New here (that's the point isn't it?)

I bought a bass guitar (Yamaha RBX170) off craigslist "out of the blue" about a month ago to make some of my idle time more fun/productive. I liked the portability (between rooms) and headphonability of it compared to the piano. My previous music instrument experience is: years of piano lessons, ending before I started highschool (still play, no lessons); 3 years of clarinet in middle school (haven't touched one since); playing around with an acoustic guitar (I can do some basic chords but that's about it, and my strumming is terrible :lol: ); one day of fiddling with a violin (good pun, right?). For reference, I am about 5 years out of college now.

More or less, I was searching craigslist etc for a cheap violin to experiment with until I realized there was really no such thing as a cheap violin, so then I started searching for a cheap(er, at least) bass guitar instead. Both have 4 strings, right? ;)

I joined here because the bass section looked less intimidating than TalkBass, for a beginner. Now I've spread to reading outside the bass section, and now I'm torn between wanting to try a regular 6-string electric and fearing that I'll stop learning anything on the bass if I actually get one. :P I do find that playing the bass does inspire me to pick up the (cheap) acoustic I do have.

My first guitar was a half(?) size acoustic for something like my 8th or 10th birthday; the two things I remember about it are the incredibly high action on the first fret (OUCH!) and the fact that I broke a string and "fixed" it by tying what was left of the string (which was most of it) to another piece of "regular" string and using it like that (which worked just fine :) for a cheap half-size guitar at least). Next acoustic came from my uncle with nylon strings which I liked, then my sister took it off to school where they proceeded to restring it with steel and then it hurt my fingers (this is before I had any real concept of why you would use one or the other). Now I really like the bass strings, because I barely even feel them in comparison (I can't believe how thin and sharp the acoustic strings feel now, and that's one thing on the negatives for trying to also learn guitar).

Okay this turned out much longer than I expected so I'll stop now. :shock: