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Originally Posted by AJRed
get him started early in hopes he will be interested in playing music.
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You mean he hasn't exactly expressed a pronounced interest in that, or in a specific instrument?
I know the guitar is a very versatile instrument and learning to play one almost a rite of passage (that I wish I had had myself!), but is it really the most appropriate instrument to begin with?
Wouldn't a keyboard instrument, or something tuned in fifths (a small mandolin?) be a better introduction if solfège and music theory are ahead down the path?
Heh, I did play around with my mom's old mandolin as a youngster, after discovering it was tuned the same as my violin. Sadly there was no one around to show me what to use it for other than the few mouldy old bundles with silly, simple (and frankly quite slimy) catholic songs I couldn't stand even back then
