What do ya'll call your mandos?

[varmonter]

Amanda Lynn.

[MikeZito]

I have a Washburn M1SDL (photo on my profile page) that I have named 'Homer'.

I like oval hole mandolins because the tone reminds me of Jethro Burns - but I probably play the mandolin more like Homer Haynes than Jethro Burns - hence, I named the mandolin 'Homer'.

[Jeff Hildreth]

I do not name inanimate objects.

[Demetrius]

I do not name inanimate objects.

To each their own kind Sir...

[LadysSolo]

I name my cars and trucks, but not my musical instruments.

[Jesse Kinman]

Amanda Lynn.

Great minds think alike...hahaha. I call mine Amanda Lynn too!

[Austin Bob]

I call mine Sweet Melissa.

Well, because back home, I will always run to her.

[Tom Sanderson]

I call them what they are, no pet names. F5 & Ajr.

[Payton]

I call mine every name in the book when I'm practicing and sound just like the first day I started. You know it's always the mandolins fault! 😉

Payton

[Lowlands Blue]

I refer to mine as my hatchet. I've always referred to my guitar as axe and thought hatchet a perfect name for the mandolin.

Credit goes to one of the members here that uses it in his or her signature

[lenf12]

I call them what they are, no pet names. F5 & Ajr.

Me too Tom (may be a Florida thing?). There's only one exception in my stable; my electric is called "Little Tele" but that's what it is.



Len B.
Clearwater, FL

[Denny Gies]

It's my mandolin.....duh.

[GeoMandoAlex]

Michael Kelly Firefly---Firefly
Weber Gallatin---My Gal or Web (name just has not stuck yet)
Alverez Yairi GY-1---Jerry
Weymann tenor banjo---have not given a name yet. This was my father's banjo so the name will have come in time.

Yes, I name inanimate objects (musical instruments, trucks, cars, etc.)

[Sakamichi]

I call my Ibanez Mandy Lynn, but hopefully soon I can call her "sold".

My Morris is named Bonnie, short for Bonnie Blue.

[JeffD]

Well, it was all
That I could do to keep from crying'
Sometimes it seemed so useless to remain
But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
You never even called me by my name

You don't have to call me Waylon Jennings
And you don't have to call me Charlie Pride
And you don't have to call me Merle Haggard anymore
Even though you're on my fighting' side

And I'll hang around as long as you will let me
And I never minded standing' in the rain
But you don't have to call me darlin', darlin'
You never even called me by my name

[Joey Anchors]

The Eastman MD404 is name "Fiore"



And the soon to be finished Crystal Forest A/N 5er is be named "Penelope"

[Trav'linmando]

[QUOTE=Joey Anchors;1582309]The Eastman MD404 is name "Fiore"



Joey, I named my 404 Cleo Patra. To honor my grandmother.

[Chris Daniels]

I was going to say I don't name them, but then I remembered the entries in my signature and decided perhaps I do nickname them instead. It's a romantic thought.

But then I realised not really. I don't ever refer to my mandolins (or guitars, vehicles, possessions, etc) by anything other than the make and/or model and/or type: The Northfield or F5. The Flatiron or Flat top (or very rarely 'flattie' if being I'm feeling less than pedantic or have been drinking a little too much. Or both). The Kentucky or Oval. The Epiphone or Mandobird or electric mando. The Banjolele or that thing that's never in tune.

What's in my sig just popped into my head as something entertaining mostly to myself and they have individually changed over time as I get bored with what's there. I'm perfectly fine with others naming their stuff but it's the thing itself and the memories surrounding it that matter to me. I'm just lucky to have named my kid!

C.

[MediumMando5722]

I get very creative. My mandolin is "the Eastman." My Fender Strat is "the red Strat." My newest acoustic guitar is "the new guitar." The 70's Iida Masterclone is... "the banjo."

[zedmando]

I call my instruments what they are (guitar, bass, mandolin.
Or I call them by brand &/or model name--or type

So my only mandolin is eitehr my mandolin of Mandobird.
But not often would it be my Epi or Epiphone--maybe if I had more than one Mandolin.

[JeffD]

Most of the folks I play with do not indulge in more than one or two instruments. If they do, they pick one and are always seen with it. So I go along to get along. What ever I am playing is "my mandolin", and when I say "Gotta go home and pick up my mandolin" there is no telling which one. I never ever say "one of my mandolins".

[NursingDaBlues]

Most of the folks I play with do not indulge in more than one or two instruments. If they do, they pick one and are always seen with it. So I go along to get along. What ever I am playing is "my mandolin", and when I say "Gotta go home and pick up my mandolin" there is no telling which one. I never ever say "one of my mandolins".

I like -- and appreciate -- your style. Seriously.

[William Smith]

Funny Stuff, well my one F-7 conversion -Loar Buster, other one the 37! My new/old 36 fern-Dawg anything else is by the name of the instrument like Clarence/Burton, my 57 D-18-hey its 57! Stuff like that

[Bertram Henze]

What ever I am playing is "my mandolin", and when I say "Gotta go home and pick up my mandolin" there is no telling which one. I never ever say "one of my mandolins".

[NursingDaBlues]

I’ve had all sorts of names for my mandolins; never called one “mando” though. Just a personal thing.