My Melody King Mandolin

[Hylandra]

Yes I guess I do have thin skin here lately .....when he said gunga gunga...or whatever that was he said....and then the other said thats a way to teach a bad mandolin a lesson.....it hurt my feelings....I had been all day clearing out my sons belongings..he died...and he used to play the Mandolin and he liked it...and i felt like someone was making fun of it .....and I guess it was were I was emotional all day having to throw things of his away...and I may have taken it wrong in what everyone said...so i'm sorry if I took it wrong....I was just having a really bad day. when i read the posts and may have taken it as an insult to the Mandolin.....God Bless...Hylandra

[allenhopkins]

Sorry beyond words about your son. There's a Jewish saying, which I guess, loosely translated, is "Every angel cries when a parent buries a child."

Honestly, the idea of a mandolin hanging by its neck in an attic just struck some of us as ludicrous. Who knows why the person stored it that way -- probably had no case, didn't want it to get broken, thought "It'll be safer up here." Had we known your overall circumstances I think we'd have throttled back on the jokes.

Good luck.

[Bill Snyder]

Every post he makes ends in Gunga......Gunga.....Gu-Lunga, that is his signature line and it has nothing to do with your instrument.
The comment about teaching a "bad mandolin a lesson it will never forget" did not appear to me to be a comment on the quality of the mandolin but rather a joke about it having misbehaved and being punished.
I am sorry for your loss. As a parent I can not fathom the grief that must come with the loss of a child. All I can do is offer up a prayer for your comfort.

[Mandolin Mick]

Hylandra,

So sorry to hear about your son and you have a nice mandolin.

Sometimes guys here like to make each other laugh, but our posts come off the wrong way and we end up offending people. I've done it myself. That's the problem with e-mails, etc., because you can't see the writer's face or hear the inflections of the voice.

The guys here are actually great and will give you whatever info you need on your mandolin.

Hope you have a better day tomorrow!

[Jim Garber]

I am glad we didn't drive you away permanently, Hylandra. So sorry about your travails. We are glad you are back tho.

[morghath]

Hylanda,
That mandolin is worth more than money can buy sorry about the joke nothing meant by it. God bless ya.

[Rodney Riley]

Hylanda,
That mandolin is worth more than money can buy... God bless ya.

I'm with morghath on this one too. If it was an instrument my son loved and played. (Like his "Dime Bag Darrell" guitar) And we lost him. It would be in my possession until I am reunited with him. You are added to our prayers...

I remember at my Grandparents coal shed, there was a lot of stuff hung up with used binder twine. (WW1 uniform and gas mask, a smoked ham, bundle of onions, man, it's been over 50 years since I was in that shed) A nail and twine was cheaper than building shelves for stuff. And as mentioned before, think it kept things up where the varmits couldn't get to 'em.