I have the habit of buying a packet of strings every time I visit a bricks and mortar music store, just to "pay" something for my time poking around....
The mandolin is an ocean, with infinite pathways traversing its surface. You don't need to learn them all. You only need to learn how to get to where...
I think this kind of thing described above provides much more immediate competence than learning chord configurations and copping the chords from the...
Retired from 40 years of music retail, I can tell you no matter how many hours we spent keeping our display instruments tuned, weather and “newness’...
This is a good point. At some point the collection itself seems to made the decisions. You do or don't get this because of what you don't or do have...