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Location: Toronto | I was hoping someone might be able to help me out here. I have an Applause mando that I was tinkering with on the weekend - when the damn nut broke. I'm having a hard time finding a replacement locally or even online, so if anyone has any ideas where I can order a couple I would be grateful!
By the way - just a few more hours before I get to tinker with my new (T28's old) 5858 :D
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Check with B&J, your friendly local distributor. Out in Missasauga somewhere. |
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Location: Toronto | Thanks Bill - I sent them an email, generally they send me to a local Long & McQuades. I already checked with them and they weren't too interested in ordering me a couple of nuts (jeez, this sounds bad even typing it!)...
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Location: Toronto | Well I'll be - got a message from B&J this morning and they are sending a nut in the mail (didn't have the guts to ask for 2 nuts!)... |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by MrDano:
Well I'll be - got a message from B&J this morning and they are sending a nut in the mail (didn't have the guts to ask for 2 nuts!)... After 5 minutes of deep inner reflection upon reading this post, I've decided to simply congratulate you on finding the guitar part you needed.
Congratulations.
Now be careful with your new nut. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Glad it worked out. The B&J people are really great. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | I am disappointed, I read this post hoping that the title meant that there was some cure for the "nut" that plays those damn things. Nobody I have found has a solution to my problem of not knowing when to abandon an eight string addiction.
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Location: Keller, TX | Just cut the bottom two off and you'll be set. (Strings, that is) |
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Location: Toronto | There is no cure for the addiction, and I accept all congrats and condolences...
For what it's worth they indeed sent me 2 nuts (US and Import) - one nut fit like a charm and now - I have an extra nut - just in case anyone needs one and a noise making 8 stringer! |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Since we have a few mandoliners on this thread I have a question.
How do you tune a mandocello to turn it into an octave mandolin? Do you have to go with lighter strings? |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Sorry Stephen
Us bluegrass mandolin players have never recognized a mandocello as being part of decent society.
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | But wouldn't tuning it to a octave mandoling allow me to slip into a bluegrass festival and be "low keyed" :D |
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Location: Upper Left USA | That was a rather bass comment.
Are there any artists or recordings out there that feature the Mandocello? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | MandoC is tuned in C in 5ths, C,G,D,A lotohi. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | Thanks CWKII
Note that a mandocello has the same relationship to a mandolin as a bass to a guitar. Also, there have been some recent country hits where a mandocello is featured, due to old age I can't remember their titles, only that I have seen them on CMT.
Yes, playing a mandocello at a bluegrass jam would certainly be "low key", if you could take a round of "Rawhide" in a lower octave you could be certain of a standing Ovation followed by a sitting difficulty because of the boot insertions by Bill Monroe fanatics who seem to always show up in REALLY pointy cowboy boots.
How in hell did a bunch of Kentucky backwoods fans end up in cowboy boots?? I seen that Kentucky country in the 50's and they was wearing Tom McCann work shoes, but what do I know, I was a fan long before those California cowboys when my brother and I roamed the Wheeling, WVA hills. |
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