Comment by QuercusMax

This is not dissimilar to how I was able to successfully learn to play guitar: learn ukulele first. I spent 20 years off and on attempting to learn guitar (mostly on steel string acoustics), and then I broke my left wrist quite badly in 2016, which really put a damper on things. (I've been playing piano and wind instruments since grade school, so it's wasn't a lack of musical ability or dexterity.)

I picked up my kid's ukulele in 2022, and it was so much easier and more approachable. Only 4 strings (one per finger), lower string tension, less finger pain. Ukulele was able to get me over the initial difficulty hump and now I know how to play ukulele, guitar, bass, mandolin, and even a little banjo.