Three things:
1) if you try mandolin and like it, you will quickly come to expect similar tone and feel as you do from guitars. I would assume after a long time guitar player you won't be satisfied...
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Three things:
1) if you try mandolin and like it, you will quickly come to expect similar tone and feel as you do from guitars. I would assume after a long time guitar player you won't be satisfied...
Great tune so I'll raise you this one with twin mandolin harmony:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDcxHWglzkI
We get a lot of mileage out of 'my favorite things'. Not EXACTLY christmas, but people seem to get it.
I had an Eastman 305 OM and moved on to a Northfield arch top OM in mahogany.
The Northfield is how I fell for the OM in the first place. I was at Carter Vintage and spent half a day playing...
To me, these also vary with ease of transition and playability for those who already know how to play mandolin. Octave mandolin is a big mandolin tuned exactly one octave lower - meaning everything...
Jesse was so far ahead and afield of his contemporaries, it seems, despite his obvious connection to the 'roots'. The album of Grateful Dead covers, for example. For anyone not already in the know,...
The great John Duffy was credited with claiming, "I open my case when the man opens his wallet". Some support for the other side of the practicing coin. If you don't know John, don't be offended. If...
What a wonderful world we live in where two people can share this moment with each other, record it, and then share it with us. Such a cool thing to witness and get to be privy to. Thank you, Mr....
A musician and a drummer walk in to a bar . . . . .
I live in Abingdon and I couldn't go last year. Not sure about this year, yet. I have to play it by ear. Which is the only way I know how:)
Is it possible to have found the holy grail mandolin but not own it?
I have great mandolins (Duff A5 2015 and an early 21st century small builder monroe F5 copy) but I have PLAYED several that...
Happy to hear about this buying experience, Daryl - enjoy it and keep havin' fun!!
Chris
Man, this is great! How did I miss all this stuff?
Great stuff and thanks everyone so far for providing me with exploration material!
I apologize for the lack of mandolin content, but figured this group might be able to help.
I feel in love with all things bluegrass in the '90s and spent most of the next 15 years in a bluegrass...
I had a thread on this also: https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/threads/122051-your-mandolin-ownership-history
but I'll add mine here, too because it's fun to reflect over the past (wow) 30 years:...
In the interest in full disclosure.
I totally forgot I could set up the instrument. i guess I assumed it came to me in ideal playing condition.
I put the mandola gage strings on. And now I have...
Hey daryl,
I own a recent duff A5 and chose it over a lengthy trial period during which I played a few of your mandos! I have played the k&k A5 at carters and it is nearly identical to mine. The...
Thanks, guys.
I know I'm lucky - i live about 5 hours from Nashville. Getting to go there and play everything is like going to Disneyland as a kid for this almost 50 year old adult.
My bigger issue...
Well after playing the eastman octave (with mandola gage strings and upgraded rubners) I gotta say . . . . .I really miss the instruments I played at Carter Vintage. I guess I've been around long...
Cool to see this thread still alive and to check out y'alls histories.
After 5 years I have a few to add:
2016 Sold the Weber because the neck was too fat for me
mandolinless, I made a trip to...
Just to keep things real, I found an Eastman octave mando in the classifieds and it will be here just after christmas! Thanks all, Scott, and RA!
Thanks, again, everyone. Just to keep the thread going, I have focused on owning-to-try-out an octave or 'dola next, then hope for a 'cello at some point. I guess I should have known this would be...
So many great suggestions - and so many variations on the mandolin theme!! Currently I'm lusting after an eastman octave like several mentioned as well as an eastman 'cello either F hole or oval. But...
Wow, so many things I did not know. Or didn't realize I knew. Octar/guitar body octave mandolin vs. octave mandolin. Yes, I also forgot about resonators and mando basses but I'll have to eat this...