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    Default Always put your instrument in its case...

    Unless you're really in a hurry and are coming back real soon. Yes, this did happen, yes, I know the owner and I took the picture. It's a Gibson fern that was signed by Sim Daley. It's a few years old I think. We were in the practice room of a venue before a gig and he ran out for a few minutes.
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    Well, that’s not very nice! Probably a banjo player....

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    Nah, just a mandolin player looking for a safe place to stash his mandolin while he ran a quick errand.
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    Good thing the custodian didn't come in...

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    that mandolin looks trashed, lol!
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    The was an elderly gentleman who used to come to our jam and who never wanted to spend any money for a case. He used to come to the jam with his fiddle, mandolinand harmonica and whatever in a plastic wastebasket like the one in Mike's picture.
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    Playing a dance tonight and one of the fiddle players set his fiddle in a shopping cart, I immediately thought of this thread. Thought about taking a picture, but didn't.
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    Default Re: Always put your instrument in its case...

    Quote Originally Posted by MikeEdgerton View Post
    Nah, just a mandolin player looking for a safe place to stash his mandolin while he ran a quick errand.
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    The was an elderly gentleman who used to come to our jam and who never wanted to spend any money for a case. He used to come to the jam with his fiddle, mandolinand harmonica and whatever in a plastic wastebasket like the one in Mike's picture.
    Some folks like cheap instrument stands.

    that mandolin in the trash pic should have a funny caption on it, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeEdgerton View Post
    Nah, just a mandolin player looking for a safe place to stash his mandolin while he ran a quick errand.
    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Garber View Post
    The was an elderly gentleman who used to come to our jam and who never wanted to spend any money for a case. He used to come to the jam with his fiddle, mandolinand harmonica and whatever in a plastic wastebasket like the one in Mike's picture.
    Some folks like cheap instrument stands.

    That "F mandolin in the trash" pic should have a funny caption on it, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DavidKOS View Post

    That "F mandolin in the trash" pic should have a funny caption on it, though.
    'looks like someone's got perfect pitch!
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    "I'm just playing a bunch of garbage tonight"....

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    Am sure a number of banjo players would have liked if it stayed there.

    Next time the person should have a Strad-O-Lin. Then he knows he wouldn't be playing garbage
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    I got one...



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    If you find it in the trash, it’s yours! Law of the streets...
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    I forget who it was but didn`t a picker find a signed Loar in a trashcan some years ago....I think it need repairs though...

    I have heard quite a few mandolins that should also be in that trashcan...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Willie Poole View Post
    I forget who it was but didn`t a picker find a signed Loar in a trashcan some years ago....I think it need repairs though...

    I have heard quite a few mandolins that should also be in that trashcan...

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    Yeah, IIRC the frets were worn, so it got tossed, by a surviving relative of the owner?

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    Ira Louvin was being a bit gentle with this one.

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    That must have been the professional mandolin player that hit the lottery for a million dollars. When he was asked how his life was going to change he replied that it wouldn't change and that he was going to just keep playing the mandolin until the money ran out.
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    Don't show that picture to my wife, she would think the garbage can is a perfectly appropriate place to put a mandolin...

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    Quote Originally Posted by T_Burdette View Post
    Well, that’s not very nice! Probably a banjo player....
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    Yup, musta been a banjo player [smile]
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    Nope, banjo players realize that mandolins are the only reason people don't blame tuning lag on stage on the banjo.

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    The case is close by. Does the owner get credit for that? (Of course, that could be someone else's case.)

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    If you left it there till morning, there'd have been 3 banjos stacked in with it!

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