Buck White's got a piece of nylon cord wrapped around his end pin and through the strap too. Same thing; the strap came off the endpin of his Gil(the one his son-in-law bought him) and went headfirst onto the floor. No damage that I remember him telling me, but he learned the lesson right then. Ah, you think maybe we should all just start playing cheap mandolins and relax?
Nah...<G> Tater On Dec 18, 1:10 pm, "Don Grieser" <adobeinthepi...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was jamming at a festival campsite in Utah when a microburst > windstorm picked up an aluminum camping table and threw it at me and > my Gil. I saw it coming out of the corner of my eye and got my arm > out, but it basically folded around me and the Gil and flapped a few > times. I heard an awful sound, my strings were slack, and my heart > sank. I got it under some light and discovered it had hit the bridge, > knocking it over and digging the bridge base into the top where it got > knocked over. The top wasn't cracked so I got the bridge stood up and > put the strings back on and went back to jamming. This year I had it > in a stand at the edge of a small low stage and was talking to an > audience member after the show and he started gesturing wildly and > knocked it over on it's face. Hard enough to break a string, but no > other damage that I can tell other than a few dings. I've had enough > endpin incidents to keep one hand on it at all times, and have a loop > around the tailpiece now too. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
