Re: Is Banjo you first language?
Started on banjo in 1961, with a "no-name" purchased from a Harvard Crimson classified ad, and the Pete Seeger book. Mandolin didn't come 'til ten years later, when I found a teens A-1 in my grandfather's attic, and wanted to have a bluegrass band. My brother played guitar, my friend Bob banjo, and I (similarly to Bill Monroe) got "the instrument that was left." Been playing both instruments, along with guitar, harmonica, Autoharp, concertina, ukulele, and whatever else, for about 40 years now. Hope to achieve competence someday.
Allen Hopkins
Gibsn: '54 F5 3pt F2 A-N Custm K1 m'cello
Natl Triolian Dobro mando
Victoria b-back Merrill alumnm b-back
H-O mandolinetto
Stradolin Vega banjolin
Sobell'dola Washburn b-back'dola
Eastmn: 615'dola 805 m'cello
Flatiron 3K OM
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