![]() ![]() I remember scoffing at the idea a mandolin could be worth even $1,000. These are easily $110,000 or $120,000 more affordable than a Loar. A pro I know (you would know his name) jokes that the builder, Don Macrostie, as access to alien technology. I have no interest in this instrument and don't know the person selling it, but Red Diamond mandolins are truly special. If you're wondering what there is in the thin-air realm that might be worth paying that kind of dough, check this out. I'm much more successful setting a low bar. I've reached the level of tolerable much faster. ![]() Yes, I bought a cheaper mandolin to see if I'd like it. I get to relive what buying my Silverangel did for me. That is why someone posting here just starting out buying something like a Ratliff Country Boy or a Silverangel Econo A gives me unabashed joy. I'd bet you a hamburger that if you take two averagely equal beginners, start one out with a Kentucky KM 150, or Eastman 305, both worthy mandolins, and the other with a Collings MT, or even an MF 5, and at the end of a year the one with the better instrument will be better because the mandolin would have caused him or her to play a lot more. The quickest way to self enjoyment is the best instrument you can buy comfortably, perhaps even out of your comfort zone. My mission is to stamp out such thinking. Buy what you want to for whatever reasons but this one. Please ditch the notion you have to reach a level of ability to deserve a fine instrument. ![]()
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