There was still daylight, shining softly and with a tarnish, like the lining of a shell, and the carbon lamps lifted at the corners were on in the light, and the locusts were started, and the fire flies were out, and a few frogs' were flopping in the dewy grass, by the time the fathers and the children came out. Supper was at six and was over by half past. The men were mostly small businessmen, one or two very modestly executives, one or two worked with their hands, most of them clerical, and most of them between thirty and forty-five. There were few good friends among the grown people, and they were not poor enough for the other sort of intimate acquaintance, but everyone nodded and spoke, and even might talk short times, trivially, and at the two extremes of the general or the particular, and ordinarily next-door neighbors talked quite a bit when they happened to run into each other, and never paid calls. There were fences around one or two of the houses, but mainly the yards ran into each other with only now and then a low hedge that wasn't doing very well. These were soft-wooded trees, poplars, tulip trees, cottonwoods. middle-sized gracefully fretted wood houses built in the late nineties and early nineteen hundreds, with small front and side and more spacious back yards, and trees in the yards, and porches. It was a little bit mixed sort of block, fairly solidly lower middle class, with one or two juts apiece on either side of that. We are talking now of summer evenings in Knoxville, Tennessee in the time that I lived there so successfully disguised to myself as a child. The title, like all the rest of the book, is James Agee's own. However, in the opinion of the editors and of the publisher, A Death in the Family is a near-perfect work of art. How much polishing or re-writing he might have done is impossible to guess, for he was a tireless and painstaking writer. It was not a part of the manuscript which Agee left, but the editors would certainly have urged him to include it in the final draft. The short section ' Knoxville: Summer of 1915', which serves as a sort of prologue, has been added. This arrangement also obviated the necessity of the editors having to compose any transitional material. It seemed presumptuous to try to guess where he might have inserted them. It was finally decided to print these in italics and to put them after Parts I and II. The ending of A Death in the Family had been reached sometime before Agee's death, and the only editorial problem involved the placing of several scenes outside the time span of the basic story. There has been no re-writing, and nothing has been eliminated except for a few cases of first-draft material which he later re-worked at greater length, and one section of seven-odd pages which the editors were unable satisfactorily to fit into the body of the novel. This novel, upon which he had been working for many years, is presented here exactly as he wrote it. I'm only allowed a certain amount on the listing itself.Īlso, please message me with any questions or concerns.James Agee died suddenly May 16, 1955. It just needs a little TLC and it will be perfect, but you could perform a show with it right now. They tune up and down and stay where you want them to, easily. It seems like it might want to separate soon about that point for a few inches, but as of now it is intact. I see no real separation of the top or back at all, though there is some concern about where the Pic 11 scratch is. It does show finger grease marks that can easily be removed with cleaning. The neck seems to be in great shape to me (NOTE: I am just a Bassist not a Luthier). These don't effect the performance but they need to be pointed out. It has what I guess I would call weather cracks up and down the back of the neck (see pics 7, 9, and 10).
#The flatiron mandolin 1993 plus#
It has all the little scratches and such you would think a 28 year old mandolin may have, plus it has a major scratch on it's lower right hand side (see pic 11). The strings have been on it for at least that long.
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It has been sitting for at least 5 years.
It's in fairly good shape, and could play a show right now, if need be, but ultimately it does need some TLC.
#The flatiron mandolin 1993 full#
It has a very full and loud sound, one of the loudest mandolin sounds I've ever heard out of an acoustic mandolin. There is also a tag on the inside neckblock which states, "The 2nd label states the Mandolin is made from solid woods and should not be exposed to extreme temperatures and humidity." It also lists the recommended string gauges for each string. This is a 1993 The Flatiron Model 3MB Mandolin that was made in Bozeman, MT. Comes with nice, probably original, hard shell case (plush interior). 1993 The Flatiron Model 3MB Mandolin Made in Bozeman Sounds Great Needs some TLC
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