Bluegrass on a bowlback and an electric archtop guitar but without a banjo?
Just discovered this video, was fascinated by the way Aonzo holds his bowlback without any strap and even manages to play some lightning fast tunes...
