Name Your Instruments? - Page 3

D C Blood · 03-13-2009, 05:34 PM

Ken Ratcliff has been naming his Silver Angels (and previously, Silver Eagles) ever since he first started making them. At least all the F-models...(mine is Cynthia) He pencils the name on the inside of the back...I've found that some folks who have bougt Silver Angels used didn't realize that they were named, and when I pointed it out to them they were quite surprised.

Tracy Tucker · 03-13-2009, 05:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Overcast

I was thinking about "Mandy Lynn"

That's what my husband calls ME! I haven't given my mandolin a name, but he calls it 'Morris,' 'cause it's a Morris! (Creative, ain't he?!)

mandopete · 03-13-2009, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim MacDaniel

Hmmm... I nicknamed my "kids" in the order in which they came into our lives: my dog Jack is #1, and my boy Aidan is #2, so maybe I should call my most recent mandolin #3.

Jim, that's just wrong man.

So I've been looking at that avatar of yours and I kept thinking, "that reminds me of something...."

Tracy Tucker · 03-13-2009, 05:44 PM

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Originally Posted by JEStanek

Mine have neither a name or a gender. I just refer to them by who made them, Labraid, Spira, Eastman. I call the octave, The Octave and the bowlback, The Bowlback. I also often refer to my son as The Boy.

Jamie

Then it's quite fitting that your avatar is you as The Joker!!

billkilpatrick · 03-13-2009, 06:15 PM

... bob.

Brian T · 03-13-2009, 07:02 PM

One is called Sweetness. My Randy Wood I call Nanook (got it form Alaska). And my other one was already named Emma Rose.

Jim MacDaniel · 03-13-2009, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by mandopete

jim, that's just wrong man.

So i've been looking at that avatar of yours and i kept thinking, "that reminds me of something...."

LMAO!

BTW Pete, thank to your post, I now have a new way to totally waste time when I should be working: browsing totallylookslike.com for avatar ideas...

JEStanek · 03-13-2009, 07:30 PM

Jim's given me some inspiration. Another great Tim Burton movie...

I'm not so serious.

Jamie

Mark Walker · 03-13-2009, 07:51 PM

DC Blood is quite correct. My Silver Angel is named 'Oliva.' (Not 'Olivia' - only one 'i' in the name.) The mandolin player in the Gospel/Bluegrass band I'm in (Jackie Walters - AKA 'Angelfire') has a Silver Angel A-style named 'Angelina Abril' - or I guess "April Angel." I've had a number of Silver Angel owners email me - the names of their instruments include Gabrielle, Selena, Carmelita, Yana, Carolina, and Tamara - just to name a few.

You gotta peek inside the F-holes to see the names, but Ken Ratcliff usually has the name 'within sight.'

He (Ken) also - on a semi-related note - has been known to write a few lines (often in Spanish) on the 'bottom of the top' with his thoughts about how that particular mandolin's crafting was going or how good he thought it would sound. Gotta use a dental mirror to see that though!

Jim MacDaniel · 03-14-2009, 12:02 PM

"Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, BEETlejuice."

Andrew DeMarco · 03-14-2009, 12:09 PM

My Collings A is named George Washington Carver.

Man of Wax · 03-14-2009, 12:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Kip Sheldahl

My new Eastman 505 is named Mars because there is a small irregularity that looks like the red "spot" on Mars...

Should be Jupiter, no?

F-2 Dave · 03-14-2009, 01:18 PM

My old Gibson I call "The old F-2". My electric I call "The old Fender electric". I know that doesn't show much imagination, but I did have a Westie named Vassar Clements once.

Ken Berner · 03-14-2009, 02:03 PM

Hey Turtle Hoarder, Instead of Aura Lee how about Verba Lee? I know, I know. Anyway, one of mine is named "Chatty".

Jordan Young · 03-14-2009, 06:22 PM

I named my Gibson f5 Bessie Lee lol I bet some of you Monroe historians might have a clue why lol
I know this dont deal with mandolins but i named my dog Mandy Lynn

allenhopkins · 03-14-2009, 07:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Jordan Young

I named my Gibson f5 Bessie Lee lol I bet some of you Monroe historians might have a clue why lol...

Yeah, but we don't get maudlin (Mauldin?) about it...

mandozilla · 04-08-2009, 06:43 AM

OK, moving on to Beaters, my Beater's name is 'Dawg Bone'.

