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Not sure the size of the neck matters much in the transition from guitar. Anything is going to seem tiny. I've been playing guitar on and off -- mostly off -- for most of my life. Then a couple years...

Yes, YES on the "once in a lifetime"...obsess.

There's a couple sources in the British Isles
This is one of them. He has mandolin tab or just the tunes (which I prefer)
http://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/tab.html

Another in what I hope is a short series of dumb questions. Anybody here just play at home for the pleasure of it?. No gigging, jamming, open mics...just sitting home noodling on tunes until they...

I'm closing in on my step up mandolin and I'm debating whether to get one with a pickup, or when the time comes that I need amplification, simply get a microphone. Most use will be practice, the...

I should have titled my OP pretty sounding. All I care about is the sound. (He says)

That's the configuration on my guitar (Crafter Anniversary (Korean)) and it's just right for my taste.

That would be the Big Muddy M-11.

If you can read standard notation, any music book with the word "theory" in the title will probably help, and you probably won't need the whole book. Local library?

Thirty years ago a sax teacher exclaimed "Ah, so you like pretty music." Yeah. like Stan Getz and Paul Desmond. The other night I blurted out to my wife that the music I love most is jazz standards,...

You and Charlie beat it out of me: that's at the top of the list. One of the things I'll decide after I move to my destination and start jamming is whether I think I need to have a pickup...

That's good too.

This is one reason I'm asking the question. My guitars are a nylon - 2"+ - and a steel - 1.72. I have found some guitars, life Fender 'Casters, to be unplayable, for me. As well as the nylon...

I've sold my piano, and might have a buyer for my trumpet. I'm going to put the money in a 3-month CD. My move will be spread over 2 months, then a month to woodshed and see what comes out of it....

I'm 70, have large hands to start width, and some of the swelling that seems to come to some in old age. I've been working out on a surprisingly good Savannah, and of course browsing for my next...

Got the book. Three great things about it. First, personally, is that I'm reassured I didn't get a clunker (Savannah, but from a good shop). Second, I know I will go over my mandolin and do whatever...

I've used Grigory Gourylev's book when my hands are bothering me, or when I'm traveling and feel I need to do something useful.My daughter is an OT and she wisely avoids giving me advice, but she...

After months of asking myself this question, it only took an hour or so of being on the forum for wisdom to arrive. I can sell the trumpet or consign it through the above mentioned dealer. Then use...

I played mandolin fairly regularly about 30 years ago. Then I gave it to a deserving friend when I consolidated. Then I took up the trumpet again. Now I'm setting aside the trumpet. My local...

I'm getting back to mandolin after a 25-year absence. In the meantime however I did play some guitar. I just encountered a page in a beginner book (Dummies) asking me to pick EDEF#EF#GF#G on the D...