So we've probably all been asked about our "small guitar", but what else has your mandolin been mistaken for? I've had it mistaken for a banjo (and vice versa too) a fiddle, and an ukulele.
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So we've probably all been asked about our "small guitar", but what else has your mandolin been mistaken for? I've had it mistaken for a banjo (and vice versa too) a fiddle, and an ukulele.
Yep Baby Guitar, What is it? Is that a Uke! No sorry its a mandolin, a what? ya know the thing I was just playing on stage-that's a mandolin-ohhhhhhhh
What kind of banjo do you have in that case? - it was a National RM-1
What’s that instrument called? - “George”
I generally get it as a question, Is that a mandolin? or What's in the case? Or the comment Wow that's beautiful or similar.
My dad tells everyone that asks that I play ukulele. I've corrected him about a dozen times. He is 65 and has no memory problems. I guess he just really likes the uke.
Nothing suitable for a family friendly forum like this!:))
:)) I always get asked about the case (a shaped F style case) whether it holds an ukulele or a fiddle :confused:
I once went into a bank to deposit a check and I was carrying a shaped F style case with my mandolin inside. All the customers and tellers suddenly got very quiet. Wonder what they were thinking?? ;)
Len B.
Clearwater, FL
Well Len, it's simple. When a customer walks into a bank with a violin case people are generally afraid that he has a machine gun in it and will take it out and rob the place. When a customer walks into a bank with a mandolin case they are afraid he's going to take it out and play it. :cool:
I recently played at a church and a very young fellow …. first or second grade came up to me after the set and said" I really like your little guitar". I thanked him, politely corrected him and showed him a little bit of a fiddle tune. I was later told that " he never talks to anyone". The exchange left me feeling like a mandolin ambassador. R/
Often when I tell people who ask that its a mandolin in the case, their response is "what's that". Our work is not done here folks.
Once upon a time, a nice lady referred to my octave mandolin as a "Lithuanian Banjo." No idea how she came up with that.
That’s a good one. I think I’ll use that.
I don't have a good one... but when I tell people I make guitars, they say, "Cool!"
When I tell people I make mandolins, they say, "Why?"
My 10-year-old daughter insists on calling my A a banjo because she enjoys my reaction.
Well,I pretty much played the " man" out of it last night so all I have left is a "dolin"...
I brought in a mandostang once, it got called a mini-strat by the band mates.
I was playing my octave on stage and a fellow came up and said “what is that an oud?” Seemed odd that he knew of an oud but not a big mandolin. Another time I was in the park playing some of the Bach cello suites on my mandolin and a lady came over and asked why I was playing viola music on a ukulele. That seemed odd as well.
I did a solo bit at the last show I did, using my epiphone mm-40. I played some blues, some bluegrass, some folk. About 20 minutes worth.
At the end of the night someone said 'Loved that banjo - you should play more of it!'
I didn't correct them...
I've also been told 'That's not a mandolin. What is it really?'
Erm... an 8-string 1/4 size lute with f-holes? I don't know?