View Full Version : Awesome Mandola player....
Fstpicker
Jun-26-2009, 10:11pm
Tim Allan (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQK6BY3PAKc&feature=related)
Just stumbled across him on YouTube. Amazing...similar to what Evan Marshall does.
Jeff
D C Blood
Jun-28-2009, 10:22am
You are right on this one.. and guitar, tenor banjo...
Daniel Nestlerode
Jun-28-2009, 11:46am
He's very good. It's a nice example of Duo Style.
<picking nit>
But in the US, the instrument he plays in the video is usually referred to as an octave mandolin. I'll bet he plays a lot of Celtic and got the nomenclature from them. Brits call that instrument the mandola (and they call our mandola, a tenor mandola).
</picking nit>
:)
Daniel
foldedpath
Jun-28-2009, 7:16pm
Right, the instrument he's playing is what Weber (and everyone else here in the USA) calls an octave mandolin. I have the Yellowstone version, it's a great instrument.
He's calling it a "mandola" because he has it tuned up to CGDA (see the YouTube comments), but I think that's unnecessarily blurring categories on an instrument family that not many people know about anyway. If it were me, I'd just call it an octave mandolin tuned up to CGDA.
On the other hand, it's his instrument and I guess he can call it anything he wants :) I just don't see the point in muddying the waters.
Great playing, regardless.
Daniel Nestlerode
Jun-29-2009, 4:48pm
Hunh. I didn't realize he had tuned up a fourth. (Gotta listen more closely or read the notes more often.) Interesting. Well, I take it all back then!
:)
Daniel