Re: Describe your MAS progression
After a college friend lent me their Kentucky A-style, let's see...
- I started with a rental Eastman 305 and didn't connect with it.
- The same college friend gifted me a 60s Sonata that had belonged to another friend's dad, who passed. I fixed it up and got it back in working shape, but the neck is warped and that means that, at a usable action, it only plays up to the twelfth fret or so.
- I bought my first nice mandolin, a Gibson Nouveau that played easy all the way up and down the neck (to a ridiculous and surprisingly usable 29th fret).
- After my band started booking regular gigs, I treated myself to the Northfield F5S in my signature. I've been playing the heck out of it, even in the goofy 108º#weather we've gotten in Texas, and don't see myself ever parting with it!
- I intended to purchase an even nicer instrument to celebrate a recent job promotion and the upcoming recording of our first studio album, but I was surprised to find that I didn't like the sound of any of them more than I like the sound of my Northfield! With that, I ended up purchasing a used Northfield Flat Top Octave instead, and found that it's replaced my guitar as the go-to instrument to pick off the wall and play around the house.
1913 Gibson F2 (Blacktop)
2022 Big Muddy Mandola (M-16, Ziricote back and sides, Adirondack top)
2022 Kentucky KM-120 (Elevated fretboard conversion)
1940s Kay Banjolin
1930s Martin Style 0 Ukulele
1920s Vega Senator Plectrum Banjo (GDAE octave mando tuning)
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