From: Colin.Irvine@spamcop.net   
      
   On Tue, 12 Apr 2005 22:33:08 -0600, "SoK66"    
   squeezed out the following:   
      
   >Well, after a couple of hours at my local dealer, plunking incompetenly /   
   >haphazadly on about ten mandolins, I walked out with a custom Weber   
   >Gallatin.Yippeee!!!!!! (I played guitar a bit, too, so the guy didn't think   
   >I was a complete hack...well, maybe he did anyway!)   
   >   
   >It's an F-style spruce  / maple, with a round soundhole. Has an ebony board,   
   >cool adustable ebony bridge and is in sort of a chocolate/maroon color. A   
   >most unusual instrument and well worth the money.   
   >   
   >He had several more expensive Webers, a couple of Collings and a very cool   
   >Breedlove that's styled a bit more radical. I banged a few chords I learned   
   >on the spot on each one an the Gallatin was a cl;ose-call "pick of the   
   >litter".   
      
   Sounds like you did ok. Enjoy!   
      
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   Colin Irvine   
      
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