Of course, all the way home I was racking my brains trying to figure out how I could drain all my savings accounts etc. At that point I think Loars were about $10-12000. Two thousand? I told him to give me the seller's number. I opened it up and saw an F5 and then saw the Loar label.Īt that point Roy said, what do you think it is worth - a thousand? I shook my head. He told me to bring the case from the next room. One day Roy told me that a student of his had a mandolin that she might want to sell.
I was taking lessons from Roy Smeck (yes the one on all the Harmony instruments and the instrution books) back in the mid 1980s.