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Ceolas is "the home of Celtic music on the internet since 1994" http://www.ceolas.org/ceolas.html
Good links page for British skiffle at the Ugly Dog Skiffle Combo site http://www.uglydog.co.uk/links.htm Ugly Dog home page at http://www.uglydog.co.uk/
The Folk Music Home Page with Web Ring links http://www.jg.org/folk/folkhome.html
MandoZineand CoMando sites now combined - what a wonderful mando resource! http://www.mandozine.com
Helpful page on musicians' injuries, with lots of links http://eeshop.unl.edu/music.html
Aardvark's Archive of General Musical Interest - just what it says, for example http://www.greenspun.com/boohoo/related.tcl?page_id=aardbox Home page http://www.stl-music.com/gen.html
Updated mando links page (including some useful UK links) at Terry Holland's banjo site http://www.ukbanjo.com/mdln.htm Note new URL for this site - home page now at http://www.ukbanjo.com/
TaperFriendly has links to some really useful looking downloads (you would need broadband however - enormous file sizes!) http://www.taperfriendly.com/
A bluegrass mandolin blogspot about learning to play, 7th July to 24th August 2002
Introduction to transcribing music from recordings courtesy Andy Robinson http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/xscribe/introxsc.html
Jack's MIDI Music for useful MIDI files (some bluegrass) http://www.discoverynet.com/~ajsnead/allsongs_1/allsongs.html
CoMando shirts at http://www.bullshirts.com/comando/comain.html
Another CoMando logo at http://www.georgiaitp.org/comando/
Bluegrass Mandolin Group at Yahoo http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/bluegrassmandolin/
The Mandolin Web Ring - list of sites at http://k.webring.com/hub?ring=mandolin Bluegrass Music Web Ring at http://i.webring.com/hub?ring=bluegrass Traditional Country Music Web Ring http://n.webring.com/hub?ring=tradco
MusicShed sell bluegrass and other acoustic music recordings http://www.musicshed.com/
All sorts of useful mando links at the Electric Blues Club http://www.electricbluesclub.co.uk/mandolin.html
Free MP3s of fiddle tunes etc at http://www.massmedia.com/~mikeb/mando/coi2/TheTunes.htm
Free fiddle MP3s courtesy Grassapelli http://grassapelli.com/free_tunes.html
Music downloads (including lots of klezmer) courtesy Shawn Weaver at http://members.aol.com/shawnkugel/kugelsheet.html Shawn's instrument page (including mandolin) http://members.aol.com/shawnkugel/instruments.html and home page http://members.aol.com/shawnkugel/kugel.html
Fiddlin' Around "brings together all the resources you need to turn your computer into the ultimate roots music jukebox" http://www.starchart.com/FidA/fida.html
Mandolin card game - "a learning tool" (though no free sample material) http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~mandolin/goods/karuta_e.htm This site also offers the Mandolin Melodies Museum, nearly all in Japanese, but follow through some of the links and see what you get http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~mandolin/ eg All Japan Mando Link (also in Japanese) http://www.musefan.net/ajml/
Pics of pickin' in San Diego, courtesy Becky Smith http://www.smithfowler.org/music/SanDiego.htm And Becky's home page at http://www.smithfowler.org/music/index.htm
Lots of mando links And home page of this big directory for musical instruments http://www.music-instruments-list.com/index.html
LP to CD page at http://www.cybergrass.com/Articles/CD-Vinyl.html
Drew's "Easy LP to CD & LP To CDR Computer Recording Tutorial (Plus It's Perfect For Copying Reel To Reel Tapes & Cassettes To CD Too.)" http://www.dak.com/reviews/Tutorial_LP.cfm
Cybergrass now at http://www.cybergrass.com/ Includes a Mandolin forum
Full interview with Stan Werbin of Elderly Instruments http://www.elderly.com/articles/fullfilling.html
Music transcribing tools listed and discussed at http://www.alisdair.com/educator/transcribingtools.html And another useful listing at http://www.seventhstring.demon.co.uk/links.html
More help/discussion on converting LPs etc to CD format at HitSquad http://www.hitsquad.com/smm/news/1316/
Pics of Comando gathering, 28th Sept 2003, courtesy Andy Shaw http://homepage.mac.com/andy.shaw/PhotoAlbum2.html
MP3s of traditional dance tunes (with mandolin) included on this very informative page about contradance, square dance, etc http://mckenziemusic.com/Dance.htm
Roots & Rhythm sell rare and popular roots music on line http://www.rootsandrhythm.com/ Bluegrass and country catalog at http://www.rootsandrhythm.com/roots/rr_country.htm
A great site for jazz mandolin players - lots of learning materials, recommended listening and other goodies courtesy Ted Eschliman http://www.jazzmando.com/
Neumann microphones - information about current and past products at https://www.neumann.com/infopool/history/
