stradolin 2 point mandolin on ebay

[Richard Singleton]

currently on ebay:

http://cgi.ebay.com/VINTAGE-USTRADS-60S-STRAD-O-LIN-MANDOLIN-EXCELLENT_W0QQitemZ390116903945QQcmdZViewItemQQptZ LH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5ad4c78c09

[Bruce Clausen]

When someone begins an ad for a 1960s instrument by saying "This belonged to my grandfather", I get a funny feeling I'm getting old.

BC

[kalenh]

When someone begins an ad for a 1960s instrument by saying "This belonged to my grandfather", I get a funny feeling I'm getting old.

BC


My Grandparents drive a 2008 Buick.

:grin:


I don't necessarily feel that that makes anyone younger/older just stating a fact. Now if it said

"Original owner This was my grandfathers first instrument as a wee lad.with original case."

Then I'd feel old.

[Richard Singleton]

I've read at least 3 ebay mandolin listings this week that were selling grandpa's mandolin. If it were me I don't think I could let one go!

[MikeEdgerton]

This Strad-O-Lin was built very late in the Strad history. My favorite eBay line for Grandpa's instruments is when they say "This is a family heirloom so I'm not going to sell it cheap".

[billkilpatrick]

... My favorite eBay line for Grandpa's instruments is when they say "This is a family heirloom so I'm not going to sell it cheap".

lol - sort of says it all ...

[Bruce Clausen]

I think Richard may be on to something. Far too many mandolins for sale are said to have belonged to a grandfather. I wonder if it's a salesman's euphemism for "Here's something I picked up at a flea market yesterday that I'm hoping to triple my money on."

If MY grandfather had bought a mandolin as a young man, it would probably have been an 1898 Washburn. But I'm afraid his ethnic prejudices were such as to rule out the mandolin as an instrument for him.

BC

[MikeEdgerton]

I have my Step-father's Martin Uke that he bought in the 20's. Oh how I wish he'd played the mandolin and bought himself one of them Gibson F5's. :cool:

By the way, my kids probably won't sell that uke.

[allenhopkins]

I have my paternal grandfather's violin, an unremarkable American Conservatory. But I did find my maternal grandfather's second wife's Gibson A-1 in the attic of his house in 1970. It's been all downhill since, I'm afraid.

But I concur that most of these eBay "family heirlooms" may be of doubtful provenance.

[Greg Stec]

I have my paternal grandfather's violin

I have a distant cousin who has HIS grandfather's two no-name violins and no-name bowl back mandolin. This grandfather is one on my GREAT-grandfathers. Those instruments haven't been played since the guy died in the mid-1930s. My cousin got them from his father, neither my cousin nor his father played string instruments, but they're still in the family.


My two cents
Greg