My last post having been censored by the elves, I will moderate my language to the extent that I will merely observe that it is forbidden by statue to have more than two melodeons in any one room. In this context a shop is classified as a room, and the surplus instruments are liable to be removed by the CRS (Captive Reed Society) to be converted into fire bellows, which are permissible under the aforesaid statue as they are mostly silent.

Banjos are exempt from any such sanction but tend to breed prolifically when placed in proximity to each other, hence the over supply of mandolin banjos dating from the turn of the 19th/20th century. This tragedy happened because in 1897 that notorious banjo retailer, John Alvey Turner, turned a blind alvey to a cluster of pubescent bisexual zither banjos with disasterous results. Were I a shareholder in Hobgoblin, I would sell out now, before things get any worse.