I spent a certain amount of time in this Forum, and on the Mandolin, and then (bows his head in shame) moved over to the Ukulele for some strange reason (lol).
I still remember many of the old timers in here. One whom I recall is Anthony Hannigan, (shout out), and there are others.
Since being away from the mandolin now for a few years, I find that I miss it. I'm out there looking at the Washburn's again. We'll see. I can smell the purchase; just don't know when.
There are a couple of videos out there of my "practice" and a sound comparison with and without a Tone Guard. I still remember wrapping leather strips between my strings, behind the bridge; using Tomastik Infeld (sp?) strings, and running my strap over my right shoulder, rather than around my neck. If you search YouTube for Nutmegger1957, I'm sure you'll find, (in that mix of 159 videos or so) the two or three videos done to show my practice time.
There are a lot of phases I went thru in the beginning in here, including the kind of plectrum, to the best Tab-playing software. I will have most of that out of the way on this second time around........
"Hello" to all..............I'm holding $750.00 - $850.00 for my next Mando (obviously I can't afford the "best of the best") and am open to suggestions from the current market.
Chris Thile scares me, and so does Mike Marshall (they are THAT good!!), and make me want to quit, for lack of hoping to ever reach their level (especially at "60"), but there are a number of great players here that I feel encouraged by.
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