I'm curious how many of y'all have instruments in your offices?
I have a cheap used Lotus A style mando and a Deering Goodtime banjo.
I'm curious how many of y'all have instruments in your offices?
I have a cheap used Lotus A style mando and a Deering Goodtime banjo.
I have a tinwhistle in a drawer of my workbench in the shop because I thought I might play it some day. I never have.
Andrew Mowry
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I keep two mandolins, three guitars, a bass and keyboards in my office.
Of course, I work from home.
A quarter tone flat and a half a beat behind.
At work, I have nothing other than an iPad with a Mandolin Chord App and YouTube. At home however, my work area has a bunch of insturments (fiddle, mando, didgeridoo, tin whistle, keyboard, a couple other that I can't remember)
Heck, yeah! I keep my old Kentucky here and pick it up a few times a day. Not quite as useful as finding an hour of focused practice, but better than nothing.
I usually have my Mix A5 in the office. Don't have to worry about humidity and all that.
Usually only when I have a gig after work, or when I am traveling with the mandolin and leaving from work. Christmas Eve being a major exception.
Clark Beavans
Taylor 210 and the kentucky KM505....good times in Afghanistan...
Pickin' 'Round the world.....Batteries not included
"All I want from life is an unfair advantage" W.C.Fields
A mandolin and a fiddle live at the office.
Yep, a '23 Gibson - playing a few tunes during lunch is a great break from the day.
John Liestman -
Eye new ewe wood lye kit!
I kept a Kentucky KM-340S (my beater) at my office figuring that I would go outside during lunch and take in a quick practice session. That illusion lasted about 6 months when it suddenly struck me that I had yet to do so (too busy at work, even during lunch). I took it home (where it gets played a couple of times a week), mounted a JJB Electronics pickup and use it for plug-in gigs on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Answer: I used to but I don't anymore.
Len B.
Clearwater, FL
I keep a mandolin under my desk and play when I get a few minutes, here and there. That way, I manage to get it at least a little practice most days. Of course, there are only two of us in the office, and we are in and out all day, so I am frequently by myself.
Don't play what's there, play what's not there. - Miles Davis
I build and repair instruments. I have them everywhere.
John Hamlett
www.hamlettinstruments.com
Hey mandobeater! Thanks for your service. I returned from a year in Kandahar in June. I had my Mix mando and a CA dread (just sold that one). Stay safe brother!
Dan
I dont keep any instruments in my office. They dont seem to like the daily excess humidity caused by the shower.
Depending on were I was working during the last 30 plus years, I always have a mandolin stashed somewhere at work or else I carry one in with me daily. This is, of course, to prevent MWS (Mandolin Withdrawal Syndrome).
Peace
Used to keep a ukulele in my office. I think the non picking masses thought it was weird. But they're just missing out.
My 1937 Gibson A-00 lives under my desk and comes out regularly for lunch and breaks. Sometimes it gets played more that the other two mandos at home.
Jammin' south of the river
'20 Gibson A-2
Stromberg-Voisinet Tenor Guitar
Penny Whistle
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That's right, "Sometimes it gets played more that the other two mandos at home...." particularly -while- it's getting played. There are hazards. I have a Strad-o-lin I take to (and sometimes keep at) work. This week it fueled an inopportune glance through the for-sale ads... hunger pangs. I'll tell you how it works out -- an identical twin sister with a hairdo that says Orpheum.
You live and you learn (if you're awake)
... but some folks get by just making stuff up.
Michael T.
A beater homemade mandolin (featured in the ugliest scroll of the last century thread) and a violin that I got in trade for a samick mandolin. I play them whenever I get really wound up and need a break.
They are on a shelf behind me and visible during video Skype, so I get lots of comments from my clients.
Ha, ha! keep time: how sour sweet music is,
When time is broke and no proportion kept!
--William Shakespeare
Office? I ain't got no stinkin' office! Not for the last 11 years, anyway. Just a massively over-cluttered basement room with a desk, computer, dozens of instrument cases, and a few other odd pieces of furniture. Oh, and a seldom-used treadmill.
When I had an office, there'd sometimes be a concertina under the desk, if I had an after-work gig and didn't want to leave it in a freezing car. Bosses I had would have disapproved in-office music making. Doesn't fit in with the Police Department image, somehow.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
I keep two mandolins in the studio - one bowlback and my poor battered Hathway - there's more room than i got at home [though i do keep a cumbus-mando at home in case of emergencies].
The studio has advantages, the temperature is constant, its closer to the weekly session spot, and the guy who shares the studio has two guitars stashed in his room so there's no trouble from him.
It does mean that i get a little... sidetracked from work time to time though.
Sure am glad nobody here is an air traffic controller.
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