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Andrew Ferguson
Dec-19-2007, 1:38pm
Hi there, just thought I would jump in and say hello from New Zealand. Are there any other kiwi's on here?
I've been playing guitar for about 25 years, and have just, in the last 8 months or so, come around to the mandolin. And it has ignited a passion to learn and play that I don't remember since trying to learn Led Zep riffs 2 decades ago!
Just wanted to introduce myself after enough lurking, and say thanks for a great site. Excellent resource!
Andrew.
Rick Lindstrom
Dec-19-2007, 1:42pm
Welcome aboard, and glad to have you.
I guess you're getting ready for summer Down There http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif
Rick
bkhooper
Dec-19-2007, 1:59pm
A very hearty welcome from North Carolina!!!
ken Hooper
JEStanek
Dec-19-2007, 2:03pm
G'Day! And Welcome, from Pennsylvania (East Coast USA)
Jamie
Santiago
Dec-19-2007, 4:07pm
Welcome from New York.
billkilpatrick
Dec-19-2007, 4:34pm
G'Day!
i thought that was spelled "GDAE"
harwilli55
Dec-19-2007, 4:51pm
Kia ora kosigus,
Haere mai to the Mandolin Cafe!!! I have friends in NZ from years ago whom have always been good to me. The mandolin will take over your world now that you have found an instrument that is intuitive in it's simplicity and structure. Have fun joining the Cafe community and the mandolin world.
Ka kite ano
Harlan
Bottom of the world? I thought you might be writing from the Antarctica.
Welcome on board from New York City.
mandroid
Dec-19-2007, 5:01pm
Kia Ora, Mate.
Did anybody out there take their Mandolin to the Antarctic Polar Station?
nobody gets further south than that !
twaaang
Dec-19-2007, 5:06pm
Your northernmost response so far (unless I'm totally wrong about Siena, Italy) -- greetings from northern Vermont. #Need any snow?
(oops, forget Siena: Astoria Oregon has me beat handily) #-- #Paul
sam60
Dec-19-2007, 11:35pm
G'day from across the ditch, I wont start about the cricket!!!!! Look forward to hearing about the kiwi connection
dcoxmandolin
Dec-19-2007, 11:53pm
Hello from the high country!
Darrell
Denver, Co http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif
stevenmando
Dec-20-2007, 12:03am
Welcome for Portland Oregon
Eastman 515f
bowlback
frankenstein
Dec-20-2007, 12:21am
Andrew, i'm an aussie, does that count ?? welcome... pete..
swampstomper
Dec-20-2007, 12:57am
Northernmost response here from the Netherlands (52N, Vermont's N border is only a wimpy 45N). "Bottom of the World"? Don't you have those inverted maps at school that show the S Pole at the top?? Anyway, welcome to the board.
Ivan Kelsall
Dec-20-2007, 1:12am
Welcome aboard mate !. You'll find the Mandolin totally addictive. I've been playing for nearly two & a half years now & i can't remember playing as much since i began teaching myself the Banjo,43 years ago. As for the enjoyment - priceless !,
Saska
Andrew Ferguson
Dec-20-2007, 12:53pm
Thanks for all the reply's.
Was quite a surprise to see so #much Te Reo used as well! Nice Harlan.
I won't mention the cricket, thanks Shane.
Pete, I think we're all aussies at heart, until you change the imigration laws!
We're gearing up for a summer christmas, though, as I look out the window its raining!
Have a good one people!
Andrew.
JeffD
Dec-20-2007, 11:29pm
Hi there, just thought I would jump in and say hello from New Zealand.
Welcome from NY.
It is amazing when you think about this internet. Here we are on opposite sides of the globe, and your text is right side up to me.
I have pondered this late into the egg nog, and nearest I can figure is that there has to be a whole bunch of text flipping servers that make this possible. Either that or all you folks have just learned how to read upside down.
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Happy Christmas and welcome aboard.
Mike Bunting
Dec-21-2007, 12:18am
Well then, welcome from Alberta, Canada-maybe the northernmost so far. 53 degrees 34 whatevers north.
Sonomabob
Dec-21-2007, 12:37am
Hello Andrew:
I have the bug too. Greetings from Sonoma, CA. There is a small but vocal Kiwi community around here as well as Murphy's Irish Pub with Blue grass on the weekends.
Enjoy.
Bob
jferg9
Dec-21-2007, 12:58am
Heh Andrew.......can't let mike claim the Northernmost greeting....:-) I am a transplanted Canadian working in NW Alaska......in the village of Gambell on the NW tip of St. Lawrence Island a mere 45 Km off the Russian coast in the Bering Sea. I spend many a dark, cold, windswept evening with just me and my Gibson F-9 plucking away in the wilds of NW Alaska.....I love it.
Welcome to the Cafe.
Peace,
Jim
Klaus Wutscher
Dec-21-2007, 2:01am
Greetings and welcome from Vienna!
This site is a goldmine of information on mandolins and music in general. Enjoy!
Robert Moreau
Dec-21-2007, 2:13am
Hello From Tokyo! (half way around the globe, going up!)
This cafe is great, isn't it? I've learned more here about mandos then I could have from any book! If we added up the cumulative years of 8 string experience the members bring to this board I'm sure the number would be truly staggering.
Rob