View Full Version : Chicks dig mandos...
Phantoj
Sep-30-2004, 11:29am
I've been taking my new (1 week old) mandolin to work with me and practicing at the park during my lunch break. Today was my third day of doing this... Generally, it seems that I am studiously ignored by other park-goers; I think I noticed an older couple cutting across a grassy area in order to avoid coming to close.
Today, though, a young woman on an nearby bench dropped by and peppered me with questions after I had run through my repetoire of tabs. "What is that that you're playing?" "What made you want to get a mandolin?" etc...
I'm thinking she would NOT have shown such interest if I had been playing a common instrument like a guitar. Or a banjo... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Anywho, we conversed for a bit about mandolins and their role in music before the topic drifted a bit. I wondered if I was being hit upon - and if she had picked up on the large WEDDING RING on my fretting hand...
So is the mandolin a quirky, cool instrument...
...or am I just really hot!?!
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JiminRussia
Sep-30-2004, 11:50am
If you are really curious as whether it's you or the mandolin, try sitting in the park WITHOUT the mandolin and see how much notice you get from women that aren't wearing a gun and a badge. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
Moose
Sep-30-2004, 11:50am
I'm SURE she was just wanting information concerning mandolins - and the art of playing them. Probably just innocent 'curiosity on her part...- I've had experiences like that MANY times - 'specially when I used to play the joints(ohh.., I meant "coffee houses") in Baltimore. Think nothing of it... she was probably married too.. - Regards, EL MOOSO. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Phantoj
Sep-30-2004, 11:55am
At least she didn't ask if it was a "little guitar"... I hear that's the common question.
mad dawg
Sep-30-2004, 12:06pm
On the contrary, when I play in public I've found my mandolin to be the perfect babe-repellant. (Or at least I hope it's the mandolin...)
Michael H Geimer
Sep-30-2004, 12:20pm
I gotten dates from sitting in the park at lunch. (that's certainly not *why* I do it, but I'm no fool either) I've also had many innocent, curious conversations with all sorts of people.
I find the mandolin is actually more of a kid-magnet than any other sort ... something about the bouncy playfull tone of fiddle tunes, I think. (It's rather difficult to get dates with their Moms though)
Hey ... It's luchhtime!
steve in tampa
Sep-30-2004, 12:56pm
Its always the drummer that get the chicks.........
...but the mandolin player has his pick... - or is it "..the guitar player" - anybody got any good "chicks"/picks stories!? (OPS!.. off topic!##). http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Jasper
Sep-30-2004, 1:09pm
Well Phanto, I won't delve into your original question, but, yes, I think there is animal magnetism in that little 8-stringed wonder. I met my wife in September, started dating in October, married her in February. It was certainly me she married, but she found the mandolin intriguing and ended up playing acoustic bass guitar in our church group. Funny thing...I, the man, play the little instrument, and she, the little woman, plays the big instrument (no pun intended). Her guitar is almost as big as she is!
J. Mark Lane
Sep-30-2004, 1:22pm
You guys are nuts. Chicks regard the mandolin as a "funny little instrument." Men with funny little instruments are categorically *not* attractive to chicks. Now, if you are otherwise sufficiently attractive to chicks, the mandolin *might* not prove to be sufficiently distracting to undermine your luck....
Mark (who also plays a big, booming dreadnaught guitar <g>)
mandopete
Sep-30-2004, 1:28pm
I play Double-Bass - top that!!
Michael H Geimer
Sep-30-2004, 1:31pm
"Benignus, you know how guys get dates? They ask."
That's the best advice I ever got on the subject of women. 'Funny little instrument' or not, it can open up a conversation much better than say ... a newspaper, or a crossword puzzle, or a Blackberry.
Hey, whaddya call a drummer without a girlfriend ... homeless!
- Benig ... who plays a *really big* dreadnaught, *and* sings lead. Pbbbbt! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
J. Mark Lane
Sep-30-2004, 1:45pm
'Funny little instrument' or not, it can open up a conversation much better than say ... a newspaper, or a crossword puzzle, or a Blackberry.
Um, yeah. It's probably also better than not taking a bath for a month....
