The Player
The Player
The cup holder!
Doug Hoople
Adult-onset Instrumentalist (or was that addled-onset?)
Rick, You completed your own thread with the ONLY correct answer. Game over.
Seriously, can your own answer be argued against very succesfully? A Loar sitting in a closet makes no sound... or does it?
Now that I know the player is the most important part of the Mandolin, my Mandolins' values have just gone into the red!!
No, I take it back... the ashtray!
Doug Hoople
Adult-onset Instrumentalist (or was that addled-onset?)
That's a silly question. Of course it's the hole(s). The tone faeries would be locked out without at least a tiny one. Glad I could help clear that up. You're welcome.
The price tag.
Why...the name of course! Duh!
The scroll.
The strings. Even the best players couldn't get much of a sound without them.
Obviously you're not a golfer.
I agree with the strings...hard to get any sound from the mandolin without them. When Yogi Berra was managing the Yankees, his first pick in the draft was a catcher that had a batting average around 200. When asked why his first pick was a catcher batting around 200, Yogi said that it wes a simple choice: If you don't have a catcher, everytime the pitcher throws the ball it will go to the backstop.
Seriously, I believe it's all about the sound, and there are many factors that go into that.
That's not a real ashtray, it's a tray for your toll road money.Originally Posted by (doughoople @ Aug. 16 2008, 02:40)
Mikey, that was Casey Stengel, drafting for the expansion NY Mets in 1961, and he he said, "You have to have a catcher because if you don't you're likely to have a lot of passed balls."
"I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is."~John Mellencamp
"Theory only seems like rocket science when you don't know it. Once you understand it, it's more like plumbing!"~John McGann
"IT'S T-R-E-M-O-L-O, dangit!!"~Me
We have a winner!The scroll.
This is an unanswerable question, unless you are asking "which part has to be the best quality in order to get the best sound?" Obviously a mandolin wouldn't work without strings, but you couldn't tune them to pitch without tuners, and you couldn't even attach them without a tailpiece, and you couldn't attach the tailpiece without the top, and you couldn't attach the top without a rim, and you couldn't attach the rim without a back, and you'd have no place for the tuners without a headstock, and you couldn't place the headstock where it belongs without a neck - see where this can end up if taken to its logical conclusion?
"I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is."~John Mellencamp
"Theory only seems like rocket science when you don't know it. Once you understand it, it's more like plumbing!"~John McGann
"IT'S T-R-E-M-O-L-O, dangit!!"~Me
Heiden F-5 #110
GMC Terrain VIN 2GTEC13Z871107423
2007 Tempurpedic mattress
$1.35 in assorted change
biorkman, you can say that about a lot of these "Start-a-thread-about-every-random-thought-that enters-my-mind" posts.
"I thought I knew a lot about music. Then you start digging and the deeper you go, the more there is."~John Mellencamp
"Theory only seems like rocket science when you don't know it. Once you understand it, it's more like plumbing!"~John McGann
"IT'S T-R-E-M-O-L-O, dangit!!"~Me
The purty part, the highly flamed back. Nobody is going to buy an ugly instrument.
Are you sure about that?
Bill Snyder
My instrument is kinda ugly...I like it that way
No...YOU stand back.
The wood. If it's not wood......
The basal ganglia.
the set-up.
mandolinosoarus rex
The friends you play Music with, and the Brewskis.
writing about music
is like dancing,
about architecture
the discussions about what is the most important part...
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