Some informative articles by Marilynn Mair on classical mandolin matters http://www.marilynnmair.com/articles.shtml
CMT's 100 Greatest Songs of Country Music
CD Baby helps you sell your band's CDs http://cdbaby.net/about/index.htm
A miscellany of links - old time, fiddle, folk music etc - courtesy Sadie Compton http://www.fiddola.com/links.htm
American Music - great variety of links and sound files http://www.wirz.de/music/american.htm
Discussion list of how to mount a house concert http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HouseConcert/
fRoots (UK folk music magazine) home page http://www.frootsmag.com/
Mandolin links at MusicMoz open music project
Info about roundback mandolins http://www.mandolincafe.com/cmsa/archives/0198.html This is courtesy the Classical Mandolin Society of America - other archive links at http://www.mandolincafe.com/cmsa/editorial.html and home page at http://www.mandolincafe.com/cmsa/
Some useful links for musicians (not just dulcimer players) at http://www.gilamountaindulcimers.com/links.htm
Another way to break in your new instrument? http://www.ukuleles.com/Technology/HulaGirlShaker.html
Huge links listing of "international resources for fiddlers and all acoustic musicians" http://www.fiddlers.org/links.html
So you thought you made mistakes? Check out the Beatles' errors in their recordings! http://www.stevesbeatles.com/wgo/list.asp
Jorg Strutwolf's music pages include some mando pics and MP3s http://people.freenet.de/j.strutwolf/music.html Also a mando oil painting at http://people.freenet.de/j.strutwolf/hobbies.html
Belmando is a new UK-based record label, "enthusiastic about acoustic music with a strong mandolin focus" Look out for Marc Woodward's forthcoming CD! Site also includes an interesting mandotrivia page. http://www.belmando.com/
Masses of music materials in digital form in the American Memory collections; for example Fiddle Tunes of the Old Frontier: The Henry Reed Collection, including musical transcriptions and sound recordings, at http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/hrhtml/hrhome.html
Mandolin Cafe message board
Lots of bluegrass lyrics and some other useful stuff at 16 Tracks Digital Music Store http://www.16tracks.com/FreeTablature/ Store home page http://www.16tracks.com/
Internet Fiddle Forum and Message Board http://www.fiddleforum.com/fiddleforum/
Maestronet forums for players of stringed instruments http://forums.maestronet.com/forums/ubbthreads.php
MIDI files of English country dance tunes, courtesy Peter Barnes http://home.comcast.net/~peterbarnes/midi.htm
Introduction to using your computer for making recordings http://blues.about.com/library/weekly/aa092901a.htm
Toronto Celtic Music Resource Page has a variety of useful material http://www.geocities.com/Nashville/7088/index.html
Some great photos of musicians, including Bill Monroe http://members.cox.net/billandleann/jbrian/
Groove Camp 3rd-10th July 2003 includes mandolin classes with John McGann http://www.dhebert.com/groovecamp/
A lot of useful mandolin links courtesy Wayne Cripps http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/bookmark/bk_mando.html
CoMando Gathering at Inverness, CA, 2003 - another fine gathering with many great pickers and instruments to pick http://homepage.mac.com/c_dog/PhotoAlbum6.html
More Inverness pics http://www.tcoek12.org/~jimf/inverness2003.html
Archiving and restoring LPs and analog tapes - this feature deals with getting "old school" audio into more useable formats
Little Mountain Music store - "serving the acoustic musician since 1996" http://www.littlemountainmusic.com/
Michael Falk plays traditional music on the mandolin - his page includes ABC transcriptions and sound files (Mac only) http://odin.math.nau.edu/~mjf/musical/indexmusical.html
Donna Hébert has a large website with pages about fiddling, fiddling workshops and music camps http://www.dhebert.com/publications/oldtimeherald.html
Musix Newsletter #2 Winter/Spring 2003 -
"news, music, tablature, MP3s to download & learn" http://www.musixnow.com/newsletter2.html
Bluegrass mandolin blogspot http://www.bluegrassmando.blogspot.com/
Mandolin MIDI files (mostly classical)
http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/Strasse/6473/mma/mma.html
"Mandolin Players Behind the Wheel: Harmless Hedonists or Highway Hazard?" http://aatonline.com/searchfinal.asp?ID=260
A brief history of the mandolin http://www.document-records.co.uk/mandolin/index.html
It's official - 2003 was the Year of the Blues http://www.yearoftheblues.org/officialproclamation.asp
Folk and Roots - a guide to folk and acoustic artists, venues, folk gigs, concerts and events across the UK http://www.members.aol.com/folkandroots/index.html
