NMD and a little story
Today I received Dolly, my new Ibanez M522 f-style mandolin. She's definitely a different kind of critter from any of my other mandolins. I bought her to address a situation that arose recently when Rich and I went to California to visit our grandson, who shattered his femur in a dirtbike accident. This particular grandson's father, my husband's firstborn, died in a motorcycle accident in 2006, when the boy was two years old, so this misadventure has been particularly stressful.
We were visiting on Sunday morning at our daughter-in-law's home and I was quietly noodling around on Phoebe as we chatted. Our almost-eight-year-old granddaughter, who is a delightful firecracker of a child, was sitting across the room, doing little girl things. After a while she looked up and nodded my way, saying, "that's so relaxing!"
We didn't even know the child had any concept related to relaxing.
A bit later she wandered my way and sat down beside me, looking with interest at my Collings. Her mother immediately said, "Casey, don't touch that."
By the time we had arrived home in Arizona that evening, at least two good outcomes were clear to me. Our hearts had been lightened by the time with family and our grandson's excellent prognosis. And I had determined that I needed to acquire a mandolin that I could hand to Casey, or one of her siblings or cousins, and say, "Here. Check it out."
Phoebe, my 2021 Collings MT mandolin
Dolly, my 2021 Ibanez M522 mandolin
Louise, my 193x SS Maxwell mandolin
Fiona, My 2021 GSM guitar-bodied octave resonator mandolin
Charlotte, my 2016 Eastman MDO 305 octave mandolin
And Giuliana, my 2002 Hans Schuster 505 violin, Nehenehe, my 2021 Aklot concert ukulele,
Annie, my 2022 Guild M-140 guitar, Joni, my 1963 Harmony 1215 Archtone archtop guitar,
Yoko, my ca. 1963 Yamaha Dynamic No.15 guitar, and Rich, my 1959 husband.
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