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The Mandolin Player
Somehow the usual anxieties of life didn't matter when David Hochman focused on mastering the mandolin.
By David Hochman
From Reader's Digest
To the outside world, we probably don't sound like much. Our banjo player is deaf in one ear and sings like he's deaf in both. The nine-year-old on fiddle is sawing G notes though we're playing in A. Then there's the mandolin player (yours truly), whose bluegrass jamming skills before today were limited to air banjo renditions of that song from Deliverance.
What our group lacks in musicianship is offset by our willingness to humiliate ourselves. Failing publicly is the point at Dr. Banjo's Bluegrass Jam Camp, where I have come to strum alongside kindred spirits -- rank beginners like me whose families couldn't bear the twanging anymore.
- rest at www.rd.com/inspiring-true-stories/an-adult-learns-the-mandolin/article89828.html
Somehow the usual anxieties of life didn't matter when David Hochman focused on mastering the mandolin.
By David Hochman
From Reader's Digest
To the outside world, we probably don't sound like much. Our banjo player is deaf in one ear and sings like he's deaf in both. The nine-year-old on fiddle is sawing G notes though we're playing in A. Then there's the mandolin player (yours truly), whose bluegrass jamming skills before today were limited to air banjo renditions of that song from Deliverance.
What our group lacks in musicianship is offset by our willingness to humiliate ourselves. Failing publicly is the point at Dr. Banjo's Bluegrass Jam Camp, where I have come to strum alongside kindred spirits -- rank beginners like me whose families couldn't bear the twanging anymore.
- rest at www.rd.com/inspiring-true-stories/an-adult-learns-the-mandolin/article89828.html
