Put two blue chips on your eyes to pay the ferryman and hide one in your mouth to play with.
Jamie
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. Logan Pearsall Smith, 1865 - 1946
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You could always have your spouse hide a few BC picks in your casket so you could take them with you ! Gene Autry ( if you're old enough to remember him ) always said he wanted to take his money with him when he died ! So, after he did die, his widow , Jackie, wrote out a check to Gene for over three hundred thousand dollars and placed it in the casket with him !
Mandolin Eschatology:... another reason I bought a Silverangel
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
Well, not mandolins (and other musical instruments) only, I want all my pets with me (past and present) to make it TRULY Heaven! Besides, without my cats there, who will sleep in the Mandolin cases while we practice?
I'm assuming that the strings would be 'eternal strings' & last for eternity ?. That WOULD be heaven - NO string changes required !,
Ivan
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
When he was once asked of dogs go to Heaven, the great philosopher/theologian Thomas Aquinas once said something along the lines of: 'Heaven is a place of great joy, and dogs bring people great joy - so dogs may go to Heaven.'
Given the nature of Aquinas' works, I believe it is perfectly safe to assume that he was not making a serious theological statement about Heaven and dogs . . . but just beware that even though, as you pass though the Pearly Gates, you may be handed a custom-made, perfectly-intonated mandolin with strings that last for all eternity - your heavenly jam session may include a few banjos, accordions, bag pipes, cow bells and even a few folks playing a comb with wax paper. Thankfully however, everybody will be in tune, the singer will remember all of the words, the harmony vocals will be tight and perfect, nobody will argue about who gets to take the lead, and everybody in the audience will be paying full attention to the music and will be truly appreciative and supportive of what you are doing. Now, THAT would be Heaven!
We have mandolins here. I think a bit of Heaven came to earth!
One of my mandolins sounds and plays like it was made there.
I never fail at anything, I just succeed at doing things that never work....
Fylde Touchstone Walnut Mandolin.
Gibson Alrite Model D.
Hell sounds like so much more fun, with a better selection of instruments, better musicians and better company. I’m going there if I get a choice!
The way I figger it, mandolinists will be hanging out with mandolinists, or grassers will be with other grassers, and ya, accordionists will be with the accordionists, and we'll all be thinking that we're in heaven – the concepts of "heaven" and "hell" might just boil down to one's perspective.
If they hand me a harp in heaven, I'm aleavin' going where there's mandolins, banjos and beer!
One thing about heaven, you won’t be getting any guitar lessons from Robert Johnson.
Living’ in the Mitten
In heaven, we'll all be like "I am SO satisfied with my mandolin, I am just going to play this sucker and I never need to worry that there could be a better one somewhere, even though I'm in this place full of the world's most famous and talented (dead obviously) luthiers with the finest materials and tools available to them at all times and they are all totally at peace with themselves and doing their best work, nonetheless I am entirely content - wait am I still me? how does this work? I'm very confused."
Now-------- isn't this thread way more interesting than " Which pick ", Which strings", Oval or F holes" ?
I plan to set aside the first billion years of my eternity to study Bach. With Bach there all the time helping - because he will have eternity available too so why not. I'll probably get quite good after the first couple epochs have passed.
All of you folks have to get past all of us trumpet players, starting with Gabriel, of course. There’s room for all of us.
Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to -- both have their advantages, "heaven for climate, hell for company!" Mark Twain
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
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