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<p>[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 1891455, member: 55"]PS, also it needs a nut - not hard to make, but more tricky than a guitar nut, especially if you've never made one, due to the spacing for the double strings, and the small size of the slots. You can probably get commercial mandolin nuts though.</p><p>In any case, a lot of folks would say that mandolin is already a somewhat high-pitched and annoying instrument, and that making a banjo version just adds insult to injury....and I'd have to agree, that of my eight or nine mandolins the banjolin is about the most annoying.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="all_fakes, post: 1891455, member: 55"]PS, also it needs a nut - not hard to make, but more tricky than a guitar nut, especially if you've never made one, due to the spacing for the double strings, and the small size of the slots. You can probably get commercial mandolin nuts though. In any case, a lot of folks would say that mandolin is already a somewhat high-pitched and annoying instrument, and that making a banjo version just adds insult to injury....and I'd have to agree, that of my eight or nine mandolins the banjolin is about the most annoying.[/QUOTE]
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