This one has potential for Bob Clark’s range of feline mandolins.
This one has potential for Bob Clark’s range of feline mandolins.
Jim
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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.
"To be obsessed with the destination is to remove the focus from where you are." Philip Toshio Sudo, Zen Guitar
An early example of recycling I would think but maybe misplaced!
Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
Some tunes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1...SV2qtug/videos
For $50, I bet it'll just be used for decoration.
It'd add to the decor of my outhouse, for sure.
It does have tuners and a tailpiece on it, maybe the buyer just wanted the hardware.
There is such a thing as an instrument for free that isn't worth the price.
I wouldn't hang it on the wall, it could seriously de-value your house.
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2011 Weber Bitteroot A5
2012 Weber Bitteroot F5
Eastman MD 915V
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2016 Capek ' Bob ' standard scale tenor banjo
Ibanez Artist 5 string
2001 Paul Shippey oval hole
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?
Nah ...
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Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
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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But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
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?
Jim
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Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
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!
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.
In case you forgot what it looked like
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"To be obsessed with the destination is to remove the focus from where you are." Philip Toshio Sudo, Zen Guitar
Somebody made a planter out of a pearl-trimmed '30s Martin guitar once.
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?
But that's just my opinion. I could be wrong. - Dennis Miller
Furthering Mandolin Consciousness
Finders Keepers, my duo with the astoundingly talented and versatile Patti Rothberg. Our EP is finally done, and available! PM me, while they last!
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