Any Mandolin Players Here

[danersen]

Hello All,

 

These lovely mandolins are headed for new homes with thoughtful players who recognize that there indeed variations in quality and relative value among mandolins just as most of us here recognize that there are differences in quality and relative value among concertinas.

 

And for the record, Hooves - in my opinion, your comments are not "cricket." They are disrespectful, exaggerated, erroneous, disingenuous, and patently offensive. I will appreciate your refraining from your reckless and careless rhetoric in reply to any content that I may post in the future. I'm glad others compliment you on your playing. Perhaps you would do well to concentrate on your playing and abandon your irrational chatter.

 

Be Well,

Dan

 

 

Edited July 17, 2009 by danersen

[Ken_Coles]

No problems as far as I'm concerned. Good luck, musical choices are never simple.

 

Ken

[TonyRussell]

I think you should play concertina and mando! Tony.

PS - hope you've posted these on a mando site too?

[Hooves]

good luck on that. 18 grand in today's market, can't see that happening.

 

Weber mandolins are some of the best mandolins out there, however as a mandolin player of 25 years I can say assuredly they ain't worth that much, in fact, no instrument on planet earth is worth more than 2 grand.

 

I play a Tacoma M1 and M3, not in the class of Webers, but I get compliments on them all the time. And they sound good to me, one is better for bluegrass the other for folk and blues. I paid $700 for one, $400 for the other.

 

Weber Octave Mandolins sound more liek guitars than Octave mandolins, what's the point of that? My Johnson Ma-550 is 10x better for a fraction of the cost, if you actaully wanta mandolin sound and not a fancy "guitar".

 

I'm happy to own instruments of lesser value, I think of the greatest mandolin players and guess what, they didn't play 4 thousand dollar Webers... Yank Rachell the most famous Blues Mandolin player played a Harmony Mandolin! Pick one up on eBay for less than 300 bucks.

 

A good musican can make any instrument sound like a 10 thousand dollar work of art.

 

Truly I sympathize with those of you caught up in the "gotta have the best possible instrument" and now face trying to recoupe the outrageous buying cost.

 

For those of you contemplating instrument purchases, let this poor soul's predicament be a lesson to you.

[Azalin]

The instruments has been sold days ago, if this is what the "Sold" label at the top of the page means.

[Bill N]

...I can say assuredly they ain't worth that much, in fact, no instrument on planet earth is worth more than 2 grand. ..

 

...Truly I sympathize with those of you caught up in the "gotta have the best possible instrument" and now face trying to recoupe the outrageous buying cost....

 

....For those of you contemplating instrument purchases, let this poor soul's predicament be a lesson to you.

 

Don't want to start a flame war here, but are these comments really cricket on the Buy & Sell forum? This is a long-standing member, a polite and respectful posting, and it has the OK of a moderator. Certainly I appreciate it when people question suspicious offerings, but that is clearly not the case here. And with a donation going to the operation of concertina.net, we should all wish the seller well. If they "ain't worth that much" to anyone out there, he'll soon know.

[Hooves]

Don't want to start a flame war here, but are these comments really cricket on the Buy & Sell forum?

 

yes they are "cricket":

 

I am a potential buyer, a mandolin player, and providing useful advice in a time of economic hardship.

 

Really you should be thanking me.

 

Apparently the instruments were sold, you should have offered me a wager, I would have taken it.

 

what does the Weber corporation do? -

 

hand select trees with druidic rituals at the equinox, cut the trees with gold embossed saw blades forged from meteorites, glue the pieces together with a mixture of Holy water, balm of Gilead and the tears of Mother Terresa, use diamond and saphhire dust to polish the frets, buff the finish with silken cloth weaved from strands carried one at a time by camels from the distant orient, and then string them with silver coated white tiger whiskers?

 

I suspect that each and every Weber mandolin has a piece of the cross inlaid or utilizes leftover Ark planks.

[danersen]

I never cease to be amazed at how erroneous infallible thinking can be.

 

Be Well,

Dan

[danersen]

Original posting edited and updated.

16 July 2009

Be Well,

Dan