You might be a Mandolin picker .......

[scoutwhite]

you search the Grateful Dead sites for info about Grisman...
you called in sick the day after Rigel Instruments closed it's doors

[an uncalloused fingertip]

If you are asked ... "Can you play that on the guitar?"

[F5G WIZ]

If your banjo player has ever told you to "Slow down a little!!"

[maroon]

If you've stayed up until 1:59:57 a.m. in order to press "enter" at just the right time on ebay . . . you might be a mandolin picker.

[ourgang]

If you buy a custom made mandolin, hold it, carress it, strap it over your right shoulder, take it with you where ever you go, but play only well enough to force a melody, you might be a "God!! I wish that I could play like that" mandolin picker.

[ajh]

You folks are scaring me .....90% of this stuff applies.

Tony

[Dru Lee Parsec]

You might be a mandolin player if:

You believe that in hell, mandolins are tuned with all A strings.

[Joe F]

... if you keep a Golden Gate pick in your pocket at all times, "just in case."

[arbarnhart]

Yeah, I am nailed by the one recurring theme...

Back in my early days the wallet had that circle worn into the leather where something was inside in case I got lucky; now it's a triangle...

[Doug Edwards]

You're obsessed with coaxing "that tone" to come out of whatever label you play with.

(coaxing could be defined by methods/lessons, and/or accessories such as Gards, picks, arm rests ect. Unfortunately many of us try to buy a game rather than truly developing one. I must confess I may be guilty.)

[monk]

you might be a mandolin player if your buddy says "look at that eye candy" and you expect to see a beautiful mandolin .... then you realize he is talking about a woman. (That happened to me...I still don't know whether to laugh or cry.)

[Dan Adams]

You're wondering if eight (8) mandolins are enough to play any genre that may come your way. Darn! Forgot Swing? Dan

[PhilGE]

...everytime you pass an estate sale or flea market, you ponder the possiblity of it holding an undiscovered Loar.

That would be me, living not too far from K'zoo...

You might be a mandolin picker if "chopping in the woodshed" sounds like fun.

...if you hear the term "three points" and you don't think of basketball.

...if you think rubber grommets are for made for silencing.

[Mando-Loon]

If you ever seriously considered naming your daughter Amanda Lynn.

I have but my wife won't let me.

[Mando-Loon]

If you've got twelve lonely guitars.

(Canadian) If you say "A" instead of "eh"

Robbie

[F5G WIZ]

Me too I have three daughter's, suggested it for all three and was shot down on all three.

[mandomurph]

...you like paired strings because they double your chances of hitting the right note.

[F5G WIZ]

If you own a mandolin that has had the strings changed at least 6 times in the last 6 months and a guitar that has had the same strings for 6 years, you might be a mandolin picker.

[mcgroup53]

If your in a crowd of people, listening to music, and you are the only one clapping to the off beat, you might be a mandolin picker.


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If you spell you're "your" ....

[F5G WIZ]

If you spell you're "your" ....

At least I didn't spell it "Yer".

[Aran]

You might be a mandolin picker:

IF YOU THINK THAT "F" IS THE KEY OF LOVE

[Blewgrasser]

If someone hands you a Mandolin and the first thing you do is "snif" the sound hole.
You might be a mandolin picker...........

[Jim MacDaniel]

If your "mandoline" is your favorite kitchen tool.

[Ted Eschliman]

You're introduced at a gathering as the guy/gal who plays the...
<confused pause, momentary puzzled look as the mouth fails to form the words>
followed by the person lightly balling the hand and waving the wrist at midchest level.

[i35bluegrass]

If the tips of your fingers always have that green look to them.