Re: Definition of a good mandolin player’s spouse
I, too, am lucky in my spouse, normally referred to on here as my-husband-the-guitar-player. We started playing duets together while we were dating back in the 1970s and picked up ITM as a pair back in the 1990s and I've dragged him through tastes of choro, klezmer, gypsy and classical. He's always game to try something new. We occasionally trade picks, buy each other strings, tuners, straps and whatnot for gifts and do our best to drive our (now adult) kids crazy with yet another two-hour session of nothing but hornpipes. COVID has kept us home most nights instead of playing out, but having someone to always play with has been a great bonding experience over the soon-to-be-38-years we've been married.
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1920 Lyon & Healy bowlback
1923 Gibson A-1 snakehead
1952 Strad-o-lin
1983 Giannini ABSM1 bandolim
2009 Giannini GBSM3 bandolim
2011 Eastman MD305
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