My boyfriend is currently deployed in Afghanistan and wants me to send him a mandolin. There isn’t much to do during their down time and he wants to learn to play. I need some advice. While it doesn’t get terribly hot in the region he lives, it is very dry and will get extremely cold this winter. What would you recommend as a good mandolin for a beginner and what will he need besides the instrument?
Thanks for your help!
Ashley
A Mandolin and case can be purchased on line, a tuner, some picks, and if he has a laptop he can either take lessons on line or you can purchase books off the internet. Pretty easy to get him set up really. Yer a nice girl to do that for him, very sweet :flower
your also going to need a few sets of strings…I’m sure ther are not a lot of music stores there…
I’d recommend a Mid-Mo mando. They’re out of business now - but not usually too hard to find used ones. They pop up frequently on Craigslist, Mandolincafe & ebay. I often see them in the $350-$400 range. They are solid wood and sound great.
Is he interested in a certain type of music?
Thanks for all the replies!!! He really likes bluegrass.