My first post here.
I have been cursed with a love of music but no musical aptitude. For two years or more I have been torturing an inexpensive Washburn mandolin and am making progress, but very slowly.
I practice about 45 minutes a day, and my fingers get get sore enough so that I have to stop. About a year ago, I had a luthier adjust the string height and that made learning much easier.
I am wondering if I upgraded if I could get an instrument that was significantly easier to play. How much to make a significant improvement? My ears are so bad, that tone isn't terribly important, but I do love the noise a mandolin makes.
If I do upgrade, I'd like to buy the new mandolin from a place where I could play it, so I don't spend a chunk of money to no good end.
There is a Alvarez A-800 mandolin private sale near here, but don't know if that would be a significant upgrade. I suspect that whatever I buy will need a trip to a luthier for fine tuning.
If you have read this far, you probably have deciphered that I am WAY out of my element here.
Thanks for reading.
Fred
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