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I have the impression the forum skews older and male, but there are also plenty of posters who don’t make their age/gender known. I think MikeEdgerton makes a good point about posters choosing...

Thanks everyone. Sounds like everything should be ok as long as I stay away from trunks and rain. I just checked our weather for the next week - all cold and rainy. We had one day at 60 degrees and I...

Spring is slowly arriving in my area. We had a couple nice days, and a lot of terrible ones still, but will get nice eventually. I’ve been thinking about taking my mandolin to play outside. I’m a...

I just got my first mandolin and was definitely nervous tuning the Es for the first time. I’m coming to mandolin from viola, so E strings are new to me. They look so thin and breakable - didn’t break...

Hi everyone. I’m doing well, hope all of you are too. I’m just a little bored being stuck at home. I have a mandolin on the way! Exciting, and the perfect new adventure for me while I’m stuck at...

Shopping is fun! There’s some cool stuff in the classified. Might stretch the budget a little higher - husband encouraging me to spend more. I’m usually the cheapskate.

My husband said I could buy “whatever I want” so I’m going to extend the budget to $1000-2000 range. He’s the spender in the relationship. I’m not certain he even knows exactly what a mandolin is,...

Thanks for the input everyone! It’s encouraging to hear many of you think I should be able to get going with either one pretty quickly. Now I want to try a bunch of them - mandolin, mandola, and...

I thought about the 10 string too, but unsure about going with less common instrument and more strings. (Is this also called a cittern, or is that something else?) Is it more difficult to play chords...

That’s a funny story, actually. I started viola in 4th grade, so this is a 9 year old’s decision making. I originally wanted to play cello, but cellos weren’t allowed on the school bus because they...

I’m new here, hope this is the right place to post. I have played viola for over 15 years. I have wanted to learn mandolin for years and now that I’ve finished school I have a little more free time...