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I don't know, frankly. It's a reasonable conjecture, but when I asked a similar question (of people with more experience than I), all I got was "maybe". The only consensus was that longer scale had...

Along with sustain and string tension differences based on scale, I've experienced a marked difference in the amount of near string resonance between designs of even the same luthier -- Weber in this...

Assuming the setup is not at fault, as another post mentioned ...

Having had a similar experience coming to mandolin, and now unlearning the habit of pressing harder (than for a guitar) after...

I don't think so (the OM is a Yellowstone A with the smaller headstock), and I am using a strap (button on the heel of the neck). I admit that I am still finding the place for the OM body between my...

;) Well, it's not really a death grip just more pressure than needed to sound the note on the OM.

Having just moved to an OM from mandolin playing, I'm finding two problems folks here might have insights into:

1) Relaxing the death grip: My mando-tuned left hand is ready to apply the force...

Cool. Thanks for the pointer.

Thank you!

... attached is an OM demo song from The Mandolin Store ... anyone able to name that tune? A pointer to music would be nice, but I presume that with the name The Session or another site will have it....

FWIW ... I've always heard that a viola scale length (mandola) is a sort of a "tweener" instrument as discussed here. Having never played one, I'll have to defer to the better informed (and those...

My cats seem to like to lick the ribbon that restrains the lid, and love to jump into any new space, though pee is left for that sandy areas (which are mando-free). but that's enough to convince me:...

Originally I'd sloppily said "I'm not in the 13" scale market", which rightfully deserved a correction. :grin:

No financial interest or knowledge, and no bidding interest as I'm not in the 13 15/16" scale market, but people occasionally ask for "Where can I find a cheap/good starter sub-$1000 mandolin?", and...

I concur that more data is always better, when attempting to establish trust. No digital information is adequate, however. It's all just an indication. Much of the debate centers around the...

It is better to have mandolined trashy music, than to not have mandolined at all ...

... as long as one is polite about it, of course. :)

There's a nice KM-172 (oval hole, however) in the Classifieds right now for $300 with a case ... NFI ... just saying there's not a lot of downside there for a first mandolin.

I've been working at it for a year, though I learned to read music back in high school. The recommendations I read here were very helpful. My latest book is "The Complete Mandolinist" by by Marilynn...

;) Well, c'mon, it's Isaac Stern, after all. I mean, he's no Jasha Heifetz, but it's certainly not chopped liver. :))

One of these in a 20 inch scale, perhaps in blond/amber with black binding. I've no clue how to go about it though, without simply ordering one as a custom build, and selling it in the Classifieds if...

I guess this might fit best in the Builders section, but from the perspective of a player who has never seen the internals of the build process, these were very interesting and I would have liked to...

Thanks for the feedback. I'll have to listen harder to other tunes ... it's probably there too.

I was working my way through the B portion of "The Blarney Pilgrim" (score attached) when I noticed my mandolin was sort of humming along. It got strongest about the 5th measure (in the B section)...

Ditto. Perhaps I've merely outed myself as a noob. :(

Weber Maverick, seems like some sort of maverick, certainly.

Not everywhere -- see here. :grin:

Seriously, Amazon probably ain't plugged in to the extent Elderly is ... though it's sort of an odd coincidence that Amazon's image seems to be the same one...