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Location: Converse, Texas | This is for all of you guitar and mandolin players: Do you sling your mandolin low like you hang your guitar when you play, or do you have your mandolin at chest level? It seems to me that many guitarists who ALSO play mandolin carry their mando at stomach level, whereas non-guitarists who play mandolin sling it at chest level. |
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Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma | I guess I strap it on me like a mando... alittle higher on me because I've got to be more precise because of the big hands little neck thing...
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Location: Toronto | I too tend to keep it a little higher than guitar level. I find that to be the only way to keep the mando steady while I flail away at the strings!!! |
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | Likewise, a little higher than a guitar...
I have a nice leather strap for it with different holes for different heights - not the typical adjust to any level like a guitar strap. So I got used to a particular "setting" for the strap.
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Location: Converse, Texas | The reason I am asking is that I saw an artist on CMT over the weekend. His guitarist strapped on a mando belly level. I just can't play it that way. Anyway, I asked around at a couple of guitar shops around here and it seemed that most of the guitarists slung it at belly level.
BTW... Rod Stewart's very beautiful USA-made Ovation straps it ... um ... high shall we say... ANd she is also his violin player. |
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