Have you named your mandolin?

[Regulator28]

I named my first, cheap mandolin after my ex-wife........Rufus.

Larry in MD

[Griff]

I was going to add to this thread when it popped up a few months ago, but I figured I'd wait because my mandolins, like my dog and my cat, came to me used. I figured they already had names, but none of them have bothered to tell me what they are. But I keep waiting ...

[Ben Cooper]

Still waiting.... I figure she will tell me her name when she is reasdy!

[teleman73]

One day last spring I named my old Bean Blossom "The Sundance Kid" because it was bright, rowdy, but not super nice either. I have since contemplated naming my Eastman 615 Wyatt Earp because its more well refined and nicer, but it hasn't seemed right yet.

[J.J.mandoline]

mine hasn't got a real name...I got a acoustic\ electric one and an electric one... the name (in italian: il mio nanetto = my little dwarf) is the same for both (but the acoustic seem to be named "little dwarf" more just for the reason that it is played more)
;-)
I'm so happy to play such a little instrument .... otherwise I'm used to the "big baby" trombone

[Londy]

I actually never thought to name my mandolin. I did name the Collings from the give away here at the cafe, but since I lost the contest I decided I would take the name because it SHOULD have won.

Capriccio
Italian musical term meaning fast, intense, and often virtuosic in nature.

[Petrus]

Mandy?

[Ben Cooper]

I actually never thought to name my mandolin. I did name the Collings from the give away here at the cafe, but since I lost the contest I decided I would take the name because it SHOULD have won.

Capriccio
Italian musical term meaning fast, intense, and often virtuosic in nature.

Thats a great name. She still hasn't told me hers though we play every day. I am thinking it is something about her wood though. The birch back and sides give her such a unique and incredible tone!

[pheffernan]

Thats a great name. She still hasn't told me hers though we play every day. I am thinking it is something about her wood though. The birch back and sides give her such a unique and incredible tone!

Thora?

[yankees1]

No I haven't ,but-------------my wife named my mandolin "Kindling" if I don't quit practicing in our living room !

[Markelberry]

I named my A9 its got a crack wore down to bare wood been dropped twice and I almost busted the thing hence the name BUSTER!

[Lord of the Badgers]

If anything, it's "Dave"

Best I could do really. It's inspired by the original owner for whom Phil D made it (Davey Dodds ex-Red Jasper (prog band) who sold it when he gave up playing apparently). Anything else feels pretentious. the others don't have a name though. Occasionally refer unoriginally to the harmonium as Mona.

[Doug Heinold]

I just picked up a 1921 Gibson F4, and although I have never named any of my instruments, I've named her Bonita. I got her in Bonita Springs, FL, and the only thing they could tell me was that it came to them with a Mexican sash. Seems like a fitting homage to the prior owner. I may go with Bonnie for short.

[Aunt Sukey]

I call my Morgan Monroe "Morgan", not very original, but she needed a name.

[Doug Ezell]

My Fern F5 is named: Vern. Vern the Fern.

My octave arrived the day my cabin burned down, hence she is called "Ashley"

Doug in Montana

[grimer]

Nope.

[George R. Lane]

I named my Yellowstone 'Isabella' after Isabella Rossellini, my favorite actress and they both have great curves.

[Ben Cooper]

I love the names and the stories. Keep 'em coming.

[Mickey King]

"Mandy Lynn"

[Mike Steadfast-Ward]

My kids have always named certain possessions of mine eg my workshop became the Wendy House.
My wife brought my last mandolin and wrapped it for Christmas, whenever I asked her a question about it
I got told they haven't got me a mandolin, and when I pointed out the suspicious shaped object I was informed
that they had wrapped some Rhubarb for me to wind me up. Ever since my mandolin goes by the name Rhubarb.

[Mike Steadfast-Ward]

I didn't name my mandolin. But my wife names EVERYTHING. Her Pava is named Wren. She calls my Ellis "that hussy that you always want to spend time with instead of me."

Ha ha he he ho ho, your wife has an amazing sense of humour Tobe.

[Jim Garber]

My wife brought my last mandolin and wrapped it for Christmas, whenever I asked her a question about it
I got told they haven't got me a mandolin, and when I pointed out the suspicious shaped object I was informed
that they had wrapped some Rhubarb for me to wind me up. Ever since my mandolin goes by the name Rhubarb.

Hah! That is great. It also reminds me of Les Paul who's first nom-de-music was Rhubarb Red.

Frankly (no! not that name) I don't name any instruments. First of all, I have way too many and second, I can't even remember my hundreds of passwords and PINs on the computer and elswhere. Besides, even if I named them all, would they come to me when I called them by name?

[Gelsenbury]

Nope.

That's a nice name.

[Patrick Sylvest]

I refer to my instruments by their given names. My Ellis is called, 'My Ellis'. Guess what I call my Weber and my Gibson?

[TheArimathean]

A friend has started calling mine "The Man."