Mandolin fun

 A little fun with 3 chords, G,C and D

Britches full of Stitches x2

 I dusted off the mandolin (literally) and had a go at this fiddle tune. Not easy, its cramped in there!

Then I tried it on guitar-my first attempt at flatpicking. I have to get used to using a pick and doing the upstroke on the 8th notes. Using a 1.2 mm generic pick. It's certainly louder than fingerstyle that's for sure! And flatpicking on guitar is a lot easier than on mandolin!

Got my mandolin set up

 Had some Christmas money so I decided to take my Deacon mandolin to Ron's Repairs for a set up.

As always Ron did a fantastic job and it now sounds great and is in tune!

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When I'm Dead and Gone

 A little bit of McGuinness Flint on the baritone uke currently tuned CGDA, with capo on the 7th so it sounds more like a mandolin, which is what it was originally played on.  

Mandola tuning on my baritone uke

 Following information provided by members of the mandolin cafe forum, I took the 5th 4th 2nd and 1st strings off my classical and strung up the baritone uke to CGDA-mandola tuning!

Ideally it wants new strings, they've been on the classical since 2015 but not played much. The 2nd string (D) sounds a bit dead. But its still very playable!

New Year, new instrument!

I had some birthday and Christmas money to spend in the town and my partner spotted this in the window of JG Windows, just shy of £60! Sounds lovely, just need some resources for it.