Re: Identity crisis
I certainly don't have a problem with 'letting go' of instruments or even styles of music, though it looks otherwise.
But as J-45er says, "one needs to make ground" or make progress.
(You probably remember that I play Irish fiddle and second violin in a community orchestra as well as mandolin/mandola in a klezmer group.) And I love many styles of music I'll never get to play.
But to get better, I can't dally in a bunch of instruments. I need to work at one. For me, it is the violin/fiddle. And that is a problem right now because of my injury. Before the accident, I was spending a lot of time on mandolin. And many people think my main thing is mandolin. So it is an identity crisis.
I also have a real interest in arranging music, and I think I bought the guitar so I can analyze some recordings that have the guitar. My justification was that 'you can't get a guitar sound without a guitar.'
For now, the only thing I can do for any length of time is to study and to 'punch notes' into Finale on the laptop.
Decipit exemplar vitiis imitabile
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