Re: Do any companies make bowlback mandolins and banjolins anymor
What my da did was take a bit of shoelace and around the headstock under the strings above the nut, and then at the tailpiece where that fancy scrollwork is he ties it *very lightly off* there. It'll roll a bit while you play up towards you, but we've found if you hold your picking arm a bit under it like a lute (really a bowlback is played more like a lute anyway), it negates the roll. Eventually my sister made him a custom bit of silk strapping for it with snaps and everything really fancy, but he left that in Egypt, so now it's back to the shoelace again lol
I myself play sitting down.
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