Mandos in Sydney Aus?

[Rondo]

Anyone with a suggestion on where to find mandos in Sydney Australia - I am there for the week

[John Flynn]

I have no local knowledge of Sydney, but when I am going to a strange town and want to find mando stuff, I try to get creative with web searches and email.

There are two mando-related groups I found in Sydney:

The Sydney Mandolin Orchestra:
http://home.vicnet.net.au/~fameweb/sydney/main.htm

The Sydney Mandolins:
http://members.optushome.com.au/sydneymandolins/Title.html

Also there is a Sydney site for the International Bluegrass Meetup Day:
Bluegrass Meetup Day (http://bluegrass.meetup.com/?country=1063&localeId=860&zip=&referrer=is1.websearch.com%2F_1_41iuos03694jp5__we bsrch.iepan.main%2Fdog%2Fresults%3Fotmpl%3Ddog&a=meetup&display=&setLocale=0)

If anyone is likely to have local mando info, people in those groups would. If you sent each of those groups an email asking for specific information, you might have some luck!

[SiFi]

Rondo,

You could try the Guitar Factory; their website claims to have Sydney's largest range of Mandolins. You could also try Venue Music and Allens, who are the "big" music stores in Sydney I believe. No idea what range they have in terms of Mandos though...

Sorry I can't help more!

Cheers,

Simon