Mandolin

[57Gregy]

My friend Jami bought a cheap mandolin a few months back. It's been sitting in its gig bag since then.
I was over there today and she asked if I could remove the packing and tune it for her. I've never played one before so with the help of the included teaching books and Google I found a G note on the phone to help me tune it. She had no other instruments in the house and I don't have perfect pitch (some might say I don't have any pitch ?) so thank goodness we live in the 21st century.
First I had to loosen all of the strings to lift the bridge off a little piece of styrofoam between it and the body, then tighten them again to tune them.
Within a few minutes I was playing the chords from the  book.
I learned my fingers are way too big for the mandolin.
I hope she enjoys it while she is (still) recovering.

[Bapu]

Good friend you are Greg. ?

[craigb]

Way to go Greg! ??

I had a really cool mandolin for awhile which was fun to play while I was sitting and watching TV.

My fingers are also too large for these too, so I simply used some basic chords.  Here's a few images:

Enjoy! ?

 

[Bapu]

12 hours ago, craigb said:

 

Enjoy

I've never heard that song "Mandolin Chords" but it looks like it would be difficult to memorize (and maybe even play depending on tempo).

[craigb]

11 hours ago, Bapu said:

I've never heard that song "Mandolin Chords" but it looks like it would be difficult to memorize (and maybe even play depending on tempo).

Just t**t it up to Am! ?

[telecode 101]

Madolin's are great. I have a few.  Look up Sam Bush from New Grass Revival. He takes the art of mandolin to a whole new level.

[Starise]

I have thought about taking up mandolin since the fingerings are the same as violin.

So far I haven't because there's this thing called time I can't seem to find.