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Okay, sure this has been beat to death. Here's the scoop in a nutshell:

I'm really a guitar player. Been playing most of my life, all different sorts of music, but 95% acoustic (folk, bluegrass,...

Thanks folks!

I was figuring a headstock tie of sorts would be the solution, but I wasn't certain and couldn't find any pictures online clear enough to answer my question.

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Okay, now it's more than a little bit obvious that I'm totally new to the mandolin thing...

Anyways, I've been making good progress with my recently acquired MT. Our band at church (for which I...

Wow. You folks are so helpful. Thanks so much for all of the insight. I'm making more progress now, and I'm getting comfortable with a variety of these shapes.

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Thanks for being tolerant of my newbie sorts of questions over the past weeks. I'm having a great time with my MT & slowly (but surely) making some progress.

So, question for the day...

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Just getting into this mando thing after many years with the guitar. Really enjoying the heck out of it so far.

So, when I play my guitar, I do what I can to maintain "proper"...

Well, this is kind of interesting...

I just bought an MT (my first real mandolin). I was told it was used, though it sure doesn't look it. Anyways, I picked it up a week ago, and it is number...

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Thanks so much for all of the input. I played many different instruments over the past couple of weeks. I happened to be down in Birmingham over the latter part of the holidays and...

Thanks. I sort of suspected that might be the case, that the f holes would be somewhat more versatile.

Okay - another question - is there generally thought to be any perceptable tonal difference...

Check out Dan Landrum's "Winter Mix":

http://cdbaby.com/cd/landrum4

Not quite bluegrass, but not quite your normal "pop" stuff either.

If you don't know Dan, he's one of the top hammered...

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Thanks for all the good input here. Just got back from the only good local mandolin shop in town. I played several of the Eastmans and a couple of MKs. I was particularly drawn to an...

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New to the board here, so please forgive my ignorance. Here's the deal: I've played guitar since I was about 8 years old (36 now). Music includes a little bluegrass, lots of solo...