i have been married to a woman who has sung and played the guitar for about 50 years, but my previous musical experience was playing the accordion through high school. I have always enjoyed listening to acoustic music and finally decided to try to learn an instrument a few years ago.
The mandolin attracted me, and I purchased a beginner instrument from a dealer at a Bluegrass Festival together with an instruction book about 5 years ago.
I didn't progress much further than learning to tune the thing on my own and after about two years my wife decided to kick start my journey by buying me a few lessons as a Christmas present. She gave me a certificate to take lessons from Walt Richards, an acoustic musician in our area who we both like. His website is Trails and Rails. That did it. I became hooked on learning the mandolin, and I still consider it as my "main" instrument.
A year or two later after becoming more curious about the guitar I purchased one, again at a festival, and started having Walt teach me how to play it, first to just chord along and then to fingerpick.
Well now my curiosity has been aroused by the banjo. Furthermore I have decided to pursue learning it differently. I'll have more to say about that in future Blog entries.
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