Any mandolin players?

Chuckman said:
Thinking about picking it up....
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I’ve never played one but can highly recommend this shop. They sell them, and also offer lessons. Close to the state fairgrounds in Raleigh.
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Mandolins

Harry's Guitar Ship provides top notch gear, service and instruction to all types of musicians, from professionals to first-time buyers. Shop Harry's for acoustic and electric guitars, folk instruments, amps and accessories. Trust Harry's to repair your instrument and for the first music lessons...
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fieldgrade said:
I’ve never played one but can highly recommend this shop. They sell them, and also offer lessons. Close to the state fairgrounds in Raleigh.
harrysguitarshop.com

Mandolins

Harry's Guitar Ship provides top notch gear, service and instruction to all types of musicians, from professionals to first-time buyers. Shop Harry's for acoustic and electric guitars, folk instruments, amps and accessories. Trust Harry's to repair your instrument and for the first music lessons...
harrysguitarshop.com harrysguitarshop.com
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Thanks. I'll check it out.

About half the time I am introduced to someone and they learn my last name I am asked if I play. So I figure I may as well do it.
 
I love the sound of a mandolin played well. First person I think about is bluegrass legend Bill Monroe. A friend gifted me a cheaper mandolin a few years ago cause I had talked about liking to learn how to play either banjo or mandolin. He found a Chinese made mandolin nib at a yardsale and now I've been very slowly messing with it. No where near "playing" anything but I'm hopeful to atleast be able to pick at it one day. Tons of great vids on the youtube from very first lessons on proper holding all the way to expert playing. And here is a couple of my fav bill monroe mandolin tunes for inspiration. Wish you luck sir on your mandolin adventure
 
That’s a nice looking eight string axe you got yourself there. Nice looking scrollwork too.
 
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Many years ago, I worked in a franchised restaurant down east that was owned by a guy who owned several businesses. His main business was a music shop. Come to find out, in the 60's and 70's he was a pretty well known session musician and studio guitarist out in California who specialized in various 'non-traditional' string instruments. If a rock band needed a mandolin (or lute, or dulcimer, or whatever) player for a part of a song, they'd call him in to the studio - usually uncredited. He played with a lot of the big names of the times before eventually having to stop due to nerve damage in his wrists and hands. But as a result of his musical career, he had made a LOT of connections and was often enlisted to find rare guitars/instruments for high end players or broker high end guitar sales between artists. He once told me that he did more than 90% of his business on the phone and not in the store. It was wild hanging out there.

But to get to the point, when the band "The Hooters" got popular in the 80's, they used an old (Gibson, I think) mandolin in their song "And We Danced" and others. Come to find out, the guy from the Hooters had bought that mandolin from my boss (either directly or through a connection, I don't remember the details). My boss said that he had found it at a swap meet somewhere in Virginia (I think at the Fiddlers Convention in Galax, IIRC) and bought it, but never offered it for local sale in the shop because he said it had the best tone he'd ever heard in a mandolin.
 
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This will inspire you.

 
And if you can’t sing or aren’t pretty (I can’t and I’m not)

 
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