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    This one has potential for Bob Clark’s range of feline mandolins.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sue Rieter View Post
    Okay, you guys, what about this one:

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    (It actually looks like it would be pretty cool if it weren't so beat ... low price, too )
    Did you buy it Sue? It says it sold for $50.
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    Not me. I don't have the wherewithal to work on something like that. For me it would be a wall hanger. I guess someone saw some kind of potential there. It reminds me a little of an Octofone.
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    An early example of recycling I would think but maybe misplaced!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sue Rieter View Post
    Okay, you guys, what about this one:

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    (It actually looks like it would be pretty cool if it weren't so beat ... low price, too )
    I see it was sold. One does wonder what the purchaser intends.
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    I see it was sold. One does wonder what the purchaser intends.
    Planter? Spittoon? Halloween mask?
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    I see it was sold. One does wonder what the purchaser intends.
    Have you checked the price of kindling wood lately?
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    For $50, I bet it'll just be used for decoration.

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    It'd add to the decor of my outhouse, for sure.

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    It does have tuners and a tailpiece on it, maybe the buyer just wanted the hardware.

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    It does have tuners and a tailpiece on it, maybe the buyer just wanted the hardware.
    Many repairable things are scrapped for parts that are then used to repair or retain originality on others. This is either indefensible or just fine, depending on perspective. I tend to favor the former.

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    There is such a thing as an instrument for free that isn't worth the price.

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    I wouldn't hang it on the wall, it could seriously de-value your house.

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    My goodness! The floodgates have swung open and a torrent of tittilation has washed over the land. Methinks thou all doth protest too much, and this hath the aroma of sour grapes. Couldst be thee are all lamenting failing to bid just one more dollar to call this brazenly unique artifact your own for a mere $51?




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    The floodgates have swung open and a torrent of tittilation has washed over the land.
    A very poetic definition of what this thread is all about.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bertram Henze View Post
    A very poetic definition of what this thread is all about.
    Perhaps a wee bit too poetic. Ah, sweet schadenfreude!
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    There is such a thing as an instrument for free that isn't worth the price.
    Agreed. Free piano is an example -- it will still cost you to move it and have it tuned.

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    Agreed. Free piano is an example -- it will still cost you to move it and have it tuned.
    Wait, people actually tune pianos? Why wasn't I informed?
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    The bass player in one of my bands got gifted an upright piano, and learned how to tune it himself. We had a good bit of fun with it, toting it to gigs for a while in the back of a pickup truck. One memorable time we carted it to one of the biggest clubs in town, The Green Parrot, for a Cinco De Mayo gig. We had some fun afterward - instead of driving it straight back, we toodled along the main srag for a few blocks with a bunch of us also in the back, playing music and carrying on. It was pop-up one-vehicle parade. Good times! And he just left it behind when he moved out. So, no cost, but plenty of entertainment.

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    Am I remembering correctly that there was a scene in Five Easy Pieces of Jack Nicholson character playing piano on the back of a pickup truck. Or was that another movie?
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    NMC, but since we drifted into pianos... My brother plays guitar and tunes pianos in the SF Bay Area. Every year there are several pianos set out in the Presidio Park for casual doodling and concerts. They require daily tuning. He has a very sore right arm after that week. He's also been involved in an art project that involved a piano left outside at Half Moon Bay, with a documentary filming the gradually disintegrating piano being played each day as it was exposed to the elements.

    Fortunately, no mandolins were harmed during that project!

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    Okay, since we're on pianos now, my parents had a piano that we were unsuccessful at giving away. My brother took out the soundboard and made an art project (wall hanging) out of it. The rest of the piano he made into a planter and similarly documented it's gradual decomposition. It was a functional planter for two seasons.

    After that, it was relegated to his fire pit, piece by piece.

    Have you ever seen those planters that hang on a wall and the plants flow out of them? That mandolin might do well as a planter like that. If hung outside, someone could document it's final moldering as it supported some kind of vegetation.

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    Somebody made a planter out of a pearl-trimmed '30s Martin guitar once.

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    Um, yeah, no, that notion doesn't hold water. Because I don't think the instument will hold water. It's coming apart at the seams, and looks to be otherwise structurally unsound for holding weight, beyond its own. I've seen photos of mandolins set into the ground and similar in order to have plants set into them. But as I recall, I think those were done with instruments that had served their intended purpose for a long time, but began to deteriorate structurally beyond a point of musical usefulness, so then were converted to this other purpose. I'm not convinced someone would spend money to acquire some dilapidated instrument in order to construct this sort of project. But who knows? I think it's more likely someone has some notion of this being a fixer-upper, or perhaps wants to use it as a teaching tool in a program of instructing a student in the methods of luthiery. It's not something most of us here would want anything to do with. But who knows?
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    Um, yeah, no, that notion doesn't hold water. Because I don't think the instument will hold water. ...
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