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    Re: Winter NAMM 2013 Pictoral

    I was down there on Saturday afternoon and spent time in the Weber booth also. I was drawn immediately to the pumpkin top oval A w/the red sides so I pulled it down and spent a good 20 minutes with...
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    Re: "Shenandoah"- Smart 10 string mandola

    Wonderful instrument - and you make fascinatingly good use of it.
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    Re: Post a video of you playing your CBOM!

    Some of you may have seen these before but for those who have not - for your consideration....
    This an electric OM that Jon Mann built for me a couple years ago played thru a small Roland amp w/a...
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    Re: Looking for a good Jazz Mandola

    Yeah an arch top is exactly what I'm looking for. I already have a flat top.

    And yes I did take a listen to that thread but it was all just people whanging away on Celtic flat tops - not a m7b5 or...
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    Looking for a good Jazz Mandola

    I’ve been playing a lot of mandola of late (Dinnell 16.5” flat top oval A) and I find the CGDA mandola to be a perfect blend of scale, range and access to the higher positions. This particular...
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    Re: Mann 5 string electric

    Like I said in my previous post, I use an Alesis Nanoverb. They're dirt cheap, small footprint, quiet, sound amazingly rich and are easy to dial in.

    You're gonna love your Mann EM-8 I promise...
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    Re: Mann 5 string electric

    I have a Mann OM-8 full hollow with a peizo in the bridge and a DiMarzio near the neck and it's a wonderful instrument. It's got a mellow twang I don't hear in other electrics. I play it thru a...
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    Re: Baritone/octave owners

    About 50-50. Also the mag pickup is splittable with a push-pull switch on the tone pot and in these clips I'm using it on full humbucker. In single coil mode with little or no piezo thru a small tube...
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    Baritone/octave owners

    I've got a 19" scale Mann OM-8 electric and it's a fantastic instrument. I play jazz,blues,Celtic,American songbook and whatnot. I would recommend this instrument to any serious player. It has a...
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    Re: More Mann OM noodling

    Me and a couple other guys including Bill Bryson from the Desert Rose Band.
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    More Mann Electric OM noodling

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRyYI-0JGYY

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUfEXGe_N6o
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    More Mann OM noodling

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRyYI-0JGYY

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUfEXGe_N6o
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    Re: OM fingering

    Listen up you 3 finger players - If you study the structure of the human hand you'll find that the ring finger is the lamest finger on the hand - capable of the least control and dexterity because...
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    Re: My new Mann OM

    I just got it a couple days ago so I haven't worked it into my gigging scenes - yet. I play some mandolin with The Sacred Cowboys which is a kinda southern rock thing but I'm mainly the pedal steel...
  15. Thread: Mann Alive!

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    Mann Alive!

    Jon Mann bulit me the most exquisite Electric OM and it arrived just in time for Christmas. I can't say enough about this man and his handiwork.
    I also posted about this over on the CBOM forum...
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    My new Mann OM

    It's a very merry Christmas around here. It just arrived after being born thru the talented mind and hands of Jon Mann.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmpzDTREl2U
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    Re: Octave Mandolin Gigbag?

    Rockbag - that's what you want.
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    Re: Electric Mando to PA?

    You could go the PA/Pod route or.... get a Fender Deluxe Reverb or maybe a Peavey Classic 30 and just sing through the PA. Then you'd be on to something.
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    Re: Bogus truss rod in my Eastwood

    Mine has a trussrod. I was able with some nut/bridge tweaking,the right gauge strings(40-11)and some Lace Sensor pickups,to end up with a fine sounding,real easy playing instrument and way better...
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    Re: The Power of Not Caring

    I've been playing stringed instruments for a living for almost 50 years and I do care very much how well I play. But for me it boils down to this: Musical Headroom. By that I mean that if your chops...
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    Re: Bit by the emando bug

    Yep. I got one of Jon Mann's instruments coming in a few weeks also. It shall be a fully hollow electric 8-string OM.
    I'm jazzed to the maximum super double utmost.
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    Re: Guitar shaped like an F model mandolin?

    Yup that's it. When I played it it didn't have the hipshot gadget on there. It's not fully hollow - but is chambered with a neck-thru type construction like Jon Mann's current instruments. Did I...
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    Re: Guitar shaped like an F model mandolin?

    If that's the same Stuart Duncan who used to live in California, then I've played that guitar. It was built by his dad who was an excellent luthier. He used to bring his son who was rather young at...
  24. Re: How many people play professional with Pac-Rim Mandolins?

    Hey-
    I suppose I'm a pro.
    I've had a couple MKs and there's nothing wrong with them if they're set up well and upgraded in the usual ways. I have a tobaccoburst FSE and an amberburst F-4 which I...
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    Re: Distressing, what have we come to?

    I like shiny new instruments and like to try to keep them that way for as long as I can.When I started playing surf music in the early 60s I liked brand new Fender guitars and I still like brand new...
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