Mandolin Sighting

[Dfyngravity]

Sting preformed on the Today Show this morning to promote his new CD of his favorite winter songs. The song was very nice, seems like it would make or might already be a nice fiddle tune. There were a few fiddles and a mandolin. It was definitely a custom mandolin, blacktop A-5.....couldn't get a name off of the headstock, but it sounded very nice.

[jim simpson]

I saw a bit of that, I thought it was a black-face Collings.

[Dfyngravity]

That is what I was thinking. They showed several close ups, and the fingerboard looked like a collins, but every time they started to pan towards the headstock they faded out to another view!

[jim simpson]

I'm sorry I didn't get to hear more. The mandolin sounded prominent enough in the mix. There must be a new release for Sting. I joked that he was doing bluegrass!

[journeybear]

It's a winter album, with a Christmas song or two. I made a mention of it over on the Mandolins On TV (http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=50252) thread, with a link to a video at amazon of Sting talking about the project.

Also, on "Dancing With The Stars" tonight, Taylor Swift's fiddler played mandolin on the first of two songs. Couldn't hear it, natch.

[journeybear]

Sting is on Letterman tonight. I expect more eclectic instrumentation, hopefully including a mandolin ... :mandosmiley:

[journeybear]

Hmmm ... same song, same instrumentation. Still can't see the logo on the mandolin's headstock. Sting is scheduled to be on The View this morning. More of the same? Only one way to find out ...

[Patrick Market]

This is out of the context of the original post, but today for the first time I saw a show called Imagination Movers, while visiting my inlaws. This is a Disney show for toddlers, and I didn't think too much when my 3-year old said excitedly, "Daddy, look!" When I did, I caught a glimpse of a white F-style mandolin in the hands of one of the cast (whom Google assures me is a fellow named Scott Durbin).

So now my son is infected. Could MAS be far behind for him? :cool:

[mrmando]

There was an online holiday Best Buy ad featuring six or seven carolers singing a Best Buy jingle to the tune of a Christmas carol ... one of the carolers was playing simple chords on a cheap Asian A-style. Saw it a few times, surfing around.

[catmandu2]

I saw some of that Sting Winter Concert show on PBS. In addition to guitars and doublebass, they had harp, fiddle, pipe, mando and bouzouki...and Cyro Baptista on percussion.