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    What would make you happy ?

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    What would make you happy ?
    The one that makes me sound like Norman Blake

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    The one that makes me sound like Norman Blake

    Do they make one like that ?

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    Is it even possible to live with only one mandolin?
    "Put your hands to the wood
    Touch the music put there by the summer sun and wind
    The rhythms of the rain, locked within the rings
    And let your fingers find The Music in the Wood."
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    Well if you must, my L&H model A asymetrical blond two pointer with a scroll on the headstock. I am in love with it and play it a whole lot, and it does everything with an accuracy and authority and emotional range like nothing else I have played.
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    If I could own only one mandolin, knowing that nobody else could own more than one mandolin would bring me a little satisfaction. I'm shallow like that.
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    Mine would be the Phoenix Jazz.
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    My Spira. (I'm playing with those that I have.) If it could be anything, I would say a Brentrup 3 Pointer blacktop oval hole set up perfectly for me. But, I'm very happy with my Spira.

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    Nugget.
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    I already own the perfect mandolin for my needs, a Mix A4. Booming sound, top quality construction and a built-in Schertler C-Dyn pick-up are all superb, but the winning ticket is the total imperviousness to climatic conditions. Living where temperatures very commonly top 40 degrees C and humidity is frequently north of 90 percent, I don't have to even consider what such conditions do the mandolin, let alone worry about them.

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    Frankly, I would have Bill Monroe's old mandolin - I mean, if we can choose anything. If it's got to be one I actually own then I'll just keep my 2012 Silverangel A style, since it's the only one I've wanted to play since I got it. Just not sure of the rules here...

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    Quote Originally Posted by OldSausage View Post
    Frankly, I would have Bill Monroe's old mandolin - I mean, if we can choose anything. If it's got to be one I actually own then I'll just keep my 2012 Silverangel A style, since it's the only one I've wanted to play since I got it. Just not sure of the rules here...
    Only rule is which "one'' would make you happy, I know it's a little soon for me to be shopping mandolins, just bought a Collings, but I have always wanted a "Ellis".

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    The mandolin that this is becoming. That will be enough.
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    My Heiden F or Ellis A special...both are killer sounding instruments...both make me happy
    .....either would too!
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    Quote Originally Posted by jstout View Post
    Only rule is which "one'' would make you happy
    Well, it's not the mandolin that makes me happy, it's the happy that makes me mandolin!

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    After not a great deal of thought,i'd have to get John Hamlett to re-create this one.One of his self-named 'Firewood' Mandolins.It's possibly the classiest,most beautifully coloured Mandolin,i've ever seen,
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    Dave Peters' A model Nugget.

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    If it were possible, I also would want Bill Monroes mandolin, imagine the spirit that lives within.
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    I've got it - My Smart F5
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    Like some others, I already have my dream; a 1993 Randy Wood F 5. Wouldn't trade it for anything.

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    Ellis

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    Well, now, we can't ALL have Bill Monroe's mandolin. A fight to the death for it seems fair...

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    I wouldn't mind checking out Tim O'Brien's A...

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    Jordan Ramsey's Bush.
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