I was over to McCabes guitar shop looking at a new Collings oval holed mandolin (looked great and sounded great too) and was talking to a gent who was also eyeballing it, then who started playing a trinity octave mandolin (black top) which sounded nice and which had a rich sound.

I looked at the cover of Fretboard Journal while talking and listening to him play and saw the same individual with Ben Harper on the cover. Turned out to be David Lindley. Was a nice instrument and quite cheap (roughly $800). David was a nice guy too...

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