Monday, July 27, 2026

Bluegrass

If you like tuning an instrument more than you enjoy playing one, then the mandolin is definitely for you. If you don’t give a rip whether your instrument is in tune or not, then you were born to play the fiddle. Pick up the guitar if you like the idea of random strangers borrowing your instrument to play better than you ever will. But if the guitar confuses you and you enjoy moving bulky unwieldy packages, get a bass. Finally, if you’re lonely and have a hard time making friends, take up the banjo. Then at least you’ll have enemies.

3 comments:

Mikey said...

Man, I thought it was going to finish with
"Then at least you'll know why."
Still 100 words!

Crotchety Dave said...

What about drummers? If you want to know all the ways that your body will cease to function past middle age, cart around those bad boys.

Dave Maleckar said...

Crotch, drummers, while as available for ridicule as the the rest of us, are NSB (not strictly bluegrass at least according to the self-appointed bluegrass police) Mikey, your punchline is funnier than mine but I forgive you.