Act fast.
Act fast.
Summit Artist V mandolin #384 (2011)
R.L. Givens A5 mandolin #151 (1978)
Jerman electric mandolin 4 string
Pisgah custom banjo #888 (2017)
Martin 000-18 guitar #218946 (1967)
parlor guitar, ice cream cone heel, unlabeled
Sebastien Kloz fiddle (1734, authenticated)
Just sold on eBay. What items will be up for auction next?
Summit Artist V mandolin #384 (2011)
R.L. Givens A5 mandolin #151 (1978)
Jerman electric mandolin 4 string
Pisgah custom banjo #888 (2017)
Martin 000-18 guitar #218946 (1967)
parlor guitar, ice cream cone heel, unlabeled
Sebastien Kloz fiddle (1734, authenticated)
Well, for $300 you could set up a business making "torrefied" mandolin bridges (using this toaster) with the 100% honest claim that the wood is toasted on the same equipment that Bill Monroe used.............................to make his morning toast!
Investors?
I'm guessing it was purchased by a well known Monroe memorabilia collector named Tom. Just a wild guess on my part.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
(chorus to the upcoming hit "Bill Monroe's Toaster") - Ok gang... how about a community songwriting project? Go for it!
I've always been a humble man
I've never been a boaster
But here today I proudly say
I own Bill Monroe's toaster
Last edited by Glassweb; Jan-13-2018 at 7:14pm.
Life is like a roller coaster
We can all agree on that
But when Bill would use his toaster
Do you think he wore a hat?
(to the tune of Life's Railway to Heaven)
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
"I play BG so that's what I can talk intelligently about." A line I loved and pirated from Mandoplumb
OK... so maybe here's an opening shot...
I woke today and checked Ebay
Just like I often do
A junkie for the junky stuff
They sell to me and you
When something really caught my eye
An auction more than most
Intrigued me when I read the phrase
"Of Bill Monroe and Toast"
Last edited by Glassweb; Jan-13-2018 at 9:01pm.
Let rednecks have their collar roaster,
and bidders ride their roller coaster,
I am not the original poster,
I'll never have a Monroe toaster.
This is a fact, but even so,
here's a toast to Bill Monroe!
the world is better off without bad ideas, good ideas are better off without the world
Op’n up my eyes from dreamy sleep
And climb on outa bed
Wish I had Bill’s coffee mug
To help my sleepy head
But all is well for breakfast plans
As now it can be said
Cuz I bought ole’ Monroe’s Toaster
With which to toast my bread
aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 Hand Crafted Pancake
Soliver Hand Crafted Mandolins and Mandolin Armrests
Armrests Here -- Mandolins Here
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
Ole brother Skaggs, he sang about
the way you can’t hurt ham
But I have to say, this very day
That I’m in a little jam
For I bought Monroe’s toaster
But I really cannot boast
I fed it bread and sat too long
And burnt my Bluegrass toast
aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 Hand Crafted Pancake
Soliver Hand Crafted Mandolins and Mandolin Armrests
Armrests Here -- Mandolins Here
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
My wife observed the slots too small
for bagels or a muffin,
But just like Bill I told her then
"That ain't no part o' nuffin!"
Tenbrooks said to Molly
What makes your toast so brown?
Just slide selector farther right
And push the lever down
It ain't gotta be perfect, as long as it's perfect enough!
When I went to use the toaster
I Sure got poisoned dead
My final thought, ’I shouldnt have bought
Monroe’s last loaf of bread’
I haven't got the wherewithal
To go out on a limb.
Now here my sad confession:
My toaster is Pac Rim.
....sorry....
"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
Some tunes: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa1...SV2qtug/videos
And if I remember the label correctly, so was Bill's toaster
It ain't gotta be perfect, as long as it's perfect enough!
Ain't no part of nuthin' if'n it still has a label...
Axes: Eastman MD-515 & El Rey; Eastwood S Mandola
Amps: Fishman Loudbox 100; Rivera Clubster Royale Recording Head & R212 cab; Laney Cub 10
Hope who ever bought it, proposes a toast to Bill's memory...
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
I found a picture of Bill Monroe's other toaster. It seems in his later days, he had downsized from his bus and could be seen in his "toaster".
Old Hometown, Cabin Fever String Band
I was feelin' so blue
Since I ain't got no toaster
From the Monroe estate
I just can't be a boaster
But low and behold
My day is now much more aliver
Cuz I went on Ebay
and bought Monroe's Screwdriver!
For the low low price of $24.99 you can own a screwdriver authenticated to be out of the toolbox of the Father of Bluegrass:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Bill-Monroe...ss!46774!US!-1
aka: Spencer
Silverangel Econo A #429
Soliver #001 Hand Crafted Pancake
Soliver Hand Crafted Mandolins and Mandolin Armrests
Armrests Here -- Mandolins Here
"You can never cross the ocean unless you have the courage
to lose sight of the shore, ...and also a boat with no holes in it.” -anonymous
Just don't get electrocuted by Bill Monroe's Screwdriver when you go to fix his toaster, with it.
Your right, it's a nut driver!
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Last edited by Mandolin Cafe; Jan-15-2018 at 5:51pm.
One has been hilarious folks! The laughter has made me forget that it’s only about 12 degrees outside.
The thing about the “screwdriver” is, it’s not, it’s a nut driver. Looks too big to be used to adjust a truss rod.
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
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