I personally an not an impulse buyer, I research things and weight options before I buy something for me. I have been wanting to replace my very inexpensive mandolin with a better one and have been researching for several months which mandolin I was going to purchase and from whom, along with the upgrades to the mandolin. I was going to buy it right after Christmas, until, watching Michael O'gieblyn, he was demoing a violin and was gushing all over it, the wife walked in while I was watching the demo and said she like the sound and the looks of it and I was silly to not buy it instead of a mandolin since I play the fiddle more than the mandolin, and she thought I needed a back up in case something happened to my old antique fiddle. Then she taunted me as she left the room, saying, I was too stubborn to buy it, because it wasn't my idea and that I was silly not to buy it!!!!!!!!

Well I showed her!!!! and bought that Fiddle, boy was she surprised when she asked later that day if I had bought that fiddle and I said yes I had! Her only comment was that I had finally listened to her and it was about time!! And I must say it is a really, really good looking fiddle and with such a different voice from my old antique fiddle, I do believe when it opens up it is going to be a very good sounding fiddle.

SO BEWARE of Michael O'gieblyn's demos they may make you do things your not normally prone to do!!!!