My focus right now is the mandolin. I'd never required myself to learn chords on it before or to do the proper upstroke. So on Mondays at noon, I meet with a teacher for 45 minutes and on Sunday afternoons I meet with a beginning mando player who's just learning to pick tunes. Great fun.

Mousethief, that doesn't sound racist to me- have you ever noticed furnace men and mechanics? I would hate to see their sheets!

Ebbie