Re: new mando player (send help)
Can you go to either a store or mandolin player, and ask them to show you how to change the strings? (I know, it's Co-vid times, but later perhaps.) If going to a store, be courteous enough to buy a set of strings there. I'm not a person who likes changing strings, but, as Allen says, it shouldn't be that frustrating -- otherwise, there would be far fewer mandolin players in the world.
Robert Johnson's mother, describing blues musicians:
"I never did have no trouble with him until he got big enough to be round with bigger boys and off from home. Then he used to follow all these harp blowers, mandoleen (sic) and guitar players."
Lomax, Alan, The Land where The Blues Began, NY: Pantheon, 1993, p.14.
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