Re: A beginners 'riff' and my thanks to mandolin cafe
Welcome! This place is amazing, isn't it? I'm continually amazed and gratified at the help and support I find here.
I began playing the violin when I was eight years old. By junior high, all my buddies were getting into guitar. About then, our church decided to add a "contemporary" service and brought a guy in to teach us kids in the children's choir how to play guitar, so I signed up. But that neck felt gigantic in my hands and I just didn't like it at all, though I liked singing those songs and being done with the six-fold amen.
Then I met a mandolin, played with it for a few years, then set aside all my music when adulthood, marriage, and motherhood came along. Forty years later, my husband decided last September that he'd like to learn mountain dulcimer, so I decided I should get a mandolin to keep him company. So now "we" have his dulcimer, a mandolin, an octave mandolin, an octave resonator mandolin, a violin, a keyboard, and a cajon. It's all for both of us, you understand.
Phoebe, my 2021 Collings MT mandolin
Dolly, my 2021 Ibanez M522 mandolin
Louise, my 193x SS Maxwell mandolin
Fiona, My 2021 GSM guitar-bodied octave resonator mandolin
Charlotte, my 2016 Eastman MDO 305 octave mandolin
And Giuliana, my 2002 Hans Schuster 505 violin, Nehenehe, my 2021 Aklot concert ukulele,
Annie, my 2022 Guild M-140 guitar, Joni, my 1963 Harmony 1215 Archtone archtop guitar,
Yoko, my ca. 1963 Yamaha Dynamic No.15 guitar, and Rich, my 1959 husband.
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