easy warm-up

[billkilpatrick]

might raise an eyebrow or two at your next jam but singing into your mandolin - using its natural note (the one producing the most resonance) - will help warm it up:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUP6mnth3N0

- bill*

[Doug Edwards]

Do you find yourself "becoming one with the mandolin" as well?

[billkilpatrick]

Do you find yourself "becoming one with the mandolin" as well?

... ommmmmmm

[Elliot Luber]

I just put mine in the microwave for about 20 seconds and... (Please don't try this at home).

[R. Kane]

On a similar but unrelated odd habit, I read somewhere (perhaps here on the cafe) a suggestion to breathe into each f hole before putting the mandolin away, as a way to impart a little more humidity, and I've done so every time I've played this winter. I have wondered what the mandolin thinks of this.

[Mike Bunting]

Why not just play the appropriate note on the mando? I try not to put my mando down long enough for it to cool off!

[Elliot Luber]

On a similar but unrelated odd habit, I read somewhere (perhaps here on the cafe) a suggestion to breathe into each f hole before putting the mandolin away, as a way to impart a little more humidity, and I've done so every time I've played this winter. I have wondered what the mandolin thinks of this.

If my breath doesn't crack it, the dryness won't either.