+1 for Jake Wildwood, a Cafe member and occasional poster. He has a fine sense of instruments' inherent value, and takes on some work just to get an...
Admittedly, a few REALLY expensive instruments were in a cabinet. But that did NOT include the $40,000 D'Angelico archtop that I got to savor for 10...
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Our mistakes weren't quite so easy to undo
But by all those roads, my friend, we've travelled down
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