Re: Total Newbee looking for info
Originally Posted by
Jim Garber
As usual a new person here posts and then doesn’t check in to see if anyone responded.
I have seen an OP respond for the first time after many more posts than are now on this thread.
Still, I sometimes wonder if a person making an enquiry gets overwhelmed by the information given. Perhaps a person is expecting to hear, "What you need is an Acme mandolin," but instead gets many people commenting on how they can't get what you want for the money they want to pay, and what to do instead. I'm not saying that the people responding are wrong, just that a newcomer might find it discouraging.
By the way, for $200 down, my local music chain store would let me take a more expensive instrument home, then pay it off in instalments. Of course, the down payment and monthly payments would be proportional to the price of the instrument).
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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