Should I buy it??

[tnfiddler]

While at a bluegrass festival this weekend, I came across a new 5-string fiddle from a very good luthier and fell in love with it.  It sounds and plays amazing, looks great and is a boomer!  I want this thing so bad but I am trying to decide if I want to buy  it.  I know it will get snatched up really quick.  It's $3,000 and I have the money to buy it, I am just trying to decide to buy it.  The first thing the wife said was, "You don't need it, you can only play one at a time!"  Opinions please, I need to call by at least Wednesday to tell him I want it.  What would my fellow musicians do??

[BigSkyTaylorPlayer]

Now you know better than to ask us bunch of enablers here what to do.........

Can you sell your other fiddle if you get this one, do you even have to sell the older one - multiple fiddles are as good as multiple guitars or ukuleles or.....um........oh heck.....buy it!!!!!

[tnfiddler]

There is NO WAY I would sell my Horner!!  I honestly could never replace it!  My whole thing is convincing the wife to let me get it.  I have the money for it from where I sold my Corvette, but you know how wives are about buying extra toys.  If I hadn't bought my T5 just a few months ago, she probably wouldn't sweat it so too bad.  I am dying here trying to get up enough nerve to tell her I want to get it.  I will keep you posted!!  All of you be sending up prayers for me that I can get a new toy!! 

[Iplay2]

Well, don't you need a backup fiddle?  I mean, everybody has a backup guitar or 12, why not be prudent and get a backup fiddle so you are always prepared.  It is what any good Boy Scout would do.

[jalbert]

You've met two of my three criteria: you've played it, and you have the cash. The third factor is whether a significant other (if applicable) would accept the purchase as well. (Not that I've always followed my own advice on #3...) Go for it.

[jjrpilot-admin]

Yikes...good luck my friend.  Post picts when it comes in.   

[Satsuki]

You know your wife better than we do. What will be the long term fallout from buying it?

[cigarfan]

Tell her you are buying it on the way to the shoe store!

[tnfiddler]

Well, the wife SORTA went off when I told her I wanted to take some of my car money and get it......so, I don't forsee it coming home anytime soon.  Guess, I will just have to make do with my ole' faithful!!  I am probably just gonna take the cash up there next year and if he has another one, I am just gonna buy it and deal with the fallout as it comes!!!  Sorta bummed, but only playing it once, I didn't get that emotionally attached to it.

[S MS Picker]

Just bought another Taylor.710 -L9 Adi over Brazilian,so you know what I'd say LOL
Steve