No, accually I want to be an expert player, doing Charlie Danails and the like with not problems. Without going through the bother of accually learning.

Learning fiddle is a second best option, but one that will wait until I can play the mandolin sounds in my mind, on a mandolin. I'd love to have a fiddle though, and may eventially go through the effort to learn.

Accually I was playing fiddle this past week at a friends, and I could make what most folks would recignise as twinkle twinkle little star, but thats about all you can say about it.