Re: Is there such a thing as a "Mandolin Culture?"
JeffD -- I think in a large enough crowd of mandolinners, you'll find the same personality types you'd find in a mixed musical group, just because they're musicians. If I'm one of two mandolins in a crowd of fiddles and other instruments, f'rinstance, I'll absolutely gravitate to the other mandolin and we'll do fine together. But if I'm in a roomful of mandolins, I've found that some people I like and some I don't care for, in a mild kind of way. I think maybe 'musician' may be at least as descriptive of personality as 'mandolin player' for sorting out 'my kind of people' from 'not my kind of people.' So, maybe, we're musicians first, mandolin players second and then whatever genre we prefer third?
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