When you're a guitar strummer, that's how your right hand operates, without even thinking about it. So it's natural enough that they start playing it that way.

A lot of people, upon finding out what that weird little guitar is, will ask to hear "Mandolin Wind". I can't say how many times I've disappointed them by explaining that it's not a mandolin tune...same goes for "This Old Mandolin", one of my totally favourite songs.

W=O