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    Default Marlon Brando playing a mandolin!

    Photo was taken on the set of The Godfather.

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    Default Re: Marlon Brando playing a mandolin!

    Brando also played a little bit of mandolin in The Missouri Breaks. He was taught some chords by Dennis Quaid:
    https://ew.com/article/2016/01/21/de...rando-fanuary/
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    Default Re: Marlon Brando playing a mandolin!

    Is it a STELLLLLLAAAAA ???
    "The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
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    Default Re: Marlon Brando playing a mandolin!

    Brando on Mando?!! Brandolin??!!

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    Default Re: Marlon Brando playing a mandolin!

    Quote Originally Posted by jaycat View Post
    Is it a STELLLLLLAAAAA ???
    Ha! That would be perfect. But I think it's actually a Martin Style 2-15.

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    Default Re: Marlon Brando playing a mandolin!

    Quote Originally Posted by jaycat View Post
    Is it a STELLLLLLAAAAA ???
    Good joke.
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    Default Re: Marlon Brando playing a mandolin!

    Pretty hard to see -- it's a nighttime campfire scene -- but here's Brando with a mandolin in Missouri Breaks.

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