Mandolin

Today is Queen´s day in The Netherlands and traditionally Queen´s day is celebrated by having big yard sales everywhere. During this I´ve bought an old mandolin(10 euros, including a banjo case that apparently used to belong to te singer of the Tannahill Weavers, of whom I had never heard before today, but it sounded impressive). But now I can´t seem to get the damned thing in tune. I have a keyboard here and I´m trying to tune it to that but I can´t seem to get it to sound right. A contributing factor could be that the strings are at least a decade old, I´ll be replacing those as soon as I can. Does anybody know how I can get that thing in tune and does anyone know where to start learning how to play it, maybe with a website like Dman´s?

lololiet wrote:Today is Queen´s day in The Netherlands and traditionally Queen´s day is celebrated by having big yard sales everywhere. During this I´ve bought an old mandolin(10 euros, including a banjo case that apparently used to belong to te singer of the Tannahill Weavers, of whom I had never heard before today, but it sounded impressive). But now I can´t seem to get the damned thing in tune. I have a keyboard here and I´m trying to tune it to that but I can´t seem to get it to sound right. A contributing factor could be that the strings are at least a decade old, I´ll be replacing those as soon as I can. Does anybody know how I can get that thing in tune and does anyone know where to start learning how to play it, maybe with a website like Dman´s?

Mandolin is easy! No need for sites, really, since you have the basics down from playing bass. Mandolin is like a guitar with strings, old strings are useless. Get new strings asap, luckily, mandolin strings are cheap as (especially compared to bass strings!)

I play mandolin, too! its fun playing around with different tunings, dont restrict yourself!

Pssssh, Mandolin. Ukulele is where it's at.

Kazoo?

Drakon7 wrote:

lololiet wrote:Today is Queen´s day in The Netherlands and traditionally Queen´s day is celebrated by having big yard sales everywhere. During this I´ve bought an old mandolin(10 euros, including a banjo case that apparently used to belong to te singer of the Tannahill Weavers, of whom I had never heard before today, but it sounded impressive). But now I can´t seem to get the damned thing in tune. I have a keyboard here and I´m trying to tune it to that but I can´t seem to get it to sound right. A contributing factor could be that the strings are at least a decade old, I´ll be replacing those as soon as I can. Does anybody know how I can get that thing in tune and does anyone know where to start learning how to play it, maybe with a website like Dman´s?

Mandolin is easy! No need for sites, really, since you have the basics down from playing bass. Mandolin is like a guitar with strings, old strings are useless. Get new strings asap, luckily, mandolin strings are cheap as (especially compared to bass strings!)

I play mandolin, too! its fun playing around with different tunings, dont restrict yourself!

Thanks, I've already ordered some new strings online because right now it goes(even more) out of tune every three bloody chords. But I am going to try looking up the basic chords and a couple of simpler songs, even though we have a guitar around I'm not really used to chord based instruments.

And Kazoos aren't instruments.

lololiet wrote:
And Kazoos aren't instruments.

Right. Kazoos are glorious, godly music-producing entities.

The apocalypse will be heralded by a swarm of almighty Kazoo.

Yeah that's right, I plural'd with a singular. Whatachagonnado?