How many of you play mandolin?

[Bluegrass Phil]

I've playing mandolin for about 30 years now and I'm lucky enough to have asked the great John Monteleone to build me one in 1982. Now I would be able to afford it but it's such a great instrument, I will never sell it.

[shadco]

Actually, it looks as though it may be one of the mandolin store's custom distressed Weber models.

I've owned a few Webers' and feel Bruce makes a nice instrument.

 This one above looking to be a fine example!

Yep it's a DiamondBack

1 look at the frets though and you can tell it gets played, a lot.

I'm thinking about getting a refret in stainless

[ryler]

I saw your post over on the mandolin cafe about your trip to the Mandolin Store.  I would love to be able to sit down with that many mandolins around me at one time.  You must of thought you died and gone to mando heaven  :winking:


My son has been playing for just over 2 years and I promised him when he started that I'd get him an F style if he practiced hard and stuck with it.  Well, he kept his end of the bargain so I had to keep mine. Here is a picture of him just after opening the case and one of him playing it.  And here is a link to a video of him playing it last night.  Great mando, but I still prefer my Larrivee A-33 over it!

John

Lonesome Fiddle Blues on Weber Yellowstone

Wow, your son was amazing! 

[joe1953]

  I love the mandolin so much, I could possibly give up guitar for it ( though I'd probably get more gigs AND money for my guitar playing )
Just have a Michael Kelly A+ that works for me. My friend Andy won at Winfield ( not sure if it was guitar or mando ), won a Gallagher guitar. But more importantly, he's the owner of a new Larivee F model!. It was only a couple of weeks old when he let me play it. What a nice instrument! I'll never be able to justify that kind of money to my wife but IF I had disposable income, I'd dispose of it that way............

[vates]

+1 here
The fiddler in our band started playing mandolin (some songs required its sound more than the violin's), and after trying his 1919 Lyon&Healey, I was converted too.
It feels very easy and fun to play. Currently making first steps on Fender FM62SCE thinline but definitely see a "proper" acoustic in my future.
Maybe even a Larry, if I'll be lucky enough to find one used.
Cheers!
 

[Dotneck]

I stuck my toe in the water over the past couple years, too. Been trying out Eastmans (Eastmen?). I'd love to try a Larrivee but I've never seen one around here...

[vates]

Wow! Beautiful Eastmans! I tried 505 at our recording session recently. Liked it very much.
Though I knew that I'd be restless until getting a Larry :) So one deal is in works now ;)

[rockstar_not]

I can do the two finger chords when called upon.  Don't have my own however.  http://www.tennesseesounds.com/Articles.asp?ID=252

[vates]

I'm a beginner on mando too. According to Joe Walsh pegnation course you can use D, C, ang G chord patterns to play virtually any chord. Easier than on guitar ;)

[mike in lytle]

 
The pic is of my Suzuki mandolin which was given to me as a gift 40 years ago.
It is the instrument I have owned the longest. It is pictured with my newest guitar, a Forum V RS-4.
The neck has sort of split from the body, so it is no longer playable.
I used it on some home recordings. I would like to get another mandolin.
Mike

[vates]

Beautiful guitar on the background!
 

[mike in lytle]

Beautiful guitar on the background!

A convenient cameo appearance opportunity.
Mike
Suzuki Model 45

[ollaimh]

Very nice Atlas! Do you know the builder's name?

i remember seeing a few magic twangers plaued in vancouver and victoria back in the eighties and ninties.  they are really cool.  i found a warby octave mandolin a few years ago. had a top crack that was repaired but the tone is fantastic. better than many that cost three times as much terry warby is a great ugy and a loss to instrument making as he now mostly makes jewelry.  he found he made a lot more money with that, and had more creative range.  cool instruments.

[ollaimh]

i have never tried a larrivee mandolin. wish i could decades ago i was in spokane washington at the "sound hole" music store and found a gibson 1924 snakehead A mandolin. rode hard but a cannon. bought it and never looked back.  i am not a new high end mando guy.   i love the sound of old gibsons from the teens and twenties and i think they are waaaay under priced to this day.  (except for lloyd loar f 5s).  i have a refinished snake head and a 1919 a4 now, different but all fantastic mandolins with that loud woody tone that made gibson famous. i have a couple of japanes or korean cheap ones that have good tone. there are some decent asian mandolins, and i prefer my korean special for busking in winter.(an aspen f hole A)



i would like to try a larrivee someday.

[dlsteel]

i have 2 jcl mandos. a F-33 and an oval A. BOTH ARE EPIC

[vates]

i have 2 jcl mandos. a F-33 and an oval A. BOTH ARE EPIC

 

[TacomaDR20]

jBovier F-5 Vine.  Carved Sitka top, carved maple b/s

[obe-wan]

My Eastman 805V.

Cheers, Scott.

[tulk1]

I recently picked up this bad boy. Octave Mandolin

[vates]

Lovely!