Orcas Island Tonewoods
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"Mandolin Graffiti"
"Mangler Of Bluegrass"
"Overhead At Darrington"
"Electric Mandolin Graffiti"
Cool. Is it for sale somewhere?
"Mongo only pawn in game of life." --- Mongo
I'm guessing it was an 8 string that was re-done as a 5. But of course, I could be wrong.
Chief. Way up North. Gibson 1917 A model with pickup. JL Smith 5 string electric. 1929 National Triolian resonator mandolin with pickup. National RM 1 with pickup. Ovation Applause. Fender FM- 60 E 5 string electric (with juiced pickups). 1950's Gibson EM-200 electric mandolin. 1954 Gibson EM-150 electric mandolin. Custom made "Jett Pink" 5 string electric- Bo Diddley slab style. Jay Roberts Tiny Moore model 5 string electric.
It's a legit 5-string, with it's own model designation, the 5001...
Not sure how many were made?
It sold quite a few years ago, and someone just posted the pic on one of the Rickenbacker Bookface pages...
I'm on a 5-string kick lately, and have been playing a Bigsby copy by TK Smith, going down the Tiny Moore road again...
So-ooo, being a Ric and Tiny enthusiast, this thing really caught my interest...
Orcas Island Tonewoods
Free downloads of my mandolin CDs:
"Mandolin Graffiti"
"Mangler Of Bluegrass"
"Overhead At Darrington"
"Electric Mandolin Graffiti"
Do you guys use the 5 string ones only for playing lead?
Have you figured out new chord shapes as well?
I usually just use the regular four (8) string chord forms on four of the five strings. And yes, I usually use it as a lead instrument.
"Mongo only pawn in game of life." --- Mongo
...but it's a great chording instrument too, with that low C string...
Orcas Island Tonewoods
Free downloads of my mandolin CDs:
"Mandolin Graffiti"
"Mangler Of Bluegrass"
"Overhead At Darrington"
"Electric Mandolin Graffiti"
Having spent some time around Tiny in the 1980s, I recall that he basically would play lead melodies on the upper (in pitch) strings and comp chording on the lower ones IIRC even the bottom three strings.
Jim
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1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
3 or 4 string voicings work well. I like 3 strings, bottom 3, middle 3 and upper 3 occasionally.
Dont use 5 often, but do very ocassionally.
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For the super-common chords I've figured out the 5-string versions, and for all those four-note 7th chords (maj7, min7, min7b5 & dim7) chords I still use four strings (and I'm still working on the transpositions for using the bottom four strings).
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