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From The Guardian: A Höfner bass guitar bought by Paul McCartney for £30 in 1961 has been returned to the former Beatle after a global search to find the stolen instrument. The distinctively shaped guitar, bought by McCartney before his rise to stardom and reportedly his favourite, was last seen around the time the Beatles were recording their final album to be released, Let It Be. McCartney paid £30 for the bass guitar 63 years ago, equivalent to about £800 at today’s prices. A search to find the missing violin-shaped bass, a German-made Höfner 500/1, was launched by the Lost Bass Project last year, and on Tuesday a student, Ruaidhri Guest, shared a photograph on social media of the elusive instrument…

That's pretty cool! We always look back for our first instrument and the memories associated with it. The sentimental value. Intrinsic value. I still have mine. And I'm a left handed player.

It might be worth checking out https://classical.guitarcorneracademy.com/ This will take you from very beginning to advanced in the classical/fingerstyle method.

Thank you, Diane. Very helpful. Only one of my teachers (I've had 5) specialized in fingerstyle guitar. In fact, he won the national fingerstyle championship one year in the mid 90s. But even he did not have a curriculum for me to follow. None of my teachers have. That is what drew me to the L&M main series. It had structure and was well thought out. However I drifted away from it when my desire to learn solo fingerstyle was not addressed up to the point I reached. I realize that I could engage a teacher via Zoom or some similar technology, but I hesitate to do that just because the face-to-face interaction was so helpful to me....especially being able to closely see what the teacher would demonstrate. I haven't entirely ruled out live-but-not-truly-in-person lessons, however the ideal would be for me to find a book-and-video combo series that I could tackle at my own pace. Maybe that's not realistic, but I was hoping that perhaps the L&M Fingerstyle series plus this forum night fit my vision, with the added bonus of folks I could call upon if/when I get stuck. 🙂