What is the loudest mandolin you've ever heard?
What is the loudest mandolin you've ever heard?
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln
My Michael Kelly pluged into 50,000 watts at the NJ State Fair.
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I didn't realize that you can power a light bulb with a mandolin
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln
Yikes! I wonder what that thing does?
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Math!Originally Posted by (Tim2723 @ Sep. 06 2007, 11:21)
Garnet Bruell
Wow, that thing must be great at breaking in a new instrument. Put your mandolin inside and expose it to Monroe at 1000 decibals.
nice try on this thread, captain:D
my daley is pretty loud i'd say.
A friend's Daley. A banjo killer if there ever was one.
My Flatiron.
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'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
Somebody once said he thought I had an amplifier inside my BRW. More than once people at very loud bluegrass jams have said my BRW is the loudest instrument in the room. I guess it helps to use a Tone-Gard, J75 strings and a 2.5mm Wegen pick.
Kicking Mule mandolin made in Oklahoma...LOUUUUUUUUUD!
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Three Daley's in my neck of the woods (including mine) and all three honk pretty good.
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Fatt-dad's Flatiron has all the volume you'd ever need in a mandolin. And great tone too. Another extremely loud mando is Billy Bright's Gilchrist. An amazing instrument...
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Brad, I thought your Kelley was louder than the Daley. Either way, they both are loud and cut nicely in a jam.Originally Posted by (bradeinhorn @ Sep. 06 2007, 11:31)
I also think the the 'x' braced Flatirons cuts very well.
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln
My Gibson F5G with J-75's on it. The second loudest is my Gibson F5G with J-74's on it.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
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WHAT THE??
Is that guy trying to send a message to Jupiter?
In space, nobody can hear you chop.Originally Posted by (Zman @ Sep. 06 2007, 10:38)
Oh darn!Originally Posted by (jefflester @ Sep. 06 2007, 13:46)
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"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln
Well, my Old Wave oval is not the loudest mandolin I have heard, but it is the loudest oval I have heard. The loudest unamplified mandolin I have heard, by far is a National Resonator. You can talk about your Daleys and Gils all you want, but a National will smoke 'em all for volume. The tone is not traditional, but it's not bad either. There is one in my future! If you narrow it to traditional, wooden construction with F-holes, I am not an expert, but I remember a thread on this years ago where there was a consensus that at least for for pure volume, Stiver mandolins were a serious contender.
This one when your fingers go through it...
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My Stiver was loud (should have kept that one, sigh. . .). I kept the Flatiron 'cause it was X-braced and for some reason, I figured it was unique that way.
Just how loud are those early mandobanjos?
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ˇpapá gordo ain’t no madre flaca!
'20 A3, '30 L-1, '97 914, 2012 Cohen A5, 2012 Muth A5, '14 OM28A
See New National Resonator Mandolin thread...
My Vega mando-banjo is requested to be pointed away from others in the jam circle,
but still loses out to the piano player, so I bring the electric and wee amp.
anyone want to give standard Decibel numbers? , its less subjective..
gentlemen start your DB meters..
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My Kalamazoo is pritty loud!It's bark is worser than it's bite!
I played my Mid Missouri M-4 in a church worship band beside an electric guitar and had no trouble being heard.
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