View Full Version : Happiness is...
glauber
Feb-13-2005, 9:13pm
... a broken-in M-11 Mid-Mo with new TI strings on.
Hmmm.... that's nice! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif
Billiam
Feb-13-2005, 9:40pm
... making it through a new tune without errors for the first time!
John Flynn
Feb-13-2005, 10:50pm
...remembering tunes I have learned, but haven't played in a while, when they are called at jams.
taking an improv solo that sounds just right!
danmills
Feb-14-2005, 12:46pm
... when, after yet another weekly band rehearsal, your 12 year old metal head says "Hey, Dad, you guys don't sound half bad anymore!"
Daniel Nestlerode
Feb-14-2005, 1:03pm
Oh Man! Amen to all of the above, especially getting through a tune the whole way without making mistakes for the first time. I'm nearly there with respect to "Soldier's Joy."
May I just add...
...reproducing, more or less accurately, a tune you just heard for the first time.
Daniel
Ted Eschliman
Feb-14-2005, 1:25pm
Mrs. Mandohack submitting, "Oh, alright... You can hold the Q-95 in our family portrait (http://www.tannah.net/ted/images/EschFamilyLg.jpg)."
Avi Ziv
Feb-14-2005, 2:37pm
...your 4 year old son asks you to play mandolin at bed time...again....
Avi
ronlane3
Feb-14-2005, 2:54pm
Joe or Charlie handing me a DMM in the Gibson Showcase and saying "Go on take it home and play it for a few years, no need to pay us for it, just return it when you are done".
Mando4Life
Feb-14-2005, 2:58pm
.....knowing that in 8 weeks I'll be dancing to "A Place in the Heart" with my wife....
glauber
Feb-14-2005, 3:01pm
Joe or Charlie handing me a DMM in the Gibson Showcase and saying "Go on take it home and play it for a few years, no need to pay us for it, just return it when you are done".
That's why they call it "distressed". http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
jessboo
Feb-14-2005, 4:17pm
is a new mandolin
Philip Halcomb
Feb-14-2005, 4:38pm
a BROKEN M-11 Mid-Mo with new TI strings on it. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
darthstar
Feb-14-2005, 4:40pm
... when, after yet another weekly band rehearsal, your 12 year old metal head says "Hey, Dad, you guys don't sound half bad anymore!"
I tell my metal-centric friends that bluegrass is the original "speed-metal" which usually gets them to give it a listen...more often than not, they concur.
My happiness has a tracking number, and right now I'm happy just knowing where it is on it's cross-country journey to my waiting fingers.
Finding "THE" mandolin... and you can actually afford it.
Gibsonman
Feb-14-2005, 5:25pm
For me its finding Mandolin Cafe. I am a new member, and allready I have found a couple of new friends. I hope to find a lot more. I just love the cafe, and thanks to the ones who keep it up. I have allready supported it and will keep on. Hope everbody else feels the same way, so it will last forever.
sunburst
Feb-14-2005, 6:04pm
Selling a mandolin to a great player and then hearing it played expertly on stage, or in a jam.
(I'm a builder)
Or, selling a mandolin to an average player and hearing him/her enjoy playing it.
nobleheart
Feb-14-2005, 7:47pm
-ordering a custom mandolin that you knew was going to be great and having it turn out to be so much more than you dreamed...
-oh yeah, and being married to the perfect gal.
c3hammer
Feb-15-2005, 12:00am
.... getting to play a lefty Loar.
Is there such a thing. There had to be someone who wanted one turned over back then some time.
Cheers,
Pete
jmkatcher
Feb-15-2005, 12:09am
...hearing from your luthier that he's done after a very long silence. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
PlayerOf8
Feb-15-2005, 8:20am
A Monteleone Grand Artist, a day off of work and the phone off the hook.
George
bluesmandolinman
Feb-15-2005, 8:58am
....when you receive and unpack your "new" vintage F-4 and itīs NOT broken ... put new strings on it .... give it a lick or two ... and you know thatīs the sound you were looking for http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif
glauber
Feb-15-2005, 10:42am
... getting your mandoling back from repairs and finding out it plays better than it did before.
mandoman4807
Feb-15-2005, 10:16pm
HITTING A CHOP CHORD ON MY MASTER MODEL AND WATCHING THE NAILS POP FROM THE SHEETROCK http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
Lefty&French
Feb-16-2005, 8:32am
A left Loar too...
Gibsonman
Feb-16-2005, 9:52am
Hey Darrell I love that.
glauber
Feb-16-2005, 10:16am
... a plugged-in Ovation.
Greg H.
Feb-16-2005, 12:48pm
The IBMA trade show and an open checkbook! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
"This is the police department. We've found your mandolin."
mando_pete
Feb-19-2005, 1:15am
... Making that slide from 5 to 7 with an open string above and going back to position in time and then hitting the 3 on whtever two courses you choose. That was a long time ago, but it sure felt good !
... Hearing the wife say ... " I'm only sitting here so I can listen to you play." As your playing Bach out of this world.
pete
goose 2
Feb-20-2005, 3:17am
Learning that the Gilchrist Model 5 that I ordered oh so long ago will be ready this spring.
Smedley Hirkum
Feb-28-2005, 7:54pm
...a warm gun.
mandroid
Feb-28-2005, 8:11pm
A Bi-Polar disorder stuck on UP. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif or is that Manic http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif