I'd like to own the fiddle that Mark O'Conner painted white many years ago and carried around for a long time, getting famous fiddlers to sign! (I watched him at about age 16 get Lyman Enloe and a couple others at Winfield) and ...I noted he did NOT play that one on stage....so a cheapo guitar is a good way to go,,,and if it is still good for jamming, fine!