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What Tom Wright said. Your callouses will harden and become more a part of your fingertips--no need to pick one instrument or the other or do anything special to your fingers to play violin. You'll...

You know, I don't have any difficulty with a bowlback and don't remember finding it too awkward when I first played one either. I think one's body proportions might be a factor, and everyone's...

Ahh yes! Saturday Night Breakdown is one I've been meaning to learn. Those Mississippi tunes are a hoot.

Yes! What's the real little instruments some of them are playing? Something like a piccolo mandolin but less strings?

This caught my eye the other day:

https://larkinthemorning.com/collections/mandolins/products/man034

$200 for an all solid wood mandolin is a bargain. I believe the back on it is somewhere in...

I've found a great resource in your e-book, Rob. I dabbled with mandolin 10+ years ago but sold it for a nicer fiddle which has been my main instrument for as long. I got an old 1900's bowlback...

Lots of good tunes in here!

Pikes Peak
Loat Indian (in D, ala Foghorn Stringband)
Take Me Back to Georgia
Texas Fair (Leake County Revelers)

Thanks for the suggestion. I'm not looking necessarily for mandolin-specific pieces, just anything that'd be a good starting point for learning some classical stuff. I actually have Suzuki book 1 in...

I'd like to learn some classical pieces on mandolin, but I'm lost as far as what pieces to learn, and I'm not very knowledgeable on classical music in general. Is there a list of pieces that most...

Thanks a whole lot, Leon. I sent you a PM.

Thanks for the info, fishdawg. I don't know how I missed your reply until just now. Oops. Haha. I sent an email to see if the jam is still a current jam. I go to Orlando every once in a while, so...

I really liked that Lara & Reyes video. I love mellow, melodic songs like that one. Are the rest of the songs on their CD the same style?

Check out www.thesession.org. Under "events", or something to that extent, I remember seeing a weekly jam at a pub in Ft. Myers and there was also something in Naples. I think they're both mainly...

I was looking around and saw that there's a couple of regular jam's that go on over on the west coast. I still haven't been able to find anything in my area, or anyone that plays mandolin. Maybe I'm...

I'm in Coral Springs and was wondering if there is anyone else from around here. I've only been playing for about 6 months, so I'm more of a beginner, but I'm looking for some other people to get...

Playing the guitar might not be a bad idea either. Most people can learn to strum some chords and play some scales in a relatively short amount of time, and that also might be a common instrument...

I just about always use the same pick. I've had the same few picks for years now. I'm really compulsive about not ever losing things, so I almost never lose even a pick.

Edit: I just realized this...