I bought the Bickford book in digital form from Djangobooks.com

On Nov 11, 2009, at 5:20 PM, Alexander, Jeffrey wrote:

>
> How did you find the Bickford book? I would love to see that.
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected]
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Hoffmann
> Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 3:44 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: William Place Jr. Methods Books 1 - 3
>
>
> Linda, I have another book on duo and trio style playing which I feel,
> more so than the simply double stops, emphasizes the picking patterns
> used to make one mandolin sound like two (duo) or three (trio) using
> double and triple stops.  Frank Wakefield is a big proponent of this
> style.  Dang, I gotta work on that book more.
> It is available on Djangobooks.com
>
> good luck!
> Mike
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2009, at 3:24 PM, Linda wrote:
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>>
>> The rest of the story is I find the Bickford book 1 (found on line  
>> for
>> free) is better than the Place book.
>> Also found out, the technique most interested in here, is called  
>> duo..
>> meaning playing melody on more than one string, (double stops).
>> Thank you Mike.
>> Seems books 2 onward have more on duo than book 1.
>> All smiles here about this.
>> ljt
>>
>> On Nov 9, 2:39 pm, Linda <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Mike, I sent away to some place in NYC or even maybe telephoned to
>>> order, they only had Book 1 and 2.  I wonder if he even made book 3.
>>> If you can stand to go to the trouble there are likely some copies
>>> about somewhere in your area.
>>> I got mine in the early 90's.
>>>
>>> Never heard of Bickfords.  Interested...too.
>>>
>>> I think William Place was playing mandolin in the 30's.  The books
>>> have been reprinted several times.  Every now and again I do a big
>>> computer search...no luck ever.  Have seen book 1 and 2 for sale  
>>> once
>>> in a blue moon.
>>> I would love to put my eyes on Book 3!
>>> cheers
>>> linda
>>>
>>> On Nov 9, 12:56 pm, Mike Hoffmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Linda - very interested.  Once I can acquire some more time I want
>>>> to
>>>> have another go at Bickford's method.  I am historically very
>>>> interested in, but bad at following up on, learning from these old
>>>> method books.  Did you buy digital copies or paper copies of 1 and
>>>> 2?
>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>
>>>> On Nov 8, 2009, at 8:45 PM, Linda wrote:
>>>
>>>>> The previous thread, brings up ..my quest for book three in this
>>>>> series.
>>>
>>>>> They are all out of print me thinks.  Has anyone ever used his
>>>>> books..besides me?
>>>
>>>>> Has anyone ever seen book 3.
>>>
>>>>> Curious for two decades about book 3, never seen it anywhere, not
>>>>> even
>>>>> a mention of it.
>>>
>>>>> linda
>>>
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