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Location: closely held secret | I seem to have acquired an MM-68 (something I've wanted for a while).
Not having owned a mando before, I'm looking for string recommendations, preferably from MM68 owners, as I'm sure that like guitars, brands/models of mandolins respond differently to different strings.
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Eww, Daddy, this tastes like Gramma!
nice acquisition.
I hadn't realized they had a bolted bridge... |
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Location: closely held secret | Thank you for that valuable observation, Jeff. Not quite what I was looking for, but it certainly gives us some insight as to your childhood. |
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Location: NJ | i have the adamas ones in stock |
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Location: NJ | GoodGett, Wabbitt!!!
I wanna get me one o'those! . . . |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Nice....I sometimes still regret selling my MM-68 but the Davy Stuart serves me well |
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Location: Cicero, NY | Yeah, they sound great. At last year's Tour, TRBoy was playing one in the factory and he was just going to town on it. Great stuff. Never even considered one for me but, after he got done, you know I wanted one. Enjoy it, Waskel. |
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Location: Lebanon, TN | The Adamas Mando strings are pretty nice, bright and ringy.
If you want something a little different the other brand I love are Thomastik flat wounds. They are stainless steel and flat wound so kind to sliding fingerstips. Very even and mellow but pretty expensive in comparison. That however is oftset by the fact that they are Stainless steel soo last a long long time.
I picked up on them from JazzMando and you can buy them in a number of places online.
Finding ball end strings can be a challenge. I did buy a couple of sets of loop end a few years back by accident. I saved balls ends from used guitar strings and then placed them in the loop ends and squeezed the loop with pliers to make them hold long enough to thread onto the bridge. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I use the adamas mando strings. |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | This came from Stuart Miller who until recently owned two MM68s:
Also the strings that are on there are a wonderful flatwound version that makes the tone very smooth and easy on the fingers. They are expensive but being stainless steel last a long time. They are a nice alternative to the Ovation Ball end ones.
Thomastik Web Site
I haven't changed the strings on mine yet (nor am I looking forward to it), but I will try those strings when I do.
I'm having fun with mine - good get! |
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Location: Lebanon, TN | Originally posted by CrimsonLake:
This came from Stuart Miller who until recently owned two MM68s:
Also the strings that are on there are a wonderful flatwound version that makes the tone very smooth and easy on the fingers. They are expensive but being stainless steel last a long time. They are a nice alternative to the Ovation Ball end ones.
Thomastik Web Site
I haven't changed the strings on mine yet (nor am I looking forward to it), but I will try those strings when I do.
I'm having fun with mine - good get! |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I'm bringing mine to Florida next weekend for TRBoy to go to town on. |
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Location: closely held secret | Thanks for the good suggestions, and yes, I plan to enjoy it!. Maybe I'll start with Adamas or D'Add and save my pennies for some Thomastics. I used to use their guitar strings but they're price has gone up more than the rest of the pack, so I stopped buying them.
I notice string sets seem to vary as far as gauge (11-40, 10-38, 11-41). Any guidelines? |
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Location: NJ | The thicker ones are closest to you . . . the thinner ones, farther away . . . |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | :D |
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Location: closely held secret | I thought there was something wrong... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I just always went with the Adamas strings cause you have to have the ball ends. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Originally posted by Mauvais Beal:
I just always went with the Adamas strings cause you have to have the ball ends. Not true, sir. I've used loopers on my Ovation mando. I have a small aluminum piece of rod about 2 inches by 1/8 inch. You fit it through all the loops and then it secures the loops and "seats" in the groove on the ass end of the bridge. I should patent the damn thing. Only problem is if you break a string you have to loosen all of them and back out the rod and unloop. And it's always the 4th or 5th strings that break, isn't it.
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