Suzuki MD-4 round-back mandola for sale

 Penn Boris, from Faribault, has a round-back mandola (and a few other instruments) for sale. He's asking $235. Details on facebook marketplace:

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/251063279885880/

Subgroup (BYNRIE?) to play at Greenhouse Village

At rehearsal last night, I mentioned an invitation to play at Greenhouse Village. I'm proposing that BYNRIE play either Thursdays October 14 or 21 at 4:00 or 6:30pm at the BYNRIE RSVP site.

Are you interested in playing during any of those slots, and more generally in an Irish or Celtic ensemble? As incentives, Sherry has offered to arrange (and compose?) new music for us; and since we've last performed together, I've found Evelyn Tiffany-Castiglioni's trios, about half of which are Irish-ish with a different sound than Sherry's works.

I'll let Allison describe Sherry's offer, but you can get free Winter's Tales Vol 1-3 by ETC from Mandolin Cafe. Winter's Tales, as far as I can tell, are drafts of ETC's Big Book of Mandolins series.

Slán,
Jonathan

Availability to Play the Landmark Center?

I'm looking ahead to schedule Fall and Spring performances for the orchestra. There seems to be some pent-up performance supply and slots at venues are filling fast.

We've been invited to play at the Landmark Center Sunday 1-3pm April 10, February 27, and January 23. The April schedule fits our normal performance schedule better than the rest, so I'm inclined to book the orchestra.

Would you either mark your availability at the RSVP site or email me with your thoughts on the date by July 5, please? I'm sorry that the date is so far in the future and I recognize there is uncertainty in planning that far ahead in the best of times.

We've played at the Landmark Center twice before. Sherry works upstairs and made appearances from the balcony. It's been good exposure for us in that we get a different audience from our usual setting and the Landmark Center Cortile Atrium is visually striking.

If you have other thoughts on holiday shows, venues, or the spring schedule, please let me know or continue the discussion here.

Enjoy the holiday weekend,
Jonathan

June 7 rehearsal will be indoors

Hi everyone - we can fit the whole orchestra in the living room of the building at Valentine by moving the furniture away to another room, so rather than suffer in the heat we can enjoy the AC indoors.

Please still plan to bring your own stool or chair, remove your shoes at the door, and please wear a mask as a courtesy in case of ongoing pandemic concerns or vulnerabilities.

The entrance is up the stairs on the left side of the building.

See you soon!

Mandolin orchestra rehearsal June 7

 The MMO board and I have scheduled the first full mandolin orchestra rehearsal of 2021. It's Monday, June 7, 7:00 p.m., outdoors at 2412 West Valentine Avenue in St. Paul. Take your own chair. If it's raining on June 7, the rehearsal will be on June 8 instead. We'll play music from the summer concert set lists.

Gloria Reverie: new parts for flute, m1, m2, mc, g

 I made new parts for the Gloria Suite Reverie for flute, mandolin 1, mandolin 2, mandocello, and guitar and put them in the dropbox. The new parts have file names that include "gloria-8." The parts have a few changed notes, so please update your notebooks with the new parts if you play one of those instruments.

Summer concert repertoire practice files

During April, I've been populating the dropbox 2021 season "videos" folder with play-along files for people to use when practicing at home. The folder has 14 ".web" files, mostly links to youtube videos. For the other pieces in the summer repertoire, the guide tracks we used in making videos are good for play-along practice.

Since we're not all able to meet in person yet, those practice files, along with small regional rehearsals, will help us get ready for the August concerts.

If you have any questions about the music, send them to me.

Breakfast with Tiffany

 Hi everyone, I just sent an email newsletter with Zoom link for us to chat with Tiffany (mandolin, mandola) who relocated to Zurich, Switzerland. She's seven hours ahead of us, so breakfast for us is happy hour in Zurich. Tune in on Sunday morning, April 25 at 10am CDT for an international edition of our Zoom Social Hour!

     For those of you using the larger mandolin family instruments, I was looking at some guitar rests, hoping to possibly get a better position for my Weber F-Style Mandocello when playing in a seated position and came across some videos analyzing different guitar rest products.

 I was so impressed with the Gitano Guitar Rest:  https://www.stringsbymail.com/gitano-guitar-support-1170.html

That I ordered one from Strings By Mail and have started playing with it; seems to be a good fit and I seem to  really get the Mandocello in a much better playing position, while at the same time taking quite a bit of strain off my neck and shoulders!  It folds into a very small foot print for travel and attaches easily to my Mandocello!

And of course the good news, I can also use on my classical guitar!

Daryl Clark (MMO - Mandocello)

The Loar Honey Creek LM-310F F-Style Mandolin $325

For Sale: 

The Loar Honey Creek LM-310F F-Style Mandolin $325

This is an excellent beginner mandolin or for those times when you don't want to risk your more expensive instrument. I bought it less than 2 years ago and it's in 'like-new' condition - has had only very light use, not a mark or a scratch on it. I also had new strings put on it and a setup done last year. Included in the deal is an Alpine Boulder gig bag (retail $70)

Here's the full description: https://www.theloar.com/p/lm-310f

If you are interested, want to see more pictures, or take it home for a spin please send an email to: joybous@gmail.com

Thanks, Joy