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    Was reading the epic thread on truss rid adjustment when mystikpckin (spelling) declared that a mandolin was male. I think both of mine are.

    What about yours? Male or female?

    Or something else?
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    I guess it's what you prefer.Me,I'd rather play and caress a female than a male.

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    When I play it, its neutered.
    No matter where I go, there I am...Unless I'm running a little late.

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    Mine is a female and her name is Pearl.
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    Mine's female. She's got curves in all the right places. My wife actually named my mandolin Jolene, because she's my "other woman".

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    Only banjos have genders, depending on playing posture: ♀ ♂
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    Isabella has all the right curves and she makes me very happy, just don't tell my wife.

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    Never spent too much time thinking about whether she is male or female...

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    If it makes a lot of noise when you play, it's a female
    Even when I hold it without playing, it looks so sweet and beautiful, definitely a female to me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bauzl View Post
    Never spent too much time thinking about whether she is male or female...

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    I love my mandolins, but have never felt the need to name them (other than the Duff, the BRW etc.). Not male nor female either. To me that is creepy. It all started when I was in college and I was playing guitar with a guy. He offered to let me play his "Angie" (a nice Gibson Blonde Jumbo). But he would not play my Martin (brand, not my name for the guitar), because that would be "cheating" on Angie. He was totally serious, and I was totally creeped out. Cars and boats and instruments are things to me.
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    Guitars and traditional bowlback and European flatback mandolins are female.

    I'm not so sure about the Gibson mandolins, they seem to have had some steroid and hormone treatments!

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    Do pianos and tubas have gender?
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    A mandolin is a superior species! It speaks in a language beyond our own, and it has no need of base humanly concepts, like gender. There is no more need to attribute a gender to a mandolin than gender to a god. I'm just a man, but my mandolin surpasses gender.

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    I don't know, but it wears a G-string

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    Look at the curves, then tell me.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Tobin View Post
    Mine's female. She's got curves in all the right places. My wife actually named my mandolin Jolene, because she's my "other woman".
    Does your strap make her look too fat??

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    Mine is a Mann...with two points..one nut...uh..it's complicated

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    Ummm ... Shouldn't that be "Mine are Manns?" Or "Mine are Mann's?" Yeah, it's complicated.
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    It doesn't matter what gender it is. I ain't gettin' none from it, either way. I might as well be celibate. Then again, I suppose "preference" means which gender you would choose to get none from ...

    OK, they're female. I took my cue from BB King and his "Lucille." My first one, a Gibson A model with pumpkin finish came and went before I'd heard his song about this, so she, or it, has passed into the void, nameless, wandering in limbo. Then there was "Mandy Lynn," full name "Amanda Lynn," my late lamented F-12, companion for thirty years, stolen from me in broad daylight in 2007. This was replaced by "Mindy Lynn," a 1940s (I think) A-00 I acquired from Mindy Jostyn's widower. Not only was it just hanging on the wall, but I had found it for her when she was looking for a mandolin to add to her arsenal. So there was a sort of karmic circle being closed there. Her flat back had two long cracks, so she didn't sound that great, but she got me through with my seasonal Cajun-country-bluegrass band, in which she didn't sound out of place. But I wasn't completely satisfied with her. She sounded a bit thin, and just didn't resonate, nor resonate with me. But I'm grateful she came along when she did. She really helped me out of a tight spot, and provided me with a couple of great stories - this one, and the one I'm sparing you all from at this time (though you'll find it if you search on her name here).

    While keeping an eye on eBay for Mandy Lynn, I picked up a couple of MandoBirds, and also bid on several Gibson A models until I finally got one. She arrived at the music store downtown, and she sounded so good right out of the box, so much better than Mindy Lynn, even with the old strings on her, that I literally walked her over to the place where we were playing the last gig of the season that evening and put her right to work. She didn't really have a name for a few years. I was not going to call her "Mandy Lynn II"; I wanted her to have her own name, in her own right. Then one night after a show, fielding the question "What do you call your instrument?" for the umpty-leventh time, I said "Molly." The funny thing is, I don't even remember saying this, but the pedal steel player heard it and just cracked up, and told me about it later. So the name stuck. I have since picked up another similar mandolin, which I got in order to be able to swap out after breaking a string - it was happening a lot at the time - but I haven't named her yet. I'm not going to call her "Molly II" or "Millie" or "Mali" - nothing has occurred to me yet. I refer to her as "my other one" or "the spare" for the time being. I know she's female though. Something in the way she moves ...

    Funny thing in all this I've never named any of my electrics: neither MandoBird, nor the Ryder (though I toyed with "Ezy", an homage to one of my favorite later Hendrix songs, "Ezy Rider"), nor my first one, a Gibson EM-150. I tend to call them "my electric," which is neutral. I think this may be because acoustics move air, or breathe, and so are alive, while electrics move electrons, and so are inert.
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    I whip mine like a mule so prefer to think of it as an inanimate object.

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    Truss Rod sound like a Hernia repair .

    Those without truss rods would be asexual and able to use either bathroom?
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    Quote Originally Posted by mandroid View Post
    Truss Rod sound like a Hernia repair .

    Those without truss rods would be asexual and able to use either bathroom?
    What about the ones that have had their Floridas removed?

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