After lurking for several weeks, it's time to stick my neck out and not fret that you'll pick on me or think I'm a nut. I'm trying to bridge the major change from working to retirement; after years of being tightly wound, but never completely unstrung (just a little tremulous, knock on wood), I'm geared up for play time.
Ok, got that out of my system.
I got my first mandolin in the late sixties, after a few years of playing stringed bass, then tenor recorder. I'm kind of a hermit player, just for myself, have never had the urge to play for or with others. I don't do chords, just the melody line, and I play mostly folk (very old, medium old, folk revival, anything folky or folkish), cowboy tunes, old pop/American songbook, and I'm trying to learn a little Brazilian jazz and light classical. I alternate playing by ear and sight reading, as each seems to help me improve on the other.
There I am in a nutshell!
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