Diane in Chicago - Posted - 07/30/2011:  09:25:46

Won't it be interesting to see how I play when we are reunited?

It has not been this long since I took several months off back when I first started and played mandolin and strumstick for a while instead.

Any hiatus stories you'd like to share?

dzen - Posted - 07/30/2011:  09:46:12

I think those are usually productive periods, they give your mind a chance to develop ideas without those pesky, clumsy fingers getting in the way.

It'll be fun to play again, that's for sure.

benjaminmcclure - Posted - 07/30/2011:  10:53:08

better get playin on that fiddle

Andah1andah2 - Posted - 07/30/2011:  12:21:23

Yeah, in the other direction. I played banjo for a while then moved to fiddle. Two years later, I picked up my banjo today for fun and guess what...I lost just about everything. The pickin hand could barely do a roll, but still had a little bum ditty. The left hand could still find chords though.
I bumbled through a little Mountain Dew and White House Blues then put it back. There...that's enough for another couple years. Poor, sixteen pound banjo.

BC - Posted - 07/30/2011:  14:36:36

I just got back to my fiddle after a 4 week unplanned hiatus when my right (bowing) thumb kinda-sorta got in the way of the table saw blade.  Gawd, that was ugly.  I was alone so I didn't go to the emergency room as my wife so "gently" suggested when she came up to the cottage the next day.  But I thought paper towels and electrical tape was a great idea.  It's healing OK and I did start fiddling again the beginning of the week.  It's slow going as I haven't any feeling yet.  But it's all good!