I'll second that.

I had the the good fortune of seeing Rory play 3X in the early '80s and the even better fortune to have shot the breeze with him over a couple of beers after a show in St. Louis.

Of course there's a million other great mando songs but that was the first time a mandolin really got my attention... ...like getting hit by a train!

Cheers,

n.

I never got the urge to try a mandolin, but have an old (I guess it's vintage now) National lap steel that's fun to noodle with.

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I started playing mandolin 7 years ago. My grandmother gave me her dad's 1930s Supertone A style. I don't have a pic of it right now. I'll post one later. Here's my other mandolin. Appropriate for the Fender forum. I got it on sale through Musiciansfriend for $350 (marketed down from $529)

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Live guitars: 2009 LTD Truckster, 1989 Strat Plus, 2001 Am Standard Strat, 1996 MIJ Jaguar, 2007 Gibson Explorer 76 reissue, 1999 Ibanez RG7621, LTD MH-301, LTD FM400, 1999 Jackson Kelly, Mystery Les Paul, Hamer Chaparel, Fender FM 62SCE A/E Mandolin

I have one that i bought from a Portuguese Guitar builder, it's made in (i don't know the english names for the woods)

Body Carvalho (oak tree?)
Top Feixo
and scale in Pau de Santo (a brazilian heavy wood)

it's quite impressive for it's cost (230euros), and i mean quite... it's kinda subjective, but it beats any gibson i've tried out, much wider and brighter sound. The only thing is the scale, that is a lot harder to touch, but as I said, i love it, and this my opinion... Have it made!

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Odd topic timing...

...'recently felt need to find late wife's mandolin (1979 or so Ibanez copy of a Gibson F-5, really nice instrument actually; she also played orchestral violin) and 'cleaned and tuned it. Poor thing has been languishing in its case for 20 years.

Anyway, knowing nothing of the instrument except tuning, 'have been idly picking at it with a pitiful modicum of success.

Enjoy, fellow guitar-mandolin-pickers.

I finally got around to taking pics.

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I didn't Lose my mind, I traded it for this guitar.

Good on you, Chet and fellow mandolin-dilettantes.

Try picking "Washington Square," by the Village Stompes, a late 60s folk thing, just made for mandolin.