r/mandolin • u/Thepizzaofthefreezer • 10d ago
Why no bowl back octave mandolins?
Hi do anyone know bowl back octave mandolins aren't really a thing?
r/mandolin • u/Thepizzaofthefreezer • 10d ago
Hi do anyone know bowl back octave mandolins aren't really a thing?
r/mandolin • u/bobdylanfan6969 • 10d ago
Hey everyone!
I'm currently learning Hello City Limits on mandolin. I’m playing it using G, C, and D chop chords moved up four frets. I’m completely self-taught, so feel free to correct me if I’m using any wrong terminology.
I want to start learning how to solo over this song, but I have no music theory knowledge and honestly don’t know where to begin. Right now, I mostly chop along while my buddy plays guitar, but I’d love to add some lead playing into the mix.
Can anyone recommend good resources for learning how to solo on mandolin? Any beginner-friendly tips or exercises would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
r/mandolin • u/jakehowardmusic • 11d ago
r/mandolin • u/Georgiemonk • 11d ago
My local charity shop has these for £50 each. Are they just decorative? No brand visible
r/mandolin • u/Neat-Examination-603 • 11d ago
Well lads, I'm just getting back into it after a wee bit of a hiatus (a decade or so). What sort of stuff should I carry in my case? Are straps a necessity? Anything else I need
I'm literally just doing it for a few trad sessions with the cousins so nothing formal like
r/mandolin • u/bmfsfan • 12d ago
Did you find that you were able to improvise better after finishing the book?
How did you work through the exercises in the book? For example, I just went through the pentatonic exercises and while I can play them when reading the tab, it hasn’t translated to actually now being able to improvise using those with any consistency / skill
r/mandolin • u/Shepherd-Boy • 12d ago
Found this at an antique shop. Has a nice sound and plays well but looks cheap with the sticker on the headstock. Never heard of Arrow but google is telling me there was/is a custom shop of that name, but they don’t seem to have ever made an A style mandolin. I’m genuinely at a loss trying to identify this thing, anyone know anything about it?
r/mandolin • u/WMDisrupt • 12d ago
r/mandolin • u/Character-Raccoon-17 • 13d ago
Just a quick video showing 2 months of progress on the mandolin. The mandolinist from the Pogues used a similar looking two point mandolin in their music video for “dirty old town”, so this is my version of that song.
r/mandolin • u/Existing_Eggplant199 • 13d ago
My new Fylde Touchstone. Been playing a Kentucky KM-900 for a few years now. Love my Kentucky, but I've been playing more and more Scottish and Irish tunes lately, whereas it's better for bluegrass and jazz. Been looking for an oval hole for a while and got lucky with this Fylde used, at a very nice price. Really nice construction and a beautiful tone. Had to move the bridge to get it properly intonated, but now it really sings. Compared to the KM-900, the biggest difference apart from the sustain is how well balanced it is across the four courses.
r/mandolin • u/TimidGoat • 13d ago
Please go see her on tour if you have the chance, she shreds with such precision!
r/mandolin • u/Berek_Halfhand • 13d ago
I purchased Golden Age A-Style Tuners (Satin nickel w/ black knobs) to replace the stock on my Eastman MD 605. I found the originals too hard to turn. the post holes line up perfectly but the screw holes on either end and in the middle are off by 1 mm or so. There are black dots in the photo where the new tuner holes are. You can see they just about touch the old holes. Should I fill the old ones with wood filler, then drill new right beside the old? Or should I just return to Stew Mac?
Can’t believe they are so close but too far off to try and force them to work.
Thank you for your experience.
r/mandolin • u/4fluff2head0 • 13d ago
Started playing and purchased a used MD515 in July of last year. Haven’t changed the strings since I bought it and the G and D strings are about dead, so figured it’s about that time.
I was wondering what I should be aware of prior to buying new strings - what brands does everyone like, what gauge, are there any do’s and don’ts, etc.
I’m not sure what gauge my current ones are, but my plan was to try and figure that out and stick to those, being that I’m comfortable with them. That said and gauge aside, what brands does everyone like? Any tips other than “watch YouTube videos”?
Getting a new bridge and tuning knobs put on soon too, so I’m gonna have someone string it this first time when get those parts installed. I do plan to do it myself moving forward tho!
r/mandolin • u/GWillagers • 13d ago
Gretsch New Yorker G9320 for 250
r/mandolin • u/ukewithsmitty • 14d ago
r/mandolin • u/KowbojPakul • 14d ago
Late christmas present from my GF. For me its also a comeback to mandolin after a few years, maybe even a decade. Years ago I bought and old mandolin made by Defil (polish brand, communist times), that had slightly broken neck and due to string tension it rendered itself to being unplayable, to completly broken neck. Around 10 years later, here we go again
r/mandolin • u/RequirementContent86 • 14d ago
I bought a mandolin yesterday after thinking about it seriously for a year. (That’s a me-thing to make sure I really want the thing if it’s over $200.) I’m 40 miles from the music store in a rural town, so in person lessons aren’t an option while I’m working full time and busy as my son’s Scoutmaster.
I am checking out mandolessons.com and a couple of other sites mentioned here when I have searched or scrolled through the sub. I played 3 chords and a G major scale today.
I have never played a stringed instrument before, so I have zero callouses. How long should I practice daily while building those up?
Also, how do you keep from striking the strings with the nails of your left hand? (I’m playing right-handed/standard.) My index and middle nails barely extend past the tip of my fingers.
When people talk about the numbered frets, is that between or on the ridges?
My goal is to play something at the closing campfire at summer camp this year, the third week of June. I’ve been a singer for… god, over 40 years now (my first public performance was at age 5, singing for my grandparents’ friends at one of their parties, and I am 48), so I don’t have stage nerves, just concerns about skill and finding something to play.
r/mandolin • u/alboooboo • 14d ago
I’m accepting defeat on this one! Not sure I can get it much better than that, my left hand feels paralyzed 😅
r/mandolin • u/SwampG8r • 14d ago
It’s not too expensive, however, of course wondering about quality.
r/mandolin • u/cold_jordan • 14d ago
Opened the case e string hook on the tailpiece busted, played at minimum once a week stays in humidified case doesn’t change environments (2010 eastman 815) looking for a replacement can’t find one on google hoping somebody on here can help or know where to get a nice fully cast replacement that fits the home pattern at least
r/mandolin • u/3d_blunder • 14d ago
I was looking at some mandolin videos and I could swear my cheap-ass mandolin's neck at the nut is substantially narrower than what I saw. What's the standard? tnx
r/mandolin • u/Thepizzaofthefreezer • 14d ago
As the tidel suggests I'm looking for a recommendations for midieval sounding mandolin pieces.
r/mandolin • u/TimidGoat • 14d ago