I have been spending time recently around Mike Compton hearing him play both his Duff and Gilchrist mandolas. Obviously, I'll never make one sound like him, but that gutteral, deep-throated tone is giving me chillblaines these days. What does everyone think about some of the modern mandolas? I know Kimbles reign, but short of that, what's the take on the Collings MT mandolas? And there's a gorgeous Mowry at Carmel Music that Dexter is very excited about, but I don;t know if I want to go that far. Anyone own an Eastman 815 mandola who can talk about it?
Thanks,
Dave McCarty
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