Lilley Pad

Hi kids.   I just thought I would check in and try to fill out my profile, add a photo of myself. Where do I start.  This musical journey is all new to me. My background is mainly  in the visual arts. I started painting  at a very early age and started selling some of my paintings when I was  about 12. Did the struggling starving artist phase until about the Late 1980s when I gave it up and went into architecture.  Just got tired of being a starving artist.  Back in the old days I did get a few grants from the National Endowment for the Arts to do some murals in the  San Francisco Bay areas, and had a few paintings that were shown at the San Francisco Art Festival back in the 1970s. That brings me up to now this year when I thought I'd pick up a musical instrument. I noticed that the ads always said the Mountain Dulcimer was the easiest instrument to learn only having three strings. I thought well how complicated could it  possibly be. Boy was I wrong starting from scratch with no musical background and not knowing what a fret was let alone scales, what a half note or what a quarter note was. This has definitely been an experience. I'm having fun learning the instrument though and it's starting to become more and more easier. This is a great website with a lot of good people and lots of good information here. Have fun everybody