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Post by minorkey on Jan 3, 2014 17:13:05 GMT -5
Went into town today to spend my birthday and Christmas money and came away with this little beauty for £60 (reduced from 100) [URL=http://s.photobucket.com/user/Dawnrider/media/1388767823_picsay-1388767823_zpszinkjwhg.jpg .html] [/URL] An A style Mandolin by Deacon. Lovely. Need some resources now...cos I've never played one before!
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Post by Steven B on Jan 3, 2014 18:52:02 GMT -5
good for you! Sharp looking mando. I have a couple of them but mine are mainly "wall hangers" and decorations. My hands and fingers are really too fat for me to do much with 8 strings and that skinny, little neck. But I do love the sound that comes from those instruments in the hands of somebody that knows what they are doing!
Good luck with it and keep picking! Steve
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Post by Admin on Jan 3, 2014 19:05:36 GMT -5
Nice Mandolin Minorkey. I pick a little, and I'll see if I can put together some tips. But the first thing you got to learn to do is how to hold your picking hand. that ain't easy, but let's see if I can google up some pictures. I know you'll be challenging ol' Bill Monroe soon!
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Post by minorkey on Jan 4, 2014 5:19:35 GMT -5
Thanks guys. Need a special shape pick apparently.
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Post by steve on Jan 6, 2014 14:45:54 GMT -5
Nice one- great fun to learn. I had to play some mandolin and borrowed one. It was great fun and at some stage I plan to get me own. Yours looks very pretty.
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Post by celeste on Jan 25, 2014 17:09:09 GMT -5
I think that it would be easier to play if you stand on your head. Seriously, it would take me a bit of doing to figure out how to play something strung upside down. It would be really cool to be able to play one though.
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Post by geezer on Feb 20, 2014 12:25:30 GMT -5
Not as hard as you think, Celeste. Don't think of it as an upside down guitar, but think that it's tuned in fifths, so every scale progression on every string is the same!
The only hard part is getting your fingers going a hundred miles an hour!
Geezer
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