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I managed to teach myself but took up guitar a while later and realised I enjoyed it more. Sold the mandolin as it wasn’t getting played.
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Good for practicing your trem picking.
Surprisingly easy to play 'The Battle of Evermore' on :-D
The Eastman at guitar guitar looks like the main contender.
https://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/product/px201023363271004--eastman-md505-pre-owned
..... although I made the mistake of looking at some Collings and Weber mandos... oof
Lovely instrument. My brother in law's family run an antique shop and they had an italian one that they got me to string up (not a pleasant job stringing a mandolin) and get into working order, which was fun. Here's a video of me bashing it out when it was ready:
https://www.facebook.com/matthewettham/videos/10153057217634807
I spent some time working the nut and bridge to get the action really easy but you will adjust quick.
Mine is acoustic but I have piezo under-saddle pickup to install soon.
I play an Eastman A 804 that I’ve had since about 2005. It has a dead flat fingerboard, which can be a bit of a struggle sometimes. I only found out later that radiused boards are available, which might be a bit easier all round, even if purists might not agree. Something to consider?
What I found was it’s easier if you don’t force yourself to play full chords the whole time. Partial chords and double stops with little runs in between can get you a long way.
https://youtu.be/zMmri3xkLb8
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For chords you can basically use guitar chords upside down to get started.
I'm procrastinating quite a bit as usual, but most likely going for an Eastman.
If you can get to a Hobgoblin Music store, they usually have dozens.
The first string instruments I had axis to at my grandparents and my mothers.
They were beautiful works of art with mother of Pearl inlays on the body and necks.
The bowl backs were built from layers and layers of wooden strips all hand crafted to form.
Some were bigger than others and gave different tones.
They were all hand built before WW2 and brought to the UK after from Holland.
They went missing after my grandparents and mother died in the 70s and 80s.
Ive still not found any that come close to the sounds they used to make So haven’t really bothered with a acoustic mandolin since then.
I have one of these electric mandolins I bought a while back for a bit of fun.
It was around £79 when I bought it .
Just looked on Thomann and it’s now £99 which is still a good price for what it does.
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To quote in Latin ,
Buyer Beware.