Re: Help: Looking To Buy My First Mandolin
Originally Posted by
yankees1
For your first mandolin .... just in case you don't stay with it !
Perfect is the enemy of good enough.
My first mandolin was about $100 and lasted me a year and a half, before I knew I needed a real mandolin. My second mandolin cost about $600 and lasted more than 8 years, before I realized that not all the issues with tone were my fingers.
Honestly, I would be trying to minimize cost. Given your wants, I would go with that Bitterroot or maybe this
Weber Gallatin in classifieds
Despite being lower in cost than the Awesome mandolins being suggested, they are likely better players than what I was gigging with last summer.
What I play
2021 Skip Kelley Two-Point
Eastwood 'Ricky'
Morgan Monroe RT-1E
Epiphone Genesis guitars
Various Basses
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