Another was a bowlback that separated at the neck in its 65th year. I lost one mandolin through stupidity - left in a hot car for a day and it pulled itself apart. The I have been playing for a while, a long while. Why does it keep happening to me? I dunno, maybe it's a karma thing, but you guys must smash a mandolin from time to time, don't you? Hope you're charging enough to cover it comfortably! But it does seem to me that $500 annually apiece in loss and damage is, well, pretty significant. I bet you and your partner put on a really good show, and I applaud the perseverance that keeps you putting out the music for 15+ years. So the coffeehouses, concerts, farm markets and libraries that make up a lot of my itinerary today, don't offer many dangers to me or my eqiuipment. performance schedule, with a 9-to-5 day job. On the other hand, I gave up playing bars quite a while ago, since I couldn't reconcile a 9 p.m.-2 a.m. Oddly enough, I still have most of the instruments I started with - those that haven't left through trade-ins - and while I've broken or lost some mic stands, guitar stands, cables etc., I've only had one instrument damaged: a Gibson F-2 that got a broken headstock when a drunk punched me out in a Brockport NY coffeehouse in 1973. In 40+ years of playing out, I doubt I've had one-tenth of the "normal wear and tear" you're listing. ![]() Are you an Irish duo that plays a bunch of rowdy Irish bars? Yeah, it sounds like quite a bit to me, Tim.
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