Skipjack,

At your suggestion, I'll be bringing the mandola as I don't play it nearly enough and like the sound.

This has now given me a headache though.

For it needs new strings and of course spares, and loopies are hard (let's say impossible) to get in Brussels.

So now I have to microsurgically remove 16 balls!

...and I don't have any veterinary training whatsoever...

mooman (still looking for his since Lady McMoo ran off with them)