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Soupy1957
Apr-04-2007, 4:56am
Their calling this a mandolin, but it appears to only have 4 strings....can they truly call it a mandolin?http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
realmandolin (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoXfz-_fBJo)
-Soupy1957
Philphool
Apr-04-2007, 5:22am
Sure ....... or George.
See yesterday's "What makes it a mandolin" thread
John Flynn
Apr-04-2007, 5:31am
I always wondered what happened to Lenny and Squiggy. They haven't aged well. http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif
Steve L
Apr-04-2007, 6:17am
Ick! Two wild and crazy guys badly in need of ear training.
Mark Walker
Apr-04-2007, 7:27am
That was enough to make my TEETH hurt! http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif
Gibsonman
Apr-04-2007, 8:34am
I would tell you what I would call it, but I don,t think Scott like it.
Chip Booth
Apr-04-2007, 9:38am
Well I think it's pretty cool http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif I'm not about to modify my bowlback, but I'll give it to them for doing something different.
Chip
mandroid
Apr-04-2007, 9:54am
Nice conversion job, though, even filled in the holes for the other 4 string pegs.
licks still sounds high-guitarish though, may be tuned like one.
a spare out behind, too.
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Everybody marches to their own drummer. At least they're out there doing it.
It's all musical expression
JEStanek
Apr-04-2007, 10:43am
Was that an old bowl or a flat back? Regardless, it was pretty cool. I liked his pseudo whammy bar hand motions. Link Wray does the e-mando...
Jamie
Keith Erickson
Apr-04-2007, 11:38am
I liked his pseudo whammy bar hand motions.
Agreed!!!!
I was also wondering....
...is he also playing with a distortion pedal?
http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/mandosmiley.gif
delsbrother
Apr-04-2007, 12:40pm
Their calling this a mandolin, but it appears to only have 4 strings....can they truly call it a mandolin?http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/rock.gif
NO. Everybody knows REAL electric mandolins have FIVE strings and SIX tuning pegs!
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Jim Broyles
Apr-04-2007, 3:17pm
It looked like he was playing mandolin shapes and he's a violin/violist, so my guess is that that thing, which appears to be a flat-back, was tuned like a mandolin. I went to their web site and heard some more stuff by them. Decent but not awe-inspiring. To me, that video has some nice moments but they are few are far between, and I love electric blues.