roscoestring
May-07-2010, 6:24am
My wife bought me a mandolin for our wedding anniversary about 7 or 8 years ago. The next day my daughter took it and began to learn to play. After she started getting pretty good I decided I would have to go buy me another. So I went Ebay shopping and picked up a $200 F style. My daughter, Amy, taught me a few chords and I started learning. Then she took my F style. After a while I was offered a Kentucky F style at a good price which I bought. You guessed it. Amy got the Kentucky.
Amy was very good at mandolin. She taught me a lot. We played together all the time at home, in groups, at church, everywhere we could. Our group was called Southen Cross (no "r").
That was several years ago. I've just recently started getting interested again and in fact have built my very first mandolin. It is a solid body electric from a kit that I modified. I sold it to a guy in Washington state. He may be a member here. Not sure. Now I'm building a couple more from scratch and thought it would do me a service to see what others say about mandos.
I haven't learned my way around this forum yet but I hope to be learning from you guys (and gals) in the future.
My daughter was more of an acoustic player and I love the electrics. She played more bluegrass type stuff and me more country/rock. I could never get the sound I wanted out of an acoustic/electric. What's everyone's take on that?
Amy was very good at mandolin. She taught me a lot. We played together all the time at home, in groups, at church, everywhere we could. Our group was called Southen Cross (no "r").
That was several years ago. I've just recently started getting interested again and in fact have built my very first mandolin. It is a solid body electric from a kit that I modified. I sold it to a guy in Washington state. He may be a member here. Not sure. Now I'm building a couple more from scratch and thought it would do me a service to see what others say about mandos.
I haven't learned my way around this forum yet but I hope to be learning from you guys (and gals) in the future.
My daughter was more of an acoustic player and I love the electrics. She played more bluegrass type stuff and me more country/rock. I could never get the sound I wanted out of an acoustic/electric. What's everyone's take on that?