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My take on mandolins is that once you clear the quality threshold, whatever that is for you, the steep price tag is the mitigating factor. Not to be blowing my own horn, but my goal in building a mandolin was to equal the quality of what I could buy for the same money. With a case, I have $1200 in my home brew. I really exceeded my goal in sound, playability is good, fit and finish, well I finished it clear as a reminder of how humbling an experience building an F style can be. I spent three years playing mandolins from $4000 to $9000. All sounded "better" in that they had more resonance. My adi top got much better over the three years though.
I walked out of the stores every time going, I'm not going to spend a minimum $5k to have the quality I'm hearing, and at my age don't want to wait two years for an Adi top to mellow out. My $1400 Silverangel was equal but different to what I was hearing. It's very close to the sound of an oval. So that has been my mindset for a good long time. That I was thinking of buying A Collings MF if I could find one for $4k, was where my mind was going. So finding my Weber was, purely luck. That it was in a top line shop was even more astounding.
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That F model looks sweet. So awesome to see you find a soulmate instrument and at a great price! Looks like a keeper. I was blessed about 5 years ago to stumble on a mint 5 year old Elkhorn fern F-5 for great price.
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I've never played mandolin but I'm Happy For You, RockaBilly--Enjoy!
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Thank you very much. You should try mandolin, it's a fun instrument and pretty easy to learn to play! And easy to carry around! |
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If you like the Faces, listen to the guitar on this song of mine, I kind of got the Ron Wood feel into it... |
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I'm so glad my then three year old grandson made my buy a mandolin. Opened up a new musical world. Yesterday I started learning a break from a Bill Monroe tune to practice his down stroke style. My Weber just came alive with that aggressive style. Very Gibsonesque. Still, only a Gibson is a Gibson, but Bruce Webber's roots go there.
One thing about mandoline you need to be warned about. Some time, some day, you will learn a fiddle tune, then find it is a Monroe song. Pretty soon you inadvertently learn another, and soon you start playing bluegrass licks. Just sayin'. Many a man has said I won't play bluegrass.
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That was cool! You've captured that "loose but still in the pocket", thing that the Faces, and of course, the Stones did so well. Well done.
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The Brits are great at taping into their folk roots. Zeplin were masters at it, and of course Rod Stewart carried on the Faces tradition.
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I picked up guitar mainly because of the British Invasion, but my reason for learning mandolin is kind of funny... I picked up the mandolin because of a movie I watched with some Italian music in it. It featured a mandolin playing some simple single string melodies. I heard those melodies, liked them, and then realized I could play them back fairly easy on the guitar. I thought why not just buy a mandolin. I just identified with the sound. And like for you, it opened up a new world for me. As for how I play now, I appreciate simple styles of music, with melodies that make me want to sing along with them, like the mandolin in Rod Stewart's Maggie May. I write my melodies by singing them first. A lot of this may be due to my limited skill as a musician, but fast and or overly complicated melodies, such as found in many jazz and bluegrass songs just don't resonate with me. |
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"Loose, But Still In The Pocket" I couldn't have described it any better. If you asked me what band is my favorite. From day to day, it would go back and forth between The Mick Taylor Era Stones, and The Faces. As a matter of fact, the first song that I thought I could adapt to the sound of my Gibson mandolin was "Love In Vain" because of the Stones version.
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Actually, my grandson, knowing what was what, told my wife I had to buy a mandolin. Never was there such a slam dunk. Had to swear I didn't put him up to it.
Go learn fiddle tunes. Not all of them are complicated. But some of the tunes I learned before I knew who wrote them turned out to be Bill Monroe penned. Anyway, a great mandolin makes for a lot of enjoyment.
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BTW I have learned some fiddle tunes, just not Bluegrass style |
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I had resigned myself to buying an F 9 if I could find a used one. So there I was with a maybe I'll never do it when I ran into my Weber, a brand I'd rarely liked enough to chance a Reverb sale. But picked it up, and it was an equal but different thing. Ir will certainly do, and the fern inlay makes up a lot for not having Gibson on the headstock, oh well...... I'll have to survive.
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