Thanks, everyone, for your responses. I'm going to keep a list of them all and try them all. I have a feeling that this is one of those injuries that is going to recur even after it gets better.
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Thanks, everyone, for your responses. I'm going to keep a list of them all and try them all. I have a feeling that this is one of those injuries that is going to recur even after it gets better.
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Here's my anon. French mandolin, likely from the first half of the 19th c. It's only a little anachronistic, and I still apply the historic stringing from the 18th-c. method books to it. Not easy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOptU-3N_Sg
Solo at 1:10
Heard this song on random and the mandolin double stop accompaniment is very sweet. Discog says Sam Bush is playing but I that’s the only source I found, and they called the song The Great Day. I’m...
Had an itch to get something different. Nothing fancy, just an Eastman MD404 I found used on Reverb. I was immediately struck by how different it sounds from my 2 F-hole mandolins. Sorry for the...
Really enjoyed this video, thanks for posting!
One of my fav songs Alternating Current/Direct Current is Trinitrotoluene.
It’s fab.
Rapid eye movement is another one.
Agreed 100% ... I play very regularly at a jam and have played both an F hole and oval hole at said jam. What I have found is that while an oval has a place in one's arsenal, it typically gets lost...
Ted nailed it. That's why I own both. Like why so many guitarists have different guitars as well as banjo players and fiddlers and dobro, well wait, perhaps not dobros.
I’d rather the plane crash than to have listen to a kazoo
-incorrect Dave!
Have you not considered aircraft accidents? Yes, they do happen.
A flimsy mandolin is obviously out of the question but a Kazoo would be an intelligent instrument to learn.
It...
Based on that thinking we should all be playing the piccolo:))
There is no need to ever check a mandolin. That's why we selected that instrument: Because it will fit in the overhead compartment of any commercial aircraft
I'm glad it had a happy ending. Good luck with your father in this time of transition.
Jamie
One time I was talking to an air hostess, saying I was concerned about losing my guitar on the airline.
She said: lose your guitar? that's nothing, one time we nearly lost the airline!
Long ago I flew into Savannah on a small flight from Atlanta, so everything went underneath. For bag retrieval my approach is to stand back, half way down the carousel and wait till my suitcase...
I would never take my mandolin on a family vacation due to the high cost of divorce but I do take my backup mandolin on work trips. It’s a Kentucky 250 which isn’t an heirloom. In addition to not...
The worst mandolin incident I had in Australia was in 1977, returning from the shower to my cabin in an isolated Western Australian mining camp - I sat on my mandolin, cracking the carved top.
I have accepted to lose a few days of practice every time I travel, because I am too scared of something like this happening.
I am an amateur beginner player, so it is not a big deal for me, but I...
It’s like losing love, you still have the ability or even the memory afterwards, if not the object.
Back in the early 2000's I was flying back to San Francisco after spending 10 months back home in Ireland. I was traveling with my '57 Gibson J50 acoustic guitar and my '68 Gibson Trini Lopez...
Sometimes I look at my octave mandolin and feel really sorry for anyone who has never bonded with a musical instrument* (or their own singing voice).
Imagine?
* Though I don’t mean the specific...
I would be very upset. I have traveled a bit in Oz (for work) and have taken my mando. Fortunately, I have never had a situation where I had to check in my mando. I''m usually on when of those...
I'm so glad your story had a happy ending! Hoping the best for your dad :)
:crying::crying: :grin::grin: :mandosmiley::mandosmiley: