Who plays a mandolin worth.......

[MontanaMatt]

Yes, and the full collection is equal to a very nice car, but cars are disposable aren't they?

[yankees1]

who enjoys playing their mandolin more than driving their car?

me !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[John Lloyd]

I don't, but only because currently I don't own a car. I'll cheerfully pay more for a mandolin than for a car, and intend to do just that in the next few months. (Minor detail: I refuse to buy a car new.)

[chuck3]

At this point my picks might be worth more than the value of my car.

ok, I laughed ...

[MikeZito]

There is currently another thread on the boards, talking about a get together of Mandolin Cafe members . . . but based on this thread, there aren't enough of us with decent cars to make the trip!

[mrmando]

I'm guessing the 12-year-old Mercedes with a new engine is worth more than the Randy Wood.

[MissingString]

I can't tell you to the dollar ... but if I were carjacked (or "SUV-jacked") and the assailant said "okay, gimme the keys or gimme the little guitar case in the back seat" ... I'd be walking home with a little guitar case tucked under my arm. So I supposed based on which I value more, the mandolin wins for sure. And I do love my SUV with 200K miles on it.

[MissingString]

"There is currently another thread on the boards, talking about a get together of Mandolin Cafe members . . . but based on this thread, there aren't enough of us with decent cars to make the trip!"

That's funny!

[LadysSolo]

Which vehicle? My mandolins are worth more that my older vehicle, but worth less than the newer one (but I don't play an Ellis either! LOL!!)

[Mike Snyder]

OK, how about this? Exact same amount payed for my Mike Black A4 As for my residence.

[Louise NM]

Right now the car is worth more, since I parked the 1993 and replaced it with a 2010 a couple of years ago. Ask again in a few years and it will probably have changed.

[allenhopkins]

Well, I depend on my car to get me to gigs, with PA, instruments, etc., so I have to have something reliable. Pretty sure my 2010 Honda Element would fetch more on the market than any one (or two, or three) of the hodgepodge of instruments -- including mandolins -- that I own.

I've never paid five figures for an instrument, and doubt any one of mine is worth five figures. The Honda's worth five figures, IMHO. So, include me out...

[pops1]

There is currently another thread on the boards, talking about a get together of Mandolin Cafe members . . . but based on this thread, there aren't enough of us with decent cars to make the trip!

Now that made me laugh.

[lukmanohnz]

My 2005 Prius has 210K miles on it and was totaled in a rear-ender last year. I had it repaired just enough to make it street-legal so I could get a salvage title on it. I'm not sure what would fetch more in a sale at this point - my car or the Savannah SF-100 that was my first mando. But I'm confident that my Northfield M is worth more than both of them combined.

[foldedpath]

Well, I depend on my car to get me to gigs, with PA, instruments, etc., so I have to have something reliable. Pretty sure my 2010 Honda Element would fetch more on the market than any one (or two, or three) of the hodgepodge of instruments -- including mandolins -- that I own.

I was going to make that point unless someone else did first, so let's hear it for transportation as part of the whole picture.

My S.O. and I went to an evening house session a couple of days ago, a 50 minute drive away, over a two-lane rural highway that's dark at night. Looks like we're going to do that once a week now. We also attend a monthly session a little further away on the same roads. For St. Patrick's, we're doing a gig that's 45 minutes drive in a different direction, over two-lane, high speed and dark roads.

Our 2005 Subaru Forester gets us safely to sessions where we enjoy playing music with our friends. It's just as important as any of our instruments. Heck, it's more important. I'd sell off one of my remaining guitars, PA gear and recording gear, if it meant I could still be mobile.

I've owned expensive cars in the past, but we've downsized now and just thinking of it as transportation. At this point, I'm old enough to start looking forward to self-driving cars, although I fear I'm not quite old enough to take advantage of the full roll-out of those things.

[Jess L.]

... if you can't afford an $20,000 car then you probably can't afford a $20,000 mandolin either. ...

Except it's easier to afford a $20,000 car than a $20,000 mandolin, because cars are often financed by banks (monthly payments over a period of several years), which 'encourages' people to buy things they perhaps couldn't afford otherwise. A $20,000 car isn't that big of a deal nowadays, especially considering that more and more buyers nowadays are willing to risk spreading the payments out over a godawfully-long number of years. (Not particularly recommended, but that's another topic.)

Whereas mandolins are often one-time cash sales. Not something you make payments on for years.

I wonder how many banks would show much financing enthusiasm if a person wanted to buy a $20,000 mandolin instead of a $20,000 car?

Some banks seem to be practically falling all over themselves to offer low-interest new-car loans, but I'm not so sure they'd so easily offer that same amount of money for a mandolin - my guess is that a prospective mandolin buyer would have to put up some other type of collateral. (Not sure, haven't tried, don't intend to, have no wish to take out a loan for a musical instrument.)

Anyway, I doubt that our local bank's loan-officer even knows what a mandolin is.

[Jess L.]

... I've owned expensive cars in the past, but we've downsized now and just thinking of it as transportation. ...

I've owned expensive mandolins (and other instruments) in the past, but have downsized and now just think of musical instruments as utilitarian objects that produce certain sounds...

[tburcham]

For me, its not even close, I looked the Black Book value of my car with 168000 miles and gave a value of $1460. My mandolins are multiples of this😂

[pops1]

I can't afford an expensive car or a bank loan. I buy my cars the same way I buy my mandolins, I save up for them.

Now my tractor was the same price as my mandolin, does that count?

[Homer Savard]

Yup

[Roger Moss]

I don't even have a license to drive - but I don't have a license to play mandolin either, sooo...

[Br1ck]

If you live in LA like my daughter does, it would be very hard to play music more than your driving time. She spends more time driving to gigs than playing them.

[mandocaster]

These threads are kind of fun, I guess. There seem to be a lot of them with a similar theme lately. What's next? "How much do you make?" "Do you own a Rolex?"

[Roger Moss]

My 2005 Prius has 210K miles on it and was totaled in a rear-ender last year. I had it repaired just enough to make it street-legal so I could get a salvage title on it. I'm not sure what would fetch more in a sale at this point - my car or the Savannah SF-100 that was my first mando. But I'm confident that my Northfield M is worth more than both of them combined.

lol

[MikeZito]

These threads are kind of fun, I guess. There seem to be a lot of them with a similar theme lately. What's next? "How much do you make?" "Do you own a Rolex?"

I am willing to bet that very, very VERY few MC members own a mandolin that costs as much as this Rolex:

https://timepieceperfection.com/role...oaAunWEALw_wcB