Michael Kang on his five string electric octave mandolin

[JeffD]

So cool



and


especially at 5:33 and following.


I read somewhere that he tunes it CGDAE, and he plays it because he plays mandolin, and he has never learned to play guitar all that well.

What ever. I could like this.

[mrmando]

Well, he's no John Pizzarelli. When John scats, he scats in tune...

[JeffD]

It's cool to me (but freaking obvious I suppose) how he is playing all electric guitarry while tuned in fifths. I can watch and recognize and understand what he is doing.

As NH and others have suggested, the four and five strings electric mandolin is just an electric guitar tuned in fifths. And here it is exactly. I don't detect any "tuned in fifths" mandolin accent to his playing. Except he perhaps doesn't bend much if at all.

I am sure their are fans who listen to (SCI) and don't even know its not a guitar he is playing.


It's that Michael Kang is a mandolinfiltrator into the main stream culture, and hardly anyone noticed, either in the main stream or in the mandolin world.