonder ~ The only bluegrass music show that is unique to KDHX, 88.1 FM, St. Louis community radio http://folksites.com/DownYonder/ Radio site including "The 100 most important American musical works of the 20th century", one of which is Bill Monroe's Blue Moon of Kentucky http://www.npr.org/programs/specials/vote/list100.html CoMando links page http://www.co-mando.com/links/index.cfm Mando tasting - John Reischman and Steve Kaufmann play a range of mandolins http://members.tripod.com/Liteways/index.html OpenHere has a good page of mandolin links http://www.openhere.com/music/instruments/stringed/mandolin/ Wide variety of musical links http://www.users.uswest.net/~scandrea/ Superscope varispeed CD player - useful for transcribing at reduced speed http://www.superscope-marantzpro.com/Superscope/PSD.htm A story of Old Joe Clark http://user.icx.net/~kwc/JoeClark.htm Old-Time Herald - articles on old time music http://www.mindspring.com/~oth/pages/info.htm Country music (and bluegrass) birthdays http://www.gentleman-jim.com/countrya.htm Dan Mozell's links http://userweb.nashville.com/~dan.mozell/mlinks.htm Everything you wanted to know about MP3 and WAV audio files http://music.zdnet.com/features/beginners/index.html Lots of links at Mando Mark's Mondo Mandolin Page http://www.geocities.com/BourbonStreet/3648/index.html Gemm Search for new and second-hand recordings (including LPs) - great resource! http://www2.gemm.com/ Second-hand records also at http://www.secondspin.com/index.cfm Mike Perry's http://www.aircraftbuyer.com/mando/ page has MP3 files of Jethro Burns playing Little Rock Getaway (in F) and Chris Thile doing two solos for Bill Monroe's Scotland from the True Life Blues CD. There are also tabs of the Scotland breaks. The story of Ashokan Farewell http://www.jayandmolly.com/ashokanfarewell.html Dave Berry's Traditional Tunes MP3 site has some good mandolin tracks for downloading http://www.traditionaltunes.com/tunes.html Clive Elliot's Mexborough Mandolins site is back at http://www.mandolin.fsnet.co.uk. Newspaper article with lots about mandolin player Earl Taylor, and other early bluegrass musicians From the Hills: How Mid-Century Migrants from the Mountains Brought Bluegrass--and More--to Baltimore http://www.citypaper.com/2000-01-12/feature.html The new CoMando site - wow! Go to http://www.co-mando.com. Particular thanks to John Baxter, Mike Stangeland and others who have got this one up and running. Loads of tablature, including a lot of great bluegrass breaks, in TablEdit format. (You can download a free TablEdit Viewer program direct from the site.) This site is going to constitute one of the Big Three, alongside Mandolin Cafe and Mandozine! Jim Coon's Liteways site, http://liteways.tripod.com/Mandolin/Mandolin.html tells you how to position your (movable) bridge. Jim also gives instructions how to create a neat stereo mike setup for recording on to minidisc at http://www.minidisc.org/jim_coon/. Great page of mandolin and related links http://www.radix.net/~jmangin/mandomafia/mlinks.html Train your (musical) ear at http://www.earpower.com/ Paul Slater's mandolin pages http://www.mandolin.u-net.com/index.htm

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