Saw this in a museum the other day. Think it would work for price-matching?
Need a new mandolin? Can't beat these prices!
Saw this in a museum the other day. Think it would work for price-matching?
Re: Need a new mandolin? Can't beat these prices!
I like the guitar in the center right. Note in the guitar description that it has an ebonized fingerboard and bridge. Seems like staining wood black and calling it ebonized has been around awhile.
Re: Need a new mandolin? Can't beat these prices!
There's an entire Social Group on the cafe devoted to vintage ads. Take a few minutes and upload your picture.
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/group.php?groupid=98
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Re: Need a new mandolin? Can't beat these prices!
If you ever time travel to the past, be sure to pack plenty of antique money...
Gold Tone F-10
The Loar LM 310f
I enjoy walking barefoot and playing my mandolin, and if I can do both at once, you'd be hard pressed to find a happier soul.
Re: Need a new mandolin? Can't beat these prices!
Yeah, it looks good but you'd have to pay another forty-five cents for shipping!
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
Re: Need a new mandolin? Can't beat these prices!
Using an inflation calculator and assuming the advertisement is around 1913, that nice mandolin valued at $4.98 would cost about $135.41 today. I know of nothing today (other than the Rogue RM-100A) that could be had at a $135.00 price point. You got a lot of bling for your buck back in the day.
Re: Need a new mandolin? Can't beat these prices!
Thats a deal breaker for me. I am not going to pay $5 for a mandolin and then be expected to pay another 45 cents for shippingOriginally Posted by Ranald
Re: Need a new mandolin? Can't beat these prices!
I’d go all in for the super-deluxe $11.25 mando.
2009 Eastman 505
2011 Collings MTO GT
2008 Toyota Sienna
2018 Sawchyn mandola
Mandoline or Mandolin: Similar to the lute, but much less artistically valuable....for people who wish to play simple music without much trouble —The Oxford Companion to Music
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