Hi everybody, I'm locked down here in UK because of this coronavirus thing; because of my age I'm in a high-risk group apparently but I'm going stir-crazy! Pretty soon i'm going to write The Coronavirus Lockdown Blues/Breakdown/Shuffle - depends on whether I survive and how it turns out...
I want to get an f-style octave mandolin; not a mandola, not an Irish bouzouki, they're not the same thing. Although I have champagne tastes I've only got beer money, so there's no way I can afford something like the Weber I lust after. Not many other luthiers seem to make them, but I've seen that Feeling make one - Chinese, of course. I've also seen them offered by a Chinese company called Pango who claim to manufacture for 'several big-name companies' (Oh yeah? Like who?) The Feeling looks very similar to the Pango product in pictures and may actually be the same thing rebadged.
Does anybody have any experience of either of these brands? If so, what are they like please? Are they worth buying? And just maybe you might have other suggestions?
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