Harley Benton HBMA-50E Mandolin BK

If you have a fancy for the appearance, buy this mandolin, but if you are a musician, it is worthless for the following reasons: The bridge needs fine carpentry for a decent sound. Bridge is not shaped to sit properly on the sound board. The tuners make lot of rattling (like in a old bus) unless you fix them with some glue. Just tightening the fixing screws is not enough. And the tuners are of very cheap quality, tuning is not consistent and smooth - pitch 'jumps'. The stock strings are not good. The second one snapped even at the first tuning (I did not over do it). In spite of all the 'tinkering' including bridge-compensation the tuning checked at the frets is not perfect. After doing all these works, the sound will be satisfactory. I could get the stuff after waiting for more than twenty five days. Before, I had some doubts and the staff did not even had the courtesy to call me back. I was misled by them, who said this was a very good piece. If you still want to try this mandolin please see this link for tinkering work that the instrument needs. It will be of use .https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G3AZ0_sB8A