My new beach mandolin!

[journeybear]

Hmmm ... Upon further reflection, filtered by the sands of time sifting through my foggy mind, it may have been further up the shore to Michigan, Warren Dunes, where some friends from Illinois and Indiana dragged me while going to college in Wisconsin. It was a very Midwestern weekend, many moons ago.

[Charles E.]

F-D, back around 1986 or so when I was bopping around the lower keys, I played a Flatiron. It was the perfect beach mandolin. I played it on the beach, while fishing and in some funky bars ( the bar at No Name Key was a favorite ). Excelliant choice!

[fatt-dad]

I've played my Flatiron pancake for many years and never relegated it to beach duty. It's just those mandolins that I would take to the beach were just no fun to play. what a difference having a real instrument at the beach.

Yada, yada, yada on the salt and sand. the strings get replaced and in two years if I have to replace the tuners, the collateral damage (like what $50?) is worth it.

f-d

[Dan Adams]

I took my 2M and busked in the Latin Quarter in Galway, Ireland. One person stopped in his tracks and recognized the distinctive sound of the instument as a Flatiron pancake. Known around the world... but I must say, he seriously over estimated what my 'beach/camping/busking mando is worth. Nice pickin f-d. Dan

[Robert Mitchell]

nice tune. I've got a mandolin that'd be perfect for the beach - all i need is a beach

lifes a beach!!!

[Rodney Riley]

You could just go to Lake Michigan - Indiana Dunes is pretty nice.

Too close to C**k County... try never to go farther North than Champaign/Urbana.

[Steve Ostrander]

[QUOTE][Too close to C**k County... try never to go farther North than Champaign/Urbana. /QUOTE]

Indiana Dunes is nothing like Cook Co. It's a beautiful place, quite rural, actually, with beautiful beaches, shore birds and wildflowers.

Warren Dunes are nice. Sleeping Bear Dunes are spectacular.

[fatt-dad]

about 10 miles (or less) east of the Indiana Dunes State Park is "Mount Baldy." That's a monster dune and quite fun to visit (if you like running on the dune and such).

f-d

[Verne Andru]

Ah, beaches. I live across the street from one of the best here and have taken my resonator mando down there from time to time. One of my fave ways to pass the time.

[Highlander]

I do 18th Century Reenacting and have been bringing my Sutz 100 year old Mandolin to camp, learning a lot of period music, sometimes we have a guitar, a Bodhran (Celtic Drum) and wonderful voices to carry the music though the camp.