Oh, that's a sickening feeling. I dropped my fiddle on a highschool gymnasium floor years ago. It exploded into many parts. They were all collected and humpty dumpty was resurrected, but I've never felt so sick in my life.
I'm sure Steve will put her back together for you next time he is stateside. M On Thu, Dec 18, 2008 at 9:06 AM, mistertaterbug <taterbugmu...@gmail.com>wrote: > > Attention music stand users... > As of yesterday morning, I am the proud owner of what Paul Duff refers > to as the "Monroe Option". Whilst sitting here giving lessons, I > turned around just in time to watch my Gil falling slowly sideways out > of the music stand onto the red oak floorboards. It didn't hit hard > enough to even knock it out of tune, so I thought nothing of it. But > upon closer inspection, I noticed that the headstock looked curved. I > flipped the mandolin around and looked at the back and sure enough, > there it was, a gaping crack. At first there wasn't even a sign of the > break on the front headstock overlay, but as soon as I pushed it back > together a hairline crack appeared. Now there are three distinct > cracks apparent; front, back and top edge, the last right along the > seam where the headstock boards are glued together. No big deal, it's > all there, but still... > > I'm glad I got this over with. Now I can play with wreckless abandon. > Watch how the danged thing is sitting in the stand, folks. > Tater > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugmando@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
