Impress Your Friends
From a website called "10 Reasons Why You Should Play The Mandolin":
"4. Impress friends and colleagues
Being a mandolin player can be an added bonus for your social life. As not very many people choose the mandolin, it is a great attention stealing asset and a conversation starter. If you take out your mandolin at an event not only will you attract fans and listeners, but you will also be able to impress anyone that needs impressing."
However, the site also tells us, "Because it has fewer strings compared to many other stringed instruments such as the guitar and violin, reading tablature is definitely a lot easier." Hmm... my mandolin has exactly twice as many strings as my violin. Maybe I shouldn't count on impressing "anyone that needs impressing."
(I'm not giving a connection to the site, as I think it may be a click-bait site, with connections to things that you don't really want.)
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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