New Mandolin Day - Ellis

[Mike Scaggs]

Ha John! If I end up buying another you can bet it will be an Ellis

[MontanaMatt]

By buying the best I could in the beginning will hopefully save me money in the long run and help me avoid MAS

It will likely delay your next purchase, but if you fall in love with mando, it will increase your enjoyment of the distinct voices different mandoz have, thus leading to the syndrome.
Happy pickin, and future mando collection

[Br1ck]

It has been my experience that once you reach a certain level of goodness, which is an individual subjective level, it takes a great deal more money to gain a small perceptive improvement, a sum most of us could consider excessive.

I know friends that shop the $7k guitar market, when to me I hear very little auditory or playability improvement. Nice instruments for sure, but I bought a used D 35 that works for me. The one thing I learned over the years is the hard fact that playing ability will trump instrument every time. But facing that reality with an Ellis would be very sweet for sure. But then you also reach a point of too little money and too little time and have to resolve to use what you have and get a little better each day and be happy for that.