Thanks to all of you for contributing to this. At this point, I can't imagine mashing down more than one string with my wee little faingers, but I'll try. But the patterns are helpful and I'm actually starting to move from the "this sounds like hammered s**t" part of the program to "You know, this might actually work out..." part.

Blessings on your head, mazeltov, mazeltov,

WW