Mandolin events for 2003 including boot camps with Niles Hokkanen http://www.ext.vt.edu/resources/4h/northern/adult.html
Camp Bluegrass 20-25 July 2003 has mandolin instructors Roland White and Steve Smith http://www.campbluegrass.com/home.html
Wintergrass instrumental workshops (also fascinating graphic on this page) http://www.wintergrass.com/workshops.htm
Mandolin buyer's guide by Dix Bruce at Mandozine
http://www.mandozine.com/resources/buyers/guide.html
Mandolin pictures from days gone by, courtesy Jim Garber
Hungry For Music charity provides musical instruments for disadvantaged children in USA http://hungryformusic.com/
Would you like a digital Les Paul, or even a Loar? http://www.eetimes.com/sys/news/OEG20030124S0035
The Pythagorean Comma - the relationship between the chromatic and diatonic semitones http://www.staff.uiuc.edu/~sewyatt/pc.html
Introduction to systems of tuning at http://www.microtonal.co.uk/start.htm And lots of links to other useful sites http://www.microtonal.co.uk/
Frequencies for 12 tone equal tempered scale http://www.cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall02/V22.0201-002/notes.htm
Lots of country music interest at CMT http://www.cmt.com/
Thoughts on playing together, staying together
Blue Ridge Heritage archives - "a permanent repository for materials related to the folklife of Virginia's western Blue Ridge and the state as a whole" http://www.blueridgeinstitute.org/archives/bridb.htm
The Traditional Music MP3 Tunes site now at http://traditionaltunes.tripod.com/
The Denver Mandolin Orchestra's 8-String Harvest offers weekly MP3s of the orchestra's playing http://www.denvermandolin.com/
If you are concerned that the new licensing proposals are a threat to live music in England and Wales then please read the statement and sign the petition at http://www.musiclovers.ukart.com/
Responses from CoMando Guests Of the Week (CGOWs) - this is wonderful stuff! Particular thanks to Glenn Bradford as well as to CGOWs http://www.co-mando.com/resources/CGOW/index.htm See for example Mike Compton's response.
Bob Alessio runs up Jerusalem Ridge http://www.kentucky.com/mld/heraldleader/4882672.htm
Lots of very useful links including mando, bluegrass and old time music at Folk of the Wood http://www.folkofthewood.com/page14.htm
The meaning of a capella at http://www.singers.com/a-cappella.html
Lots of useful links on Barb Diederich's bluegrass site http://mywebpages.comcast.net/barb923/
Music Kidsonline "all about music and children" http://www.musickidsonline.com/
A Prairie Home Companion archived show in RealAudio including Sam Bush and Del McCoury Band http://phc.mpr.org/performances/20001111/index.shtml
The Jam-In site has lots of useful contacts for musicians http://www.jam-inn.org/forum/index.php
Dirty Linen, the folk and world music magazine, on line at http://www.dirtynelson.com/linen/103/toc.html
MiniDisc Hacking - extra uses for your minidisc player! http://minidisc.org/part_hacking.html
Daniel's Mandola Resource Links http://home.mindspring.com/~dnestler/mandolastuff.htm
MP3s by Mark Kreitzer (of the Middle Spunk Creek Boys) at http://www.markkreitzer.com/MP3.htm and http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/452/mark_kreitzer.html Mark's home page http://www.markkreitzer.com/
Audio Winfield - take an audio tour of the campground here! http://shorock.com/folk/wv/audio/ And Don Shorock's unofficial Walnut Valley Festival Home Page http://shorock.com/wv/
Audio clips of Brazilian music (Windows Media Player required) at http://www.allbrazilianmusic.com/en/home/home.asp
Links to all sorts of music freebies at http://runelli.virtualave.net/sheetmusic.html
Nigel Gatherer's CoMando Pages - "a supplement to the Comando list, where I'll post useful information, tablature, whatever" http://users.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/mando/coma.html
Mandolin Magazine have some useful material on line, eg article on stage fright by Donn Marshall at http://www.mandolinmagazine.com/articles/stagefright.html
Classical Mandolin Society of America - full convention report with pics http://www.geocities.com/shevchenko1951/Convention
Old Time Music and Dance site at http://oldtimemusicanddance.homestead.com/index.html Includes useful links page at http://oldtimemusicanddance.homestead.com/LINKS.html and links to old time music on line http://oldtimemusicanddance.homestead.com/OTonline.html
MP3 archive at Mandolin Cafe - all sorts of goodies! http://www.mandolincafe.com/mp3/
How to transcribe - OK, it's about jazz solos but lots of helpful ideas! http://faculty.adams.edu/~dmwilken/transcribe.html And see Dr Wilkens' Jazz Resources home page for a ton of other useful stuff http://faculty.adams.edu/~dmwilken/jazzresources.html
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