Need your expertise: thinking ahead
Now that I am recovering and am able to start practicing again, I need your expertise to help me with a dilemma. I am thinking ahead to when I will be good enough to buy another instrument. I am currently learning on a Loar LM-370, as it is the best I could find over here. I cannot simply run down to the shop and try a mandolin because no one sells them, here.
Do I buy a Pono Octave mandolin? This has the advantage of giving me two different instruments with two different sounds to explore. Plus, I sing. Do I buy an Eastman El Rey 8 string electric mandolin? This has the advantage of allowing me quiet play when my wife does not want to be disturbed and more importantly, allows me to explore new sounds. Do I buy an Eastman 605 acoustic mandolin, or similar? This has the advantage of upgrading my instrument and giving me the ability to plug in when I want to do so. Finally, do I buy an upgraded mandolin from a quality maker? This has the advantage of giving me a keeper instrument and one that plays and sounds better.
What do you all think?
Loar LM-370
“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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