(sorry Lee) It ain't real purty but it serves the purpose and she gets a ding or two

now and then I don't freak out.

Roger Skipper · 04-08-2009, 07:55 AM

I named the first 26 mandolins, using a woman's name beginning with the appropriate letter of the alphabet. My favorite was Ethel, a quite plain model with a lot of charm. I was glad, though, when number 27 came around and I could move on.

Roger Skipper
www.skipperstrings.com

tree · 04-08-2009, 10:33 AM

"And often she wishes that, when they were born,
She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn
And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm.
And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim.
And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey.
And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey.
Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face.
Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face.
And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff.
One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff.
And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed.
And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed.
And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt
And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt
And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate ...
But she didn't do it. And now it's too late."

I STILL love Dr. Seuss.

I'm going with Ziggy. Or Stinkey.

Eddie Sheehy · 04-08-2009, 11:59 AM

Mine is Old Man Dolan...

viv · 04-08-2009, 11:56 PM

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Originally Posted by JEStanek

Jim's given me some inspiration. Another great Tim Burton movie...

I'm not so serious.

Jamie

LMAO double strength to the 193rd power!

p.s. pardon mah frainch..........

Kip · 04-09-2009, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Man of Wax

Should be Jupiter, no?

ooops. well the mando won't notice.

Jupiter it is.

John Rosett · 04-09-2009, 02:08 PM

I named my instruments, but when I tried to introduce them to others, they said "No names please, we've already been humiliated enough!"

Frank Russell · 04-09-2009, 03:33 PM

I was always taught never to name my horses, because you shouldn't name what you might have to eat. For me, I love them all, but I don't want to name something I might sell or trade. Frank

Hammrn · 04-11-2009, 07:44 PM

It takes a turtle hoarder to pry the names of my mandolins out into the public eye, but you may be disapointed. They all,(three) have the same name, the same as my 67 BSA, which are named after the heroine in the Dudley DoRight cartoons, Nell. It gets a little confusing sometimes, but thank God I can't play and ride at the same time!

03-13-2009, 05:34 PM	#51
D C Blood mandolinist, Mixt Company Join Date: May 2006 Location: Madison, Tennessee Posts: 437	Re: Name Your Instruments? Ken Ratcliff has been naming his Silver Angels (and previously, Silver Eagles) ever since he first started making them. At least all the F-models...(mine is Cynthia) He pencils the name on the inside of the back...I've found that some folks who have bougt Silver Angels used didn't realize that they were named, and when I pointed it out to them they were quite surprised. __________________ D C Blood Mixt Company '96 Ratcliff Silver Eagle/Angel www.myspace.com/mixtcompany www.myspace.com/silverangelmandolins http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/album.php?albumid=109 photo album url

03-13-2009, 06:15 PM	#55
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03-13-2009, 07:02 PM	#56
Brian T Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Vancleave, Mississippi Posts: 142	Re: Name Your Instruments? One is called Sweetness. My Randy Wood I call Nanook (got it form Alaska). And my other one was already named Emma Rose.

03-13-2009, 07:30 PM	#58
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03-13-2009, 07:51 PM	#59
Mark Walker Closet Mandolin Player Join Date: May 2005 Location: Wayland, Michigan Posts: 1,451	Re: Name Your Instruments? DC Blood is quite correct. My Silver Angel is named 'Oliva.' (Not 'Olivia' - only one 'i' in the name.) The mandolin player in the Gospel/Bluegrass band I'm in (Jackie Walters - AKA 'Angelfire') has a Silver Angel A-style named 'Angelina Abril' - or I guess "April Angel." I've had a number of Silver Angel owners email me - the names of their instruments include Gabrielle, Selena, Carmelita, Yana, Carolina, and Tamara - just to name a few. You gotta peek inside the F-holes to see the names, but Ken Ratcliff usually has the name 'within sight.' He (Ken) also - on a semi-related note - has been known to write a few lines (often in Spanish) on the 'bottom of the top' with his thoughts about how that particular mandolin's crafting was going or how good he thought it would sound. Gotta use a dental mirror to see that though! __________________ "The more I learn, the more I realize how ignorant I truly am..."

03-14-2009, 12:02 PM	#60
Jim MacDaniel Carpe plectrum. Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Oakland, CA Posts: 2,813	Re: Name Your Instruments? "Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, BEETlejuice."

