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I'm soon to be in need of more strings, so a Gryphon visit is in order. Can't go in there with this hanging on the wall. Please help me out.
NFI
https://shop.gryphonstrings.com/prod...olin-mf5-55391
I'm soon to be in need of more strings, so a Gryphon visit is in order. Can't go in there with this hanging on the wall. Please help me out.
NFI
Silverangel A
Arches F style kit
1913 Gibson A-1
Jim
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Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
Oh dear, I really shouldn't have looked at that. It's really lovely.
-Dave
Flatiron A
Way too many other instruments
I've taken the pledge. I passed on something really neat last month, which somebody else eventually bought.
You can do it.
If I can do it, you can do it.
Bring only cash and your driver's license when you buy your strings. If you see the mandolin, play a Jedi mind trick on yourself and decide that you really don't like the color.
Or I could just play the Ellis, recoil in horror at the price, and rationalize how reasonable the Collings is. I can see me now, honey, I did the responsible thing, put the Ellis I really wanted away and bought the much cheaper Collings instead. I'll take you to Paris with all the money I saved.
Silverangel A
Arches F style kit
1913 Gibson A-1
Okay - I'll take it . . . can somebody loan me $6,940.00?
It's lovely, and would make a nice match with my honey-amber A-style Collings, but since I am an A-style person, I can't really help you out. You'll just have to buy it.
-- Don
"Music: A minor auditory irritation occasionally characterized as pleasant."
"It is a lot more fun to make music than it is to argue about it."
2002 Gibson F-9
2016 MK LFSTB
1975 Suzuki taterbug (plus many other noisemakers)
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[Our recent arrival]
I've been married to the same lovely lady for 36 years and I know what fate would await me if that showed up in our house. Order your strings on-line my friend. Though it is a beauty, huh?
But you see, I have to support my local brick and mortar. My strategy has been to buy fifty bucks worth of strings at a time, which is about a four to six month supply. I really can walk out with just strings. That mandolin floats my boat in so many ways. I'm not a fan of the typical sunburst, I love one piece backs, and quilt or birdseye. So it has a bunch of what I'd like in a mandolin, plus it's taken me two years for the signature Collings tone to grow on me. Two to three visits to Gryphon a year is reasonably safe.
But if I were to be tempted, that mandolin would do it.
Silverangel A
Arches F style kit
1913 Gibson A-1
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
''I'm soon to be in need of more strings, so a Gryphon visit is in order. Can't go in there with this hanging on the wall. Please help me out.''
tell me the gauge ...I'll send you some strings . you're welcome
Such a beauty! There's only 2 things that I don't like about this mandolin: the price and the pick guard. Assuming I could justify the $, just how is that pick guard attached? looks like it is floating at the bridge and possibly glued to the neck? can it it be cleanly removed? I just may have to stop in on Saturday to get a close up look.
Steve Lavelle
'93 Flatiron Performer F
Customized Eastwood Mandocaster (8str)
My heavens, I shouldn’t have looked.
That’s a gorgeous instrument
Doc Ivory
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I just got my first Collings--a Honey Amber MF. It's amazing. I can't believe what I've been missing. The idea that this one exists makes me a little sick.
Ironically, I have played a handful of Collings mandolins over the years and the only one that appealed to me mostly from tone and playability was a Honey Amber A-5. I compared it to a few others that Acoustic Music had at that time but that one would have been then one had I been looking.
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
This is your best course of action. You really want us to collectively talk you into buying the Collings. It's used, so you'll pay way, way less than for a new one. With the Ellis as your cover, you've got this. Go play it. Have a look at this and it looks all the more reasonable.
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