Well?
Well?
Isabel Mandolins
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As compared to banjo players that stand rock solid while a cascade of notes flow forth? Or that they keep changing addresses to try to avoid the bill collectors?
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
Trying to get away from the guitar player.
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The gentrification of their neighborhoods causes the local cost of living to skyrocket, so mandolin players have to move elsewhere to be able to afford their rent. It's a simple matter of economics! Why is that so hard to understand?
I dodge fiddle bows like I'm in the matrix.
Amen, brother.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
They have hellhounds on their trail?
"The paths of experimentation twist and turn through mountains of miscalculations, and often lose themselves in error and darkness!"
--Leslie Daniel, "The Brain That Wouldn't Die."
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Because they can? Mandolins aren't very heavy.
The weight of resonator 5 string banjos makes them far more restrictive on mobility.
Weak bladder .
I go with light instrument.
Its not a backwards guitar.
It's showbiz...
A related question is how hard is it to do that, and how much practice does it take, and will anybody admit to practicing playing while moving so they could do it better on stage? :-)
Davey Stuart tenor guitar (based on his 18" mandola design).
Eastman MD-604SB with Grover 309 tuners.
Eastwood 4 string electric mandostang, 2x Airline e-mandola (4-string) one strung as an e-OM.
DSP's: Helix HX Stomp, various Zooms.
Amps: THR-10, Sony XB-20.
I practice standing and likely move around just as much as when performing. I think it helps me count without thinking.
We don't move. Compared to fiddlers, that is.
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Well,they have to do something to draw attention from the banjo picker who's hoggin' the mic.,
Ivan
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
I move around playing the mando but not the guitar, even while picking at home, no one around. So it's not showbiz or for attention.
I think maybe it has something to do with the way a mando is tuned? Fiddlers seem to move too.
Or the fact that mandos are the percussionist in a band? Timing, beat, etc..
Isabel Mandolins
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They're going for a bit of that rock star mojo.
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I don't know, but it's why I have to use a PU and not a mic.
Living in the Mitten
I don't, much. Lived here for almost 30 years.
Timothy F. Lewis
"If brains was lard, that boy couldn't grease a very big skillet" J.D. Clampett
To much coffee and breakfast burritos...
Because as soon as word gets around in your new neighbourhood that you're a mandolinist, there is a constant stream of visitors at your door leaving offerings (not all of them burnt), elbowing each other to the front of the line to sign up for lessons, incessantly offering you thousand-dollar-a-night gigs, and of course wanting to know whether they should choose the Eastman or the Kentucky. Not to mention the endless intimate propositions and the sculptors who have made yet another bronze of you and your instrument. Where do you find space for all of those graven idols? It all gets old pretty quickly.
MJB
Mandolin players didn't always move around a lot. Just look at those mandolin orchestra photos, they're all sitting down. Even Bill Monroe didn't move a whole lot. I blame the increased motion phenomenon on Chris Thiele and Sam Bush. Now everybody has to do it that way.
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