I have fell in love!

[csstanley]

I am a newbie to playin the mando. Started back at Christmas and I love it. I've nearly given up my guitar playing for the Mando.

I got a Johnson Savannah F-model MF-100. The wife bought it for me, which it is a nice looking Mando and I reckon a good beginner Mando. But I have found what I'm working for last night.

The Gibson F-9. I LOVE IT. So now I got something to work for. The only problem is that the better half told me that I can get one when she gets her Baby Grand.

Whats a man to do?!?!?!?!

[mpeknox]

Buy that gal a piano!

[mandoman4807]

csstanley,
I can relate! I played guitar since I was 12 years old. At 45, I started playing a mandolin I bought for my wife that she lost interest in. Now almost three years and 5 mandolins later it is what I definitely play the most.




Darrell

[fatt-dad]

Does Johnson or Hondo make a baby grand?

f-d

[Dru Lee Parsec]

Hey guy, I also played an F9 last year that I fell in love with. They're great mandolins and the one I played sounded amazing.

So how much does a grand piano cost?

[csstanley]

they can run you anywhere from 4 or 5000 up to 15,000 and 20,000's.

I could probably find one from a church for cheaper.

[J. Mark Lane]

Just get her one of these:

http://www.liveandlearn.com/pianos/babygrand.html

And bring home your new F-9 on the same day.

"But honey, isn't that a baby grand? It sure looks like one."

[ronlane3]

Mark, For that price get her the black AND the white one. Then get the F-9.

[pickinpox]

Somewhat analagous to the ongoing A vs. F controversy, baby grand pianos will cost much more than an equivalant vertical piano. The corollary to that statement is, for a given price the vertical piano will be a much better instrument than the grand. #It just costs so much more to build a grand piano....sound familiar? #The one advantage to grands (other than aesthetics) is that the action (even in poorer grands) will repeat faster. #It's parts rely more on gravity and have extra levers to insure a quick tremolo #

[J. Mark Lane]

Well, isn't the term "grand piano" more of function of the kind of action that is used, rather than the "horizontal" vs "vertical" thing? I mean, I'm pretty sure I used to own a vertical grand. Or am I just ... nuts?

Mark

[SternART]

There is a Monteleone called the "Baby Grand" a two point version of his Grand Artist......

[Lee]

If you have a Gibson then by all rights she gets a Steinway.
http://www.steinway.com/factory/tour.shtml
They're not really that expensive when you figure out how much more you're getting for about the same price as a pair of DMM's.

[Bob Kellett]

I also started playing mandolin at 47 years old after playing guitar for 30 years. I have since sold all my guitars except 1 lonely 12 string that never gets played anymore!

[pickinpox]

The term "Vertical Grand" is just a selling gimmick (often even cast into the iron plates of the pianos. There is no difference whatsoever between an upright piano and a vertical grand. Other terms like "Improved French Repeating Action" were often used. Only 3 companies made actions for all of the pianos made in the US from the turn of the century until the demise of American piano manufacture. They were: Wood & Brooks; Pratt & Read and Wessel, Nickel & Gross. The two exceptions were Steinway (they built their own actions) and Kranich & Bach (they built really weird actions). All used nearly identical and often interchangeable parts. Of the three only Wessel, Nickel & Gross used extra parts in their actions built for the Charles M. Stieff piano Co. in Baltimore, but these parts were not to help repetition but to help eliminate the annoying lost motion when the soft pedal is pressed. Probably more than you ever wanted to know about piano actions. Sorry for no mandolin content in this post.

[csstanley]

Lee, I gotta Johnson so the equivalent to that on the piano would be a Radio Shack Keyboard right? No really, your exactly right and I do hope to get her one someday. What was that Lester Flatt song? "A hundred years from now?" Oh wait, he was talking about somethingelse, oh well.

J. Mark, uh huh, if I came home with that, me and the dog would be fightin over who gets the most hay in the dog house. But I don't reckon it'd hurt to try. At least not hurt to bad.