Re: Keeping an A Mandolin in place with rug underlayment
Originally Posted by
Sue Rieter
Right now, I'm using one of those rubber things used to open jars. But it has a tendency to fall on the floor.
Those "things" are available in larger sizes, about the size of a placemat (at Dollarama, in my neck of the woods). I cut one down to about half-size to use with my banjolin. It works better than the jar-opener type, which is to say, it doesn't fall off my lap until I stand up. They seem to last quite a while as well.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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