Joe K. Walsh Demonstrates Eight Mandolin Picks | Peghead Nation

When Peghead Nation instructor Joe K. Walsh was recently in our studio to shoot lessons for his courses, he suggested demoing eight different picks he had been experimenting with. Besides the Wegen TF (which is made from a white plastic with properties similar to tortoise shell) and vintage tortoiseshell pick he usually uses, he also brought along a Bluebird pick made from an antique galalith (also known as casein) material poker chip, an Apollo made from polyetherimide (PEI), a D’Andrea Pro Plec 346 (branded with a Music Emporium logo) made of thermoplastic, a custom casein pick that was hand-made by fellow Peghead Nation instructor Flynn Cohen, a BlueChip TAD-1R 40 (made from a proprietary composite material) , and a Peghead Nation–branded Delrin pick. All the picks have a large triangle shape, and while Joe isn’t sure about the exact thickness for most of them, except for the thinner Delrin pick, they are all similar to the 1mm. BlueChip pick. In this video, Joe talks about each pick, then demonstrates it by playing his Gilchrist F-5, using his Neumann KM-84 microphone to record the instrument.

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