You cannot be sirius!
"This is a museum mandolin
If you are sirius- please call and we will give you more information
With Original case"
Probably original strings, too.
You cannot be sirius!
"This is a museum mandolin
If you are sirius- please call and we will give you more information
With Original case"
Probably original strings, too.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
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But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
Wow, I guess it’s time for me to sell my A50 that I use for my kitchen table mandolin; got it for $150 at a local pawn shop and only had to clean off the accumulated dust, replace the rusty strings, install new Klusen tuners (button rot) and get a tailpiece cover. It’s not mint, having five spots that really look like BB hits and it’s lacking a pickguard, but it’s fun to play while I look out the window and daydream. But, boy, if I could get 10 grand for it.........!!!
- Denis
i think the "sirius " answers the question
Danny Clark
I think it's more likely she's just being pompous, positing a pontificating piece of puffery. Though to be fair, and despite that fun bit of folderol, she didn't say "museum mandolin." She was referring to the term "abrasions" as a "fancy museum word for scratches." But I will say, it is not in "gorgeous condition." There are some nasty scratches on the top, on the bass side, as well as a scrape along the binding there.
By the way, the other mandolin she mentions that she had seen in Indianapolis looks like a much nicer mandolin, and actually may have been worth $4000, to the right buyer.
Last edited by journeybear; Mar-18-2021 at 6:20pm. Reason: Thought of something else
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
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I mean, in the original Craig's List ad. "This is a museum mandolin."
But yea it could equally be a pompous piece of puffery.
I bought, and subsequently sold, a beautiful bed coverlet that was a deaccession from a museum. I loved it and unfortunately had to sell it. In selling it through an antiques broker I was advised to mention, and detail, that it had been a part of a museum collection. These things matter to some.
Last edited by JeffD; Mar-18-2021 at 8:49pm.
Oh! Oops! My bad ...
Nothing pompous about the ad (except the price), but the Ph.D. in the video is another story. In more ways than one.
And yes, being termed a museum piece adds at least the perception of it being significant, somehow. People assume that if a museum determines it worthy of exhibition, it must be extraordinary, even exceptional. One wonders what that means in this case.
When, through a fluky series of circumstances, I had a sculpture constructed for a school project exhibited at Yale's Peabody Museum of Natural History, I made a point of putting that on my college applications. By itself, it didn't make the work any more valuable or even noteworthy, but it did sound impressive.
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
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