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I just got my youngest son his first mandolin lesson the other day, and
I have to say, that we’re both excited. I feel a little bit guilty,
like I’ve been pushing him a little hard to play music, and for a while
it seemed like it wouldn’t happen. You see, the whole family plays. My
wife is a fiddler, I play the accordion, my older son plays harmonica
and a little guitar, and my daughter is just vicious on the banjo. So I
thought, if I could get my little one a mandolin lesson maybe he’d take
to it like the rest of us, and we could all sit around and make music
together. But for a while, he would have none of it. No matter how much
I offered, he refused to have a mandolin lesson.

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