Re: Thoughts on neck profiles and a mandolin upgrade
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Originally Posted by
darylcrisp
for some of us we simply have to get something in our hands and play it a while to determine if its going to work.
daryl offers really good perspective here. There’s lots of advice repeated in this forum about playing an instrument before you buy it, and while that approach may work in some instances and for some people, it hasn’t been the best for me. I might get a sense of an instrument’s tone or feel in a store, but I only get a real understanding of what it can do (or what I can do with it) after owning it for a few months. Like daryl, I bought an early Pava on reputation and am glad that I did. But over time, I found (again like daryl) that its neck had more meat in the shoulders than a Collings MT I preferred and so I sold it (and ultimately the Collings as well). Sometimes it takes a while before you realize that certain instruments just make it easier for you to make music on them. Those ones are the true keepers.
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