I don’t play the mandolin.  However, I’m going to learn (like the unicycle I have yet to finish learning how to ride – but its hard to practice in the snow we’ve been having).  I got an inexpensive mandolin online.  But its bridge was more warped than Pauly Shore.  That is to say that its very, very much like a human being, only not quite right.  Wait, mandolin bridges are not like humans, but they are like shaped pieces of wood.  Shaped pieces of wood that should probably not be twisted like licorice.  Twisted pieces of rosewood that shouldn’t look like this:

I ordered a new bridge from some online music store (which hasn’t arrived yet).  Total money spent?  $37.00.  Yeah for cheap learning instruments.  Once I get familiar with it, I’ll have to save up and get a top dollar mandolin.  One like one of these.