03-14-2009, 12:09 PM	#61
Andrew DeMarco Registered User Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Philadelphia, PA Posts: 385	Re: Name Your Instruments? My Collings A is named George Washington Carver. __________________ Collings MT Weber Gallatin Mandocello Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. -Samuel Taylor Coleridge

03-14-2009, 01:18 PM	#63
F-2 Dave Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Halfway, MO Posts: 143	Re: Name Your Instruments? My old Gibson I call "The old F-2". My electric I call "The old Fender electric". I know that doesn't show much imagination, but I did have a Westie named Vassar Clements once.

03-14-2009, 02:03 PM	#64
Ken Berner Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Fairhope, AL Posts: 1,174	Re: Name Your Instruments? Hey Turtle Hoarder, Instead of Aura Lee how about Verba Lee? I know, I know. Anyway, one of mine is named "Chatty". __________________ "Look upward; He is coming back!"

03-14-2009, 06:22 PM	#65
Jordan Young Registered User Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Sophia West Virginia Posts: 13	Re: Name Your Instruments? I named my Gibson f5 Bessie Lee lol I bet some of you Monroe historians might have a clue why lol I know this dont deal with mandolins but i named my dog Mandy Lynn

04-08-2009, 06:43 AM	#67
mandozilla Mark Evans Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Simi Valley, Ca Posts: 1,282	Re: Name Your Instruments? OK, moving on to Beaters, my Beater's name is 'Dawg Bone'. (sorry Lee) It ain't real purty but it serves the purpose and she gets a ding or two now and then I don't freak out. __________________ "You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can't wipe your friends off on your saddle."

04-08-2009, 07:55 AM	#68
Roger Skipper Fike Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Western Maryland Posts: 15	Re: Name Your Instruments? I named the first 26 mandolins, using a woman's name beginning with the appropriate letter of the alphabet. My favorite was Ethel, a quite plain model with a lot of charm. I was glad, though, when number 27 came around and I could move on. Roger Skipper www.skipperstrings.com

04-08-2009, 10:33 AM	#69
tree Registered User Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Rock Hill, South Carolina Posts: 661	Re: Name Your Instruments? "And often she wishes that, when they were born, She had named one of them Bodkin Van Horn And one of them Hoos-Foos. And one of them Snimm. And one of them Hot-Shot. And one Sunny Jim. And one of them Shadrack. And one of them Blinkey. And one of them Stuffy. And one of them Stinkey. Another one Putt-Putt. Another one Moon Face. Another one Marvin O'Gravel Balloon Face. And one of them Ziggy. And one Soggy Muff. One Buffalo Bill. And one Biffalo Buff. And one of them Sneepy. And one Weepy Weed. And one Paris Garters. And one Harris Tweed. And one of them Sir Michael Carmichael Zutt And one of them Oliver Boliver Butt And one of them Zanzibar Buck-Buck McFate ... But she didn't do it. And now it's too late." I STILL love Dr. Seuss. I'm going with Ziggy. Or Stinkey. __________________ Clark Beavans

04-08-2009, 11:59 AM	#70
Eddie Sheehy Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Irvine, CA Posts: 1,932	Re: Name Your Instruments? Mine is Old Man Dolan... __________________ Expensive Kindling with Strings

04-09-2009, 02:08 PM	#73
John Rosett Registered User Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Missoula, MT Posts: 1,306	Re: Name Your Instruments? I named my instruments, but when I tried to introduce them to others, they said "No names please, we've already been humiliated enough!" __________________ "it's not in bad taste, if it's funny" - john waters

04-09-2009, 03:33 PM	#74
Frank Russell Registered User Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Coachella Valley, CA Posts: 725	Re: Name Your Instruments? I was always taught never to name my horses, because you shouldn't name what you might have to eat. For me, I love them all, but I don't want to name something I might sell or trade. Frank __________________ FJ Russell Es mejor morir de pie que vivir de rodillas. E. Zapata

04-11-2009, 07:44 PM	#75
Hammrn Registered User Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Syracuse, NY Posts: 52	Re: Name Your Instruments? It takes a turtle hoarder to pry the names of my mandolins out into the public eye, but you may be disapointed. They all,(three) have the same name, the same as my 67 BSA, which are named after the heroine in the Dudley DoRight cartoons, Nell. It gets a little confusing sometimes, but thank God I can't play and ride at the same time!