My Melody King Mandolin

[Hylandra]

I am new to posting....so if I posted in the wrong Place...im sorry....lol.......

This Mandolin is Melody King, I Need to find out some information on it and the value,it has a few scratches but no cracks, it does not have the original case...I aquired it about 10 years ago.....I have looked for years for information on this particular Mandolin and I cannot find anything, so any information would be appreciated.......also I am considering selling this mandolin


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[Hylandra]

opps duplicated my pictures...lol

[MikeEdgerton]

It was made by Kay in Chicago, probably circa 1940-1950. Might have been a little earlier. You can probably find similar mandolins if you search eBay's closed auctions using the keywords Kay and mandolin. That will get you a value. Make sure you look at the amounts in green as those are actually what the items sold for. Kay made for the trade as well as under their own brand name.

[Hylandra]

Thank you Mike

[bmac]

Some folks on this site may have an interest in your Kay mandolin. I certainly find its shape interesting.

[Jim Garber]

I love the shape of those Kay's however I believe this one, tho looking in good shape, is a bottom of the line budget model. It looks like the "binding" is painted on -- is that correct. Still it is a cool looking one and the oval holes are less common than the f-holes FWIW.

[MikeEdgerton]

It also looks like a flat top and back but that might be an optical illusion.

[Hylandra]

The Mandolin is flat on the front and back., and it has a white painted trim all around the Mandolin about 1/4 inch its on the top and sides..........sorry for posting so many pics......lol

[Hylandra]

The man I aquired it from found it in his grandfathers attic,after he passed away, hanging from a rope tied to the neck in the center of the attic...but he remembered him playing it when he was a child...he thought it was odd that his grandfather had a rope tied to it to suspend it in the air

[MikeEdgerton]

I think it's a little odd myself.

[ColdBeerGoCubs]

The man I aquired it from found it in his grandfathers attic,after he passed away, hanging from a rope tied to the neck in the center of the attic...but he remembered him playing it when he was a child...he thought it was odd that his grandfather had a rope tied to it to suspend it in the air

That's deep.

[F-2 Dave]

Farmers used to (maybe some still do) tie things up in the barn loft that they didn't want mice to get into. Maybe it was something like that. Or perhaps the mandolin did something really, really bad.

[Hylandra]

Thats good to know...So I guess that must be why he had it hanging from the ceiling....lol @ just because'...thats a good one

[bmac]

I can't think of a better way for attic dead storage of an instrument... As long as the roof doesn't leak. It would never have old suitcases or unused furniture piled on top of it.

[Hylandra]

lol...whats Gunga ....Gunga....Gu..Lunga mean....hahahaa...thats a new one on me....lol

[morghath]

That a very good way to teach a bad mandolin a lesson it will never forget

[Gregory Tidwell]

Watch Caddyshack and all will be made known.

[Hylandra]

Are you all saying my Mandolin is a bad Mandolin???....All I wanted was to know about this Mandolin...I didn't come here for people to make jokes and fun of me, when all i wanted was to know about the Mandolin.....if this is what this sites about then I have no business even being here.............I'm taking my Mandolin pictures off....even if its not worth $50 dollars....its not nice to make fun of it.... to me its worth more than all of your fancy Mandolins combined...

[Jim Garber]

Hylandra: I don't think anyone was making fun of you or your mandolin. People on this site rarely do such things. I have been on here for years and what I like best is the civility. I think the joke was that your mandolin was hanging in the attic. People do like Kays for their mojo. If you like and play your Melody King, that is truly all that is important. Enjoy it and don't take silliness so seriously.

[jaycat]

I thought she meant the old guy was found hanging from a rope.

[CES]

They were joking about the mandolin hanging from a rope in the attic, not about the mandolin itself. And they weren't making fun of your mandolin by saying that it was a budget model, just giving you the factual information you requested. There's nothing wrong with budget instruments, and I have several myself...they can be quite cool and fun to play. But, they're not expensive, top tier instruments, either. I played a budget mandolin exclusively for a long time...

Your mando is cool...if you want to sell it, do so. If not, play it, play it, play it! But I wouldn't recommend storing it in an attic ever again...just gets too hot up there in the summertime!

[CES]

double post, sorry...

[bmac]

In fact no one was intentionally putting you, or your instrument down... Many of us envy you, myself included. Plenty of fulks focus on lower end instruments and sometimes one runs accross funny stories or historical information which gets a chuckle. but it is seldom, if ever, meant to put someone down as far as I can tell. This is a surprisingly civil group.

[Jim Garber]

I have a feeling that Hylandra is long gone, having taken it all as an insult. Too bad...

[Pete Summers]

Wow. Thin skin.