I was brainstorming a name for my mandolin and was thinking about what names the pro's have used:
Sam Bush: Hoss
Jeff Austin: Heartattack
CJ Lewandowski: Hulk
That's about as far as I got off the top of my head....anyone know any?
I was brainstorming a name for my mandolin and was thinking about what names the pro's have used:
Sam Bush: Hoss
Jeff Austin: Heartattack
CJ Lewandowski: Hulk
That's about as far as I got off the top of my head....anyone know any?
David Grisman: Crusher.
Can't forget "Dude". Chris's old ax.
I don't know if Bill named his mandolin. Maybe Pokerface.
We few, we happy few.
Ronnie McCoury's 1981 "S" hole Gilchrist: Ole Red
#128 Ole Red
I don't know of any mandloin names but I think Willie Nelson calls his famous guitar "Trigger".
For those who wonder why reading this thread makes you feel vaguely uncomfortable, here's an article about the concept of naming stuff that you own:
https://www.thecut.com/2017/11/the-p...our-stuff.html
I named my #15 "The Penetrator". You could stand outside one of those tight closed jams and chop and heads would turn.
Last edited by Jim Hilburn; Feb-12-2020 at 9:47am.
Ali Stephens named all her instruments.
http://www.alisonstephens.com/
I was always v fond of 'Beast', a beautiful octave mandolin.
My favorite paragraph:
So why don’t we name a toilet, considering how important it is? The answer, Peterson said, lies partly in social status: “If you’re going to name something, there’s a chance someone is going to hear the name,” he explained. Since you’re probably not going to be chatting with friends about your porcelain throne, you’re not likely to name it.
Jim
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Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
I always like to introduce new visitors to my house to "Geoffrey".So why don’t we name a toilet, considering how important it is? The answer, Peterson said, lies partly in social status: “If you’re going to name something, there’s a chance someone is going to hear the name,” he explained. Since you’re probably not going to be chatting with friends about your porcelain throne, you’re not likely to name it.
Let's see: over there is Sid "Swingline" Stapler. And there is Bachelor the Spatula. And Fred the Fire Extinguisher. And, of course, Porky the Porcelain Throne™.
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
I think this is a very personal thing.. I've never named any inanimate object, except ironically, but I know people who take it very seriously as part of the bonding process. "Sweet new laptop, what are you going to name it?" "The Dell".
Robin Bullock's three Gibson A's are - The Feral Cat, Coyote and Black Beastie.
My Gibson A Jr. is "junior". The Kalamazoo is "Beater" because it is my beater instrument (and a reference to LOTR Glamdring).
Brentrup Model 23, Boeh A5 #37, Gibson A Jr., Flatiron 1N, Coombe Classical flattop, Strad-O-Lin
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So far, I've never named an instrument. But, I did notice an interesting acronym could result from my new blue Fender Alternate Reality Tenor. Maybe not so much a name as a title is in order.
“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher ‘standard of living’ is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free.” -- Aldo Leopold
My girlfriend loved the new Acura so much that "I will name him George, and I will hug him, and pet him, and squeeze him." That led to the older Mercedes becoming "Paul," and the much older banged up Honda Accord with peeling paint becoming "Ringo," the funny looking one.
I had friends—both gone now—that named many objects in their home. The refrigerator was Francine, the kitchen wastebasket Carl, and the wide two-drawer filing cabinet answered to Gomez.
Jethro Burns called his red two point Gibson "Big Red".
I call my mandolin "Scordato", which is the Italian term for "out of tune".
"it's not in bad taste, if it's funny" - john waters
And there we have it Louise and all, "and the wide two-drawer filing cabinet answered to Gomez."
Rush Burkhardt
Towson, MD
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I think it may be different for famous mandolin wielders like Grisman and Jethro Burns. I wonder if the reason they do it is more similar to the practical reason people name boats. Performers get interviewed by the press, questioned by the public, and their instrument choices are studied (by us), so they need a way to refer to them.
For many of us "my mandolin" is good enough, but the more you own the less useful this becomes -- for some even "my Gibson" could cover any of a half dozen instruments. Perhaps that is when naming them becomes linguistically inevitable. And indeed Marty, now I come to think of it, you actually have named many mandolins.
I call my new to me Eastman the Banjo Killer.
Being right is overrated. Doing right is what matters.
Northfield F5S Blacktop
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