Daisy (she/her)

I have played the mandolin. I prefer to try to master one instrument than play loads, but piano is too useful not too know the basics. I still have a long way to go to achieve mastery of guitar…

Just play everything with vibrato and noone will notice ;)

I mean the left hand probably translates well. Hitting the notes depends more on the construction of your guitar, since if the neck bends, the strings have to stretch further. Unlike on a violin, you can’t move your finger in the fret to change the pitch much, so it will never sound that good. Not sure why your partner thinks that a guitar is like a percussion instrument though. Unless they only played tamboura haha.

I’ve found instruments typically come on groups, where learning an instrument in a group will help more with another. Eg learning guitar will help more with playing a mandolin than a piano. Instruments that typically use the same clef are closer together etc.

If you want to self host, I’ve been having a great success with NextCloud, which would fit the bill perfectly and have room for further capability if you wanted it down the road.

From what you described, it sounds like you may be agender, ie don’t have a gender. Not that you have to use a label or anything, but if you want to explore it further, it might help too know what to look up ;)

Scallywags

Bishops got nothing on queens though. I managed to get a checkmate over x, y, t and p which was pretty amazing even though I was down several pieces and my kings were not in great positions.