Re: Longtime Musician, New Mandolinist!
Welcome, put me on the me too list, once a classical trumpet player who has forayed into many other instruments, none of them I play well (except for trumpet), and added mandolin to the list a year or so back. Strictly amateur hour for me, but I am good enough to get into a church band on multiple instruments ('lectric bass and drums), still waiting for the mandolin skills to be good enough to perform in public.
Mandolin has a lot of appeal to me, is small (portable), logical (not like guitar) - somehow my brain can handle 4 strings better than 6, is both melodic and rhythmic, and is unusual enough that it gets some attention, but not something that nobody has heard of either.
I actually took up mandolin because I thought I would have an easier time getting into a band if I wasn't competing with the 10,000 guitar players per square-mile we have here in the US. :-) Same thinking applies to drums n bass.
Davey Stuart tenor guitar (based on his 18" mandola design).
Eastman MD-604SB with Grover 309 tuners.
Eastwood 4 string electric mandostang, 2x Airline e-mandola (4-string) one strung as an e-OM.
DSP's: Helix HX Stomp, various Zooms.
Amps: THR-10, Sony XB-20.
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