Edit: Upon responding, I hadn't yet seen stevedenver's post directly above; he must have been reading my mind! I now return you to our regularly-scheduled musical blather:
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"Whatever I feel like playing" seems to magically coincide with "whatever the next gig calls for". That's often guitar, bass guitar, mandolin; sometimes uke or tiple. Much of that is just fairly casual, with friends. Except...
I joined the Bloomfield (NJ) Mandolin Orchestra in 2015, intending to exercise my 7 or 8-year-in mandolin skills, being a good step above beginner-ish. But after a month or two, and having only one guitar player, the request came: "We'd really rather have a second guitar than a 23rd mandolin". So I switched to guitar which, after a year or so, freed up the other guitarist to resurrect the orchestra's mandobass (later, an actual upright). So that's where we sat for some time. In late '18, an excellent guitarist joined us, so it was nice having a combination backup + jazz instructor. In late '19, yet another guitarist joined. Then, post-Covid (whoops, wishful thinking!), a bunch of the longest-time folks retired, leaving us on the verge of... inadequate? So I spent much of yesterday downloading several dozen Mando-2 sheets, setting myself up to feel beginner-ish all over again!
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