I've seen similar threads on guitar forums.
I've never named my instruments anything other than functional names, like:
(keeping it to mandolins)
the Vietnamese mandolin
the Greek (Sakis) bowlback mandolin, aka the "other bowlback".
the cheap Kay archtop
the vintage "Carl Fischer" bowlback
the Cümbüs, mandolin
My wife uses terms like:
the old mandolin
the "yellow" (natural?) mandolin
and so on
One of my mandolin is made by Audie Ratliff so I call it"The Rat", two other s are called "Oscar and Roscoe"...a lot of times I call them with three initials.....an S and O and a B, I do that when they don`t sound up to par...
I have one named "Crusher" and another named "Hoss". My campfire beater is sometimes called "Ms. Griffith" by some people, but I just call it my campfire mandolin.
My Gibson is called "the Gibson" my Givens is called "the Givens" my old Lyon and Healey Washburn is called the "Washburn" I also have a mandolin called "the Vietnamese mandolin" wow what a coincidence!
I have one I call "Little Buddy", it seems a natural epithet for it since I take him just about anywhere to keep me company when I have a spare minute or two . . . can't help but think of Gilligan, though, when I call the mandolin Little Buddy
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Hey Barney! What kind of Givens do you have?
Hey Mark,
Isn't it the best feeling to have a mandolin with just about you everywhere you go? It's true I find myself reaching for that instead of myself phone when I have those moments through the day. Like I was waiting at VW for an oil change and so I pulled out my mando "Jaws". Everyone else in the waiting room was on a cell phone. They looked at me like I was an alien.
I only have one... so I call it "my Mandolin"
aka: Spencer
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"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
Fan-"What do you call that instrument you're playing?"
Jethro-"I call it Bruce."
"it's not in bad taste, if it's funny" - john waters
Gibson, Michael Kelly and Suzuki. Imaginative.
-- Don
more ideas here.
As I said back then:
There is Floyd, and Lloyd, and Merle; and then there is Kyle and Lyle and Earl, and then Connie, and Bonnie, and Pearl. Then there is a tenor guitar named Andrew Jackson, and a tenor banjo named Daniel Webster, and a fiddle named Wille. Oh, and the ukulele banjo, named Pip.
Nah. I'm kidding. I don't name them.
I had a small piano accordion once, named Irene. Someone had glued mailbox lettering on the front - thats how I knew her name.
It depends what mood i'm in after i've stuck my thumb several times while re-stringing !!!,
Ivan
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
The name I give to mine depends on how well my practicing is going!!!
I never fail at anything, I just succeed at doing things that never work....
Fylde Touchstone Walnut Mandolin.
Gibson Alrite Model D.
I can never sell one after I've named it ... and they all have names. I usually use female names related to the builder, struggling with the Dudenbostel, I call her "the Dude" most the time, but keeping a mind to a more feminine name, which means she's not officially named yet ... The point is, for me, they gotta have names, gives them personality and character.
June and Thor
I call my mandolin "Bear" and my acoustic guitar "Eleanor". The first instrument I ever played was given to me to by my uncle and it had the name of "Maggie J" so I couldn't call it anything different. It also instilled in me that my instruments must be personified otherwise they are soulless.....
Andy McAllister
'08 Michael Kelly Legacy Elegante'
'09 Epiphone EJ 200-CE
I have 3:
"My good one" (Fullerton Gloucester)
"my Breedlove" (Crossover)
"my electric" ( Eastwood mandocaster)
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I like to give my mandolins pretty names, but my lovely girlfriend calls my mandolin "Chicken" and unfortunately it has stuck...Chicken Nugget...
Isabella, after Isabella Rossellini. Why you say, because they both have great curves. That's why.
"Bill" because it's a Collings.
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I had the builder inlay the name into the headstock. It says "Breedlove". Cost a little more, but it was worth it.
Ray Dearstone #009 D1A (1999)
Skip Kelley #063 Offset Two Point (2017)
Arches #9 A Style (2005)
Bourgeois M5A (2022)
Hohner and Seydel Harmonicas (various keys)
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