Re: aging fingers just can't cut it anymore
Then there are those of us who took up mandolin in our sixties. Just as we're starting to speed up, we're slowing down.
I think if you watch older professional musicians, you'll see that, except for a very few who are spared arthritis, muscle tension, and such, they slow down as they age. I've noticed that as members of a couple of my favourite traditional music bands from Prince Edward Island, get into their fifties and sixties, they have taken younger family members into their groups. The younger people seem to carry quite a bit of the weight in their public performances. The older people still shine when they play, but they play less.
All the best with your playing and with your musical path.
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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