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    Good news!! I won’t be checking the classifieds hourly anymore…. Just picked up a 1988 Flatiron F5 Artist
    I’m stoked!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by 108 Mile View Post
    Good news!! I won’t be checking the classifieds hourly anymore…. Just picked up a 1988 Flatiron F5 Artist
    I’m stoked!!
    Congratulations. Time to start looking for the next one!

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    Default Re: I have MAS and check the classified hourly…

    Uh-huh. Maybe every other hour. But congratulations! When a search pays off, it's worth whatever it took. Enjoy!
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    I like the Cafe and classifieds because it is an uplifting treasure on the internet. No bad news or ugly opinions, just mandolins. OK I have to admit that I have MAS but it is a medicine good for the soul.
    It's not an addiction... It's an investment.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 108 Mile View Post
    Good news!! I won’t be checking the classifieds hourly anymore…. Just picked up a 1988 Flatiron F5 Artist
    I’m stoked!!
    Congratulations and happy picking!
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    Default Re: I have MAS and check the classified hourly…

    That's like saying you got a headache and you take 2 Advils. Your headache will come back. Seriously looking at them through a bright light screen is not the same as touching them, smelling them, and pickin' them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by f5loar View Post
    That's like saying you got a headache and you take 2 Advils. Your headache will come back. Seriously looking at them through a bright light screen is not the same as touching them, smelling them, and pickin' them.
    Perhaps that's much of what makes a person succumb and buy another one every now and again

    Have fun with the new one, 108 Mile

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    So, for MAS, take two mandolins and call me in the morning. Maybe just one. And don't call too early ...
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    While not actively looking for anything, I do find myself checking the classifieds pretty much every day. I have done this for years, and a couple of times I have seen something that all of a sudden I can't live without. Usually something I see as just a great deal Is there such a thing as InstaMAS?

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    Default Re: I have MAS and check the classified hourly…

    While not actively looking for anything, I do find myself checking the classifieds pretty much every day. I have done this for years, and a couple of times I have seen something that all of a sudden I can't live without. Usually something I see as just a great deal Is there such a thing as InstaMAS?

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    Enjoy the new mando! I check the classifieds nearly every day as well, then go play either of my mandolins and think, 'these are great!' So far so good....

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    I check the classifieds nearly every day just because I love looking at mandolins. Haven't bought another one in about 5 years, but no harm in looking. "Just because I'm on a diet doesn't mean I can't look at the menu..." LOL!!

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    "After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by beginnerbill View Post
    "After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.”

    Mr. Spock
    The hunt is a big part of the fun. I need another mandolin like I need another hole in my head, lol! Tonight I'll be taking a road trip with a friend to check out one of interest.
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    I don't have MAS - not at a disruptive level, having assuaged it (for now) through purchases - but I check the Forum hourly, it seems like. I guess I'm living vicariously, enjoying folks' enjoyment and tales of searching and finding. I mean, I'm pretty much all set (still want a reso), but it's good to read others' success stories. It makes me happy to see so much happiness experienced and expressed about this.

    Quote Originally Posted by jim simpson View Post
    The hunt is a big part of the fun. I need another mandolin like I need another hole in my head, lol! Tonight I'll be taking a road trip with a friend to check out one of interest.
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    Raise your hand if when you made your last instrument purchase, you promised your spouse you would not buy another one until 2023.

    I don't see any hands--hold 'em up high! Is it really just me?

    Since summer of 2020, I've acquired five mandolins (two of those are octave and they're all different). Recently I decided it was time for me to learn guitar, an instrument I had managed to avoid for nearly 63 years now. I now have three, one of which is a bass.

    Everything is acoustic, because acoustic.

    I guess that'll keep me busy until the next new year. But I'm already thinking of what I'll want to add to the stable then . . . .
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    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,
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    Well, I didn't make any time related promises, but I was supposed to sell one and haven't yet.

    Nevertheless, I'm looking hard at something I don't need, but it's a marginally problematical distance away.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sue Rieter View Post
    Well, I didn't make any time related promises, but I was supposed to sell one and haven't yet."
    I have never managed "release" yet, I only "catch." I also play guitar, and I have all of the guitars I have ever wanted, and (like my mandolins,) they are better than I will ever live up to. They are far finer instruments than I will ever be a player, they will never "hold me back." But I long ago decided it was more fun to be "pretty good" at many instruments than superb at just one. So I go merrily along having fun with many different instruments, very gradually improving but will never (unless I live to 150) get there. The fun (for me) is in the journey.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sue Rieter View Post
    I was supposed to sell one and haven't yet.
    I'm pretty sure my beloved husband knows better than to ask me to get rid of anybody.
    Phoebe, my 2021 Collings MT mandolin
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    Louise, my 193x SS Maxwell mandolin
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    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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    Quote Originally Posted by LadysSolo View Post
    I have never managed "release" yet, I only "catch." I also play guitar, and I have all of the guitars I have ever wanted, and (like my mandolins,) they are better than I will ever live up to. They are far finer instruments than I will ever be a player, they will never "hold me back." But I long ago decided it was more fun to be "pretty good" at many instruments than superb at just one. So I go merrily along having fun with many different instruments, very gradually improving but will never (unless I live to 150) get there. The fun (for me) is in the journey.
    This attitude is delightful. I concur.
    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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    Quote Originally Posted by Sheila Lagrand View Post
    Raise your hand if when you made your last instrument purchase, you promised your spouse you would not buy another one until 2023.
    Well, since I'm not sharing my cabin with anyone, for better or worse, for richer or poorer (which is where MASsers end up), I'm good for now. I mean, there's no one to stop me or try to talk me out of iffy purchases. Except for all y'all hereabouts - and thanks to everyone who helped me back off from the Bullet Hole Steel Mandolin.

    This video/song is about fishing (more or less), not buying instruments, but both involve scales, so ...



    PS: Didn't you use to include your husband in your signature's lift of acquisitions?
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    Every mandolin I have acquired I intended to keep forever. And I have only deaquisitioned two. Over many many years.
    A talent for trivializin' the momentous and complicatin' the obvious.

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    Quote Originally Posted by journeybear View Post
    PS: Didn't you use to include your husband in your signature's lift of acquisitions?
    I did, but as the list of stringed things grew, I ran out of space--and then I contemplated and decided I really shouldn't lump him in with things. At least I rationalized the change that way.

    You're observant!
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    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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    I feel your pain. Sadly, a good friend of mine pointed out that MAS also stands for microphone acquisition syndrome:/

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sheila Lagrand View Post
    I did, but as the list of stringed things grew, I ran out of space--and then I contemplated and decided I really shouldn't lump him in with things. At least I rationalized the change that way.

    You're observant!
    Thanks. I just have an unreformed former editor's eye for detail, when it comes to the written word.

    I've long thought it was very charming, your list of anthropomorphized instruments. Good for a chuckle now and then. Including hubby was a nice fit with the humor. When I saw he was no longer named, I was a bit concerned. I wondered whether you had offloaded him, how much you got in trade for him, things like that. I imagine the trade-in value on vintage SO's is considerably less than that for vintage mandolins. Glad to learn my concern was not warranted.
    But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller

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