Hey all, just got this fella in today, and lemme just say, I finally get it. I see why you guys love mandos so dang much! (Lengthy word salad follows this, you don't need to read if you don't want.)
For the ten or so years I played guitar, I did not understand why people loved mandolin so much. I was ignorant, and mostly thought 'most of the sounds they get, I can probably get with my guitar capoed up' or 'man those look uncomfortable to play!'. I was misguided, both by myself and by simply not enough exposure to mandolin. When I first found Irish Trad music, the stirrings of 'hey, mandolins sounds awesome and I need to have one (or several)' started in my head, and so I bought a bouzouki. But that did not scratch the itch. So, after both posting on here, and doing copious amounts of research and thinking, I acquired this 1935 Martin A-style mando, and HOLYY COWW it's like something inside me has been freed! My fingers feel at home more on the mando than they do on guitar, and the tight, punchy sound of the notes is just heavenly! How could I have been so foolish and so self-decieved?! As an aside, the action is great, frets are too, no structural issues, etc etc. The pictures attached are from the Reverb sale, as I do not currently have a camera. I hope you all will forgive the super-long rambling; it really feels like a new musical chapter has begun, and I owe a good deal of it to you fellas at this forum!
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