Re: whyd you start?
This a long and boring (probably to most of you) story. I had been playing guitar for about 10 years. My mother was in the early stages of a fast progressing type of dimentia (sic?) and one day said to me that she found it interesting that I played the guitar because her father had played the mandolin. I adored my grandfather and tucked that comment away. After she died, I asked my guitar teacher if he knew where I could get a mandolin. I went on down to the store owned by a friend of his and traded my Larrivee P09 and some $$$ on a KM 1000. I had never even touched a mandolin prior to that and had the store owner play the two he had that were more expensive than the trade in because I had no idea what I was doing. So, I took it up as sort of a nod to my grandfather.
Since then I have asked others in the family if they ever saw my grandfather play the mandolin or if they had seen one around his house. No one has, so now I don't really know if my mother was not really coherent at the time or what. It doesn't really matter, because I enjoy playing it anyway.
Like I said long and boring!!!
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Several mandolins of varying quality-any one of which deserves a better player than I am.......
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