'Went to Staten Island, Sharon, to buy myself a mandolin' or so sang Joni Mitchell (in Song for Sharon - which I realise is a whole ten verses long. Just goes to show you can never get too much of a good thing!).
So, we went to Staten Island too but mainly to see if the free ferry ride would give us a good enough shot at the Statue of Liberty to save us paying for the pleasure, rather than to but any particular musical instrument.
I did get the family on a bus to find the mandolin shop and we did buy a plectrum or two but thought that $179 for a uke seemed a bit steep for novices of the Clapton Park Ukulele Band.
It was a little stressful having K strumming away on €5000 guitars but the staff seemed amazingly laid back about it - probably cos they are the cheap ones!!
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