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Baron Collins-Hill
Dec-29-2004, 10:02pm
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws....71&rd=1 (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=10179&item=3772601271&rd=1)
they're speed holes. they make the mandolin go faster... i guess...
John Flynn
Dec-29-2004, 10:07pm
When you spill your beer in the soundhole, it drains right out!
jim simpson
Dec-30-2004, 5:44am
That seller is from West Virginia where I used to live. I've seen that sort of mandolin before. Those are grommets - you attach the bungee cords to it to keep it from bouncing around in the bed of the pickup. Don't you folks know nothing?!
mandroid
Dec-30-2004, 1:44pm
reminds me of the resonator one that was in the classified ,except for the lack of the resonator .. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
A rotary dial on a mandolin? 'Operator, Gimme MOnroe 2451'
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jasona
Dec-30-2004, 2:01pm
U. G. L. Y.
Santiago
Dec-30-2004, 7:07pm
A friend took me down into his basement to show me the two F-Style mandolins his father made and left to him. They were really beautiful, and I couldn't wait to play them. Then I turned one over and there was a round circle coming out of the back almost the entire size of the instrument. All had been carved away but the round circle so that the instrument's back was very thin and the circle was very thick. I asked him what this was for, but he had no answer -- being a guitar player. Is this also some design anomolie, or a speed bump?http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
Those gromets look like the rivets in a leather jacket or an old pair of blue jeans. Mebey this mando is a Transformer. Was meant to be played, then worn.