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    Jo Dusepo, luthier Dusepo's Avatar
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    Default A flat back mandolin with an arm?

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    Jo Dusepo, luthier Dusepo's Avatar
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    Default Re: A flat back mandolin with an arm?

    For those hysterical porpoises!


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    Default Re: A flat back mandolin with an arm?

    Oddball harpish mandolin. I assume that the "arm" is both hollow and open to the rest of the body.
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    might just give ya the sound you're looking for!

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    Default Re: A flat back mandolin with an arm?

    And you can use it to hang stockings off the mantle during the holidays.
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    Default Re: A flat back mandolin with an arm?

    Bird house, anyone?
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    Whatever it is, it's a goodun fur shur. Only improvement I could think of would be a nice big squid inlay across the front.
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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeEdgerton View Post
    And you can use it to hang stockings off the mantle during the holidays.
    And place a cold beverage on that mantle, in the off-season!

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    Default Re: A flat back mandolin with an arm?

    If there was is a second one available it would make for a very musical game of Corn-Hole... One could use D'Addario humidification packs instead of bean bags as projectiles.

    I'm surprised it doesn't have the obligatory "Crack has been expertly repaired and cleated. Has been completely stable for many years."
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