Last week I finally decided that I was too lazy (and getting perhaps a bit older lol) to continue down the rabbit hole of learning the octave mandolin. My beloved Burgin Shanghai needed to go to a better home! And, I acknowledged to myself that I truly regretted selling my Phoenix Neoclassical. Soooo.....I put a "for trade" ad on the Cafe - believing it was a zillion to one chance that someone would have an immaculate neoclassical and would want to trade it for an octave mandolin. But to my absolute shock my ad was answered almost immediately by fellow Cafe member Bob Clark!
Bob and I each drove a few hours to meet and exchange instruments today and both of us are immensely pleased! It was really enjoyable to meet and chat with Bob. I think if we lived next store to one another we'd become great friends - as we have many similar interests.
Bob had been building and experimenting with piccolo mandolins and he brought two of them along - one with nylon strings (a prototype) which was particularly fascinating! To see them check out this thread:
https://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/t...10#post1877410
Today was most enjoyable - and both of us appreciate the Cafe in making the opportunity to meet! And, yes, the Cafe gets a donation on trades!!!
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