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acumando
Oct-19-2005, 3:08pm
the good news:
my wife calls to tell me my Joe Foley mandolin has been delivered and will be waiting for me when i arrive home from work.
the bad news:
category 5 hurricane headed toward my house....
the best of times, the worst of times...
Celtic Saguaro
Oct-19-2005, 3:10pm
Good luck with both!
glauber
Oct-19-2005, 3:21pm
Just remember: get that mandolin out of harm's way! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Yikes! I hope it goes well with you, your family and the house.
If given a "choice..., GRAB that mando!(just kidding, of course!) - Hang tough!!!### - Moose. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif
kyblue
Oct-19-2005, 4:24pm
Evacuate! (but with the Foley)
steve in tampa
Oct-19-2005, 5:39pm
You must be in Florida too. We got evacuated for Charley last year.
glauber
Oct-19-2005, 6:09pm
Evacuate! (but with the Foley)
Evacuate! But not on the Foley!
Mikey G
Oct-19-2005, 6:29pm
My daughter recently asked me which mandolin I would take with me if a hurricane were to hit at our house. I told her that since we were in TN. that I couldn't forsee that happening, but also told her that I'd try to grab all four of them if I could. Those opposable thumbs sure come in handy!
Best wishes, and I hope everyone in your area fares well!
glauber
Oct-19-2005, 7:49pm
Just be glad you don't play the grand piano.
Mandobar
Oct-19-2005, 8:23pm
i hear that mando is killer.
JEStanek
Oct-19-2005, 9:56pm
Be glad you don't have a cello or Bass collection! Good luck and get the flock outta dodge.
Jamie
flairbzzt
Oct-19-2005, 10:45pm
Ship the mando to your most trusted out of state friend or family member overnite for safekeeping and keep your beater handy if you need a paddle! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
steve V. johnson
Oct-19-2005, 11:27pm
"Ship the mando to your most trusted out of state friend or family member overnite for safekeeping and keep your beater handy if you need a paddle!"
Great idea. We have very kind mando weather here in Indiana. I'd be happy to take care of it for you!
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stv
acumando
Oct-19-2005, 11:57pm
well, i got to look at her and play her a bit but it was after the laddie's bedtime when i got home.
breathtakingly beautiful -- Foley's inlayed binding is to die for, and my wife (who barely notices the scroll on my Fs) was cooing over the signature headstock and rosewood back.
the sound... what little i was able to play without waking up the little guy was definitely what i was expecting -- lively, deep, delicate, great sustain, terrific action... i played a couple of reels and woke my son, so wasn't able to get a full workout, but what i got was really lovely.
neck is wider than what i'm used to, so that will take adjusting to, but otherwise it is sweet sweet sweet and looks to be in excellent condition for a ten-year old mandolin and with negligible fretwear.
and hey, Wilma might be only a cat 1 when it hits Broward county over the weekend... in any case, i've got the Foley to entertain the family while we wait it out.
thanks for all the good wishes... #Steve in Tampa, take care, who knows where this thing will go...
Ken Berner
Oct-20-2005, 3:33pm
We stayed here (Gulf Coast) for Katrina and hunkered down in a walk-in closet (an interior enclosed room). With us were all mandolins, valuable papers, etc; all precious things should be kept close at hand (spouse included, of course!)
Mando4Life
Oct-20-2005, 3:38pm
Congrats on the new mandolin!!!
Make sure you have it in one hand and the family holding the other; if they tell you to go...well GO!!
I'm headed down to Mississippi on Monday to assist with cleanup efforts from Katrina. Keep a watchful eye out...and enoy that new mando!!!
Stay safe,
WBL