View Full Version : How is this for a Mandolin???
leathermarshmallow
Jan-21-2009, 9:23pm
I found this video on youtube. Check out this mandolin/thingy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ebu58gU60Xg
Dang it! I cannot figure out how to post a link!
Greg
JEStanek
Jan-21-2009, 9:34pm
The fretless 4 string mandolin! I'm trying to decide if that thing was amplified. Not my cup of tea but I bet you could do interesting things with it.
Jamie
Bill Snyder
Jan-21-2009, 10:05pm
Does not sound like it (the instrument) does either one exceptionally well.
JEStanek
Jan-21-2009, 10:28pm
Interesting how that works, Bill. Interesting. ;)
Jamie
Bertram Henze
Jan-22-2009, 4:58am
Does not sound like it (the instrument) does either one exceptionally well.
That's what I think. The worst of both worlds. Too many conflicts unsolved - picking and bowing must not happen at the same position on strings, is there a post under the bridge or not...
The bowing sound made my hairs stand up.
Bertram
mrmando
Jan-22-2009, 2:00pm
Needs a catchy name. "Mandiddle," anyone?
Santiago
Jan-22-2009, 2:20pm
When I was a kid, long before I knew what a mandolin was, I used to pick my violin as if it were a "little guitar." This is sort of the same thing.
Ravenwood
Jan-23-2009, 3:59am
Does not sound like it (the instrument) does either one exceptionally well.
I wonder if that is more a matter of the musician than the instrument. My impression is that this someone just starting out, especially with the bow. When I was starting I sounded like that for a year.
I wonder what the instrument would sound like if some like Ray Legere took a turn on it.
Tim2723
Jan-23-2009, 6:34am
Well, I give the guy credit or trying a new idea. Everything's got to start somewhere I suppose.
groveland
Jan-23-2009, 6:56am
The fretless 4 string mandolin! I'm trying to decide if that thing was amplified. Not my cup of tea but I bet you could do interesting things with it.
Jamie
I think I count 8 strings. (You can hear really them with the bow.)
JEStanek
Jan-23-2009, 8:13am
You might be right! When I first looked, it looked like 4 stings across the 8 posts top and bottom of each side. I was wondering if the weird sound was from amplification but it may have been from paired courses. Regardless, I hope he's having fun with it.
Jamie
laddy jota
Jan-23-2009, 8:24am
Nobody gives Lloyd Loar grief about plastic concave backs with f-holes in them. The Duolin maker tried something different for a change. Alas, it won't catch on.