Re: Best budget mandolin UK
Originally Posted by
Jillity
It needs to cut through this lot! Accordions, fiddles, guitar, recorder. Something with a spruce top would be good. Is the Ozark 2001 any good?
Have you considered a tuba rather than a mandolin? Seriously though, you'll have to have fine hearing to pick out the sound of your mandolin with five or more accordions, at least two fiddles, and, I'm assuming, more guitars than I can see in the same room. I wear hearing aids, and if I walked into that session, I wouldn't take my mandolin out of the case.
p.s., I don't know how I happened to be fiddling in a photo of a session in Cornwall? Is that where I go when I'm asleep? Well, I do have Cornish ancestors -- a distant cousin perhaps? (My hair's turned more white than grey since this photo was taken.)
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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