So, no one at my school actually knows what a mandola is but me. I get stopped and asked by people if they can see my ukulele, cello, guitar, violin, bass (don't even know...) or sitar, but I don't think anyone has ever just KNOWN that I was playing a mandola. I converted this with viola strings from an Ovation Mandolin. It rattled when I played it with double courses, so I took off half the strings. I have a use for all the little dangling wires on the instrument, they mute the upper strings so I can make a snare effect; I use that when I'm either playing dance music, or in a setting where I want to be very, very, very subtle. My band Cliff Letters plays this song with more people, and I find I kind of enjoy that sort of thing a littttllllle more. But still. Here it is: When You Talk by Me, my mandola, and I.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVYpm...Ht9GEbRsQY8VcL
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