b'Adrian Edmondson and his strange instrument.This is all Troy Donockleys fault. Ibut he likes to change to mandolaStrange Instrument I think he calls it could use that line to start quite aquite often, and he likes to play loud. a Twodola few of my stories, my sister Mary hasTroy persuaded him that I was theIt took a lot of thought and still not forgiven Troy for magicallyman to speak to, and we all metexperiment, but it worked out well. hiding a playing card under her footup at work. I made rough woodenThe body is made from mahogany, at my last wedding. Moira said it wasmockups of a solid body twowith internal chambers and false my last wedding. neck mandolin/mandola, properlysoundholes.I made solid brassI digress.Troy and Adrian - Ade toweighted and balanced, and wetailpieces, for rear string fitting his drinking friends both have familyspent the afternoon changing bitsthrough recessed brass blocks and in Yorkshire, and share a passion forand pieces until it seemed to do thebrass tubes soldered into heavy Laurel and Hardy, I must introducejob. brass stop tailpieces on the front, all them to Gary Potter one day. Then we went for a curry and a fewgold plated. The back is laminated Ade of course, comes from a historypints. I was determined to show offwith Macassar Ebony, just because of alternative comedy but has alwaysmy pub- the first co -operativeI could.nurtured musical aspirations. Hepublic house in England, with its ownThe necks are slightly staggered, plays many instruments, all selfMicrobrewery. Ades first question-but parallel, and the tuners carefully taught, and has a habit of buyingdoes it have a real log fire? spaced to avoid interference new ones after a drinking session.Well, the log fire had been replacedbetween them. Two custom-made Just like me, but I buy paintings. with a cast iron stove a week beforeHeadway pickups feed two PreampOne of his musical projects is Thethis, and on the night we went, allboxes, and an AB switch finishes the Idiot Bastard Band with Neil Innes,of the beers were off. To coverjob.Rowland Rivron and Phil Jupitus. up our deep disappointment, weAde is exceedingly pleased. He doesnt Ade has access to a list of strangedrank them anyway, Troy entertainedhave to play so hard now to get the names for bands, his other ventureeverybody with more magic, andsound he wants, so he breaks less is The Bad Shepherds, which hethen we went home to count howstrings, and he doesnt annoy anybody formed with the help of Troy, takingmany empty whisky bottles I waswhen he is practicing around the house.on third and fourth members as thegoing to have.I was going to have fancy takes them, and it often does. several more than the previous night. They play punk songs on folkAde challenged me- he thought I instruments. Not as a gag, butwouldnt have a particular whisky. He because they really like the noise. was wrong. Ade has based his part in theThree days later, when we all felt a Shepherds around the mandolin,little better, I started work on Ades 240'