Thank you!
I was actually nervous about the reverb. I was at a family friends house and he had a banjolin in this one room of his house. I seriously wanted to figure out how to play it. I tuned it like a viola, which I had been trying to learn for a while, and figured out a few chords. We went there again next week, I told my dad about the instrument, he said I shouldn't ask. The NEXT week, I ended up subtly commenting on it to the man who owned it; he got it from a Hungarian immigrant he met in New York who never played it, and now he never played it, and couldn't figure out how to tune it. I told him I managed to tune it and he said that I could have it. Unfortuanately, the instrument wouldn't go higher than CGDA even when we took it to the shop to get it restrung (hadn't been for several decades), and we found out it was worth 900 dollars as an antique. We told the original owner we were going to give it back to him, and he said to keep it. After a while, I took the instrument in with my dad to trade it for a better beginning instrument (Uhm. Well. They didn't tell us that we were buying one of the lower quality mandolins in the shop...) and I began learning on that. I pretty much played it every day after then; my band had broken up so I started writing all my music on the mandolin. After a while it just seemed like the perfect instrument on which I could express myself. I started a band with my friend Isaac and got into playing more jazz/blue oriented stuff, also got persuaded to restring and tune down to mandola pitch. It's my primary instrument now, the one I feel most at home on. Love playing on it.
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