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12:34pm August 23, 2014
I’m on just the barest beginning lessons I found online, which means I’m just picking one series of notes over and over again to get used to it.  But I am playing a banjo, which is more than I expected to be doing, even if I’m just playing the same eight notes over and over again.  But that’s the point of practice, and I’ve never played an instrument quite like this one. This is my father’s banjo.  My mom got it for him when he retired because he always wanted to play the banjo.  I feel kind of sad that I own it now.  My parents saw a banjo on my Amazon wishlist and said that they’d rather send me my father’s which means… he knows he won’t be using it much anymore, and that gives me a lot of mixed feelings.  But hopefully it knows it’s gone to a good home and will be taken care of and everything. It’s a five-string banjo, it seems to have good sound.  For all I know of banjos.  It’s made by Fender but I can’t tell what model it is.  I need to find it a case eventually, so that will become important.  I think my parents might be sending a stand, but only if they can afford shipping, which is a huge if given their finances.  They felt bad they couldn’t get my birthday presents to me before my birthday, just because of shipping (as if I care that it’s a few days late over something like money). Anyway, this is the banjo, and I’m excited to be getting to know it.  Musical instruments have personalities and you have to learn to get along with them if you’re ever going to play them.  I don’t know if I’ll ever get good or not, but I want to be able to play at least a few songs.

I’m on just the barest beginning lessons I found online, which means I’m just picking one series of notes over and over again to get used to it.  But I am playing a banjo, which is more than I expected to be doing, even if I’m just playing the same eight notes over and over again.  But that’s the point of practice, and I’ve never played an instrument quite like this one.

This is my father’s banjo.  My mom got it for him when he retired because he always wanted to play the banjo.  I feel kind of sad that I own it now.  My parents saw a banjo on my Amazon wishlist and said that they’d rather send me my father’s which means… he knows he won’t be using it much anymore, and that gives me a lot of mixed feelings.  But hopefully it knows it’s gone to a good home and will be taken care of and everything.

It’s a five-string banjo, it seems to have good sound.  For all I know of banjos.  It’s made by Fender but I can’t tell what model it is.  I need to find it a case eventually, so that will become important.  I think my parents might be sending a stand, but only if they can afford shipping, which is a huge if given their finances.  They felt bad they couldn’t get my birthday presents to me before my birthday, just because of shipping (as if I care that it’s a few days late over something like money).

Anyway, this is the banjo, and I’m excited to be getting to know it.  Musical instruments have personalities and you have to learn to get along with them if you’re ever going to play them.  I don’t know if I’ll ever get good or not, but I want to be able to play at least a few songs.