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Thanks everyone, thanks for the input. While I'm glad to have a few more tools for managing my instrument in my car, due to not being able to check on it at all for several weeks at a time it seems...

Thanks for the tips everyone. Ivan, I have a 0 degree (F) sleepingbag that I might use as insulation. Since heat can soften the glue in an instrument is there anything in particular to watch out for...

That might be the instrument of my dreams, but for now that's not really in my budget. I've also thought about these as the other ideal solution...

I've got a little bit of a odd question. So for my work I travel a lot and spend large amounts of time leading trips in the wilderness often more than two weeks at a time). As such I don't have a...

So I have a question that I've been thinking about for quite some time. I'm left handed bu play a righty mandolin and have since I started playing a few year ago. Back in high school when I briefly...

I will say that for me when I started playing I'd never played an instrument that used a pick before so I was completely new to that hand motion. Starting from zero like this I found that a slightly...

I went to College there and know that there are quite a few players that are either in college or alums, but most of my friends have either graduated or moved away now. The Raven often has local...

I lived in Prescott for about 4 years, and while there's not a huge music scene there is a small bluegrass community. I think you'll have better luck in Prescott itself rather than in the valley, but...

So due to the nature of my work I often go through periods of weeks or even months when I can play either very little of not at all. I usually have a lot more time to play in the fall and winter, but...

I'll put in another vote for Colorado, its a big state and you can most likely find something to your tastes. If you want a city go for denver or even boulder, for a mid-size city try ft. Collins....

I also found these two videos of the Eastman workshop/factory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IssLVC0CFDg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEqVWMA5BJU

While mandolin may rank 29th nationally it feels much higher to me. I live in areas that tend to have high populations of people interested in acoustic music, and while the 2% seems like it might be...

So I've had the opportunity to play some music with some co-workers lately, and while sometimes we play acoustic sometimes there is a drummer as well so everyone plugs in. I have only played with...

I'm very much a lefty when it comes to anything that requires precision or fine motor skills (writing, drawing, re-string my mando, folding origami, you get the idea) and more back and forth when it...

I usually say its a cross between a guitar and a violin. While this isn't actually close to true I find it gets the point across and then if people are actually interested I'll explain further.

So I got to play music with the same guys again last night. I went even better than the first time. We played for a solid three hours. There were definitely limitations, me and the banjo player...

I deffinitly did not have this problem this past weekend, I mostly tried to play quiter than the guitar and the banjo player who was equally inexperienced as me.

Thanks for the advice all. So I went and played some music saterday, or at least tryed to. As said everyone was super helpfull and encouraging. I deffinetly got better and changing between some new...

Thanks for all the feedback everyone! I appreciate it so much. While I think that the number of chords I know is on the thin side I don't expect to do much more than provide some quiet backup. This...

So this weekend I have an opportunity to jam with some other musicians that I work with, I'm not sure what kind of music they mostly play, but I'm going to give it a shot. I have been playing for...

Hey, I'm up in park city. I would consider myself a strong beginner, if you want to potentially meet up some time shoot me a PM.

Thanks for all the stories and positivity everyone. Now that its been a few days the pain is pretty much gone at this point.
This helps a lot. I love the look of old and well used things, and I'm...

So I did something stupid last night. When I was taking out my mandolin to play last night the case lid slipped out of my fingers and the latch caught the edge of my mandolin. Now there's a nice...

The last two towns that I've lived in I've been fortunate enough to have decent to good music stores. One is a store that is admittedly light on mandolin stuff, but they do have straps and picks and...

I was facing the same decision last spring when I upgraded my mandolin. I eventually found a used MD-615 for a steal that I went with, but the main reason that I decided to get an Eastman over a...