Mandolin in the woods: Miracles still may happen.

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It was my already quite old dream: to have and try a mandolin.

As a common hobby player collector I could not let myself to buy a brand new instrument just to give it a try.

So, I started to dig the CraigList and Kijiji  in a hope that someone may want to get rid of his mandolin which is just collecting the dust in some cabinet.

Especial gain in such hunt is if someone gives it away for free. No luck. While I know it’s possible.

Now. Slowly. My wife and me went from our good friend Allan’s place deep in the woods north of Lachute, Quebec.

It was around 11pm. Dark as it can be in the woods. The  road was running through the wooden hills. Time by time we were riding through he small summer time communities. “Mandolin!”, – my wife suddenly noticed? “What mandolin?” – I asked.

“There’s a mandolin upon the recycling bin on the side  of the drive way we just passed.”,  she responded. I was too curious just to ignore it. A mandolin? In the woods? At 11pm? Upon the recycle been?  Sounded way too mystical.

So I stopped and backed up. There was a nice looking while way too dusty mandolin upon the bin!

No wonder, I picked it up.

Later, at home the ugly truth came out. Of course, the neck has a crack. But still, it can be glued and fixed.

I believe it’s a cheap Korean brand “Tradition” with serial # M405. Have no idea what is it.

here it is. I had to remove the rusty old string to return the neck to it original position.

Here it is cleaned up and unstrung.