Mark
P.S. Where's the best place to hide money from a bass player? .... Under the soap.
John Bertotti
Sep-30-2004, 2:07pm
Mando can seem a bit romantic and/or funny to a woman. At least the ones I know. I travel a lot and behave but to keep the temptation down I actually stopped wearing my weeding ring. Not for this purpose it just got to small but once I traveled without it I wasn't hit on anymore. I put it back on and I'm hit on. Usually by a female buisness person who is married. Odd huh. As we will never understand the mando reactions we get we will also never figure out the women. Interesting isn't it? John
ShaneJ
Sep-30-2004, 2:29pm
Any attraction some chicks might have to the mandolin seems to wear off after they're married! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Mandodoc
Sep-30-2004, 3:15pm
Phantoj:
Don't let all these nay sayers get to you, it must be because you're totally hot.
John Rosett
Sep-30-2004, 5:08pm
"what did the mandolin player use for birth control?"
"his personality."
babymedic
Sep-30-2004, 7:18pm
I would be likely to walk up to anyone I found playing a mando, and strike up a conversation. But maybe that's because I play one . . .
I've mainly found them a kid magnet--I ended up playing my stunning renditions of Red Haired Boy and Congress Reel to wide-eyed two-year-olds in 4 airports on a trip this summer. They all found my guitar/travel guitar/little guitar/violin/fiddle/banjo quite interesting.
fatt-dad
Sep-30-2004, 9:30pm
Any attraction some chicks might have to the mandolin seems to wear off after they're married! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Truer words have not been spoken (or posted)
f-d
I think a lot of times it is just people being curious. When I sit on my front porch playing one of my 8-stringers (mandola, OM or mando), I get an assortment of folks approaching me. They generally ask "what is that?"
Most of the time, it's a nice exchange...But I have to admit that when I am playing one of the 8-string beauties (rather than my Dobro or Guitar) the people approaching do tend to be more of the female-type...but I'll have to do the research. Perhaps I can get a Federal Grant?
Mastersound
Oct-01-2004, 7:24am
Like it says in Jackson Browne's song "Rosie": "When they walked off stage the drummer swept that girl away".
But there's always Rosie.... sigh...
bjc : Federal Grants have been found for MANY less important "projects"... - go for it!! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
joshro78
Oct-01-2004, 8:10am
I was searching through my library's music section and found a book called, "Animal Magnetism for Musicians".
and it wasn't a joke
grandmainger
Oct-01-2004, 8:31am
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif I typed 'mandolin girl' in google, just to see what it would return... Here's one of the links:
http://www.showcase.realpages.com/plus....e4.html (http://www.showcase.realpages.com/plus/categories/sites/hearingaidtoday/page4.html)
Utterly bizarre! Free Hearing Test http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif !
Plectrum
Oct-01-2004, 8:36am
I don't know, but my wife is supportive of my mandolin quest, but would not be if it was another guitar I wanted to buy.
Q: What does it mean when a guitar player is drooling out of both sides of his mouth?
A: The stage is level.
Q: What's the first thing a guitar player asks when he comes to your door?
A: You order a pizza?
MANDOLINMYSTER
Oct-01-2004, 8:57am
I think many people are curious about the mandolin. It's not your mainstream instrument. Sometimes you might get a little old lady asking you #questions, or a fat hairy dude, and then theres the day when the "hottie" comes along. #Mandolins , puppies and babies all seem to be "chick magnets" in my opinion . So if you really want to pick up a chick at the park bring your mando, a puppy and a little baby http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
All this "chick" talk!! - You guys are askin' for trouble. There be several "liberated" women-"chicks"(!??) who lurk herein.., an' I can see the storm clouds a-gatherin' - 'course I don't mean to stir nothin' up now.., mind ya'- I LIKE women - ... tee.. hee..(UPS!!) http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/laugh.gif
OdnamNool
Oct-11-2004, 4:27am
Yer darn tootin, Moose! Those ain't no storm clouds a brewin'... darlin'...they're more like hurricane gales...
This is the 21st century!!!
Hotties, if you please...
Nyuck, Nyuck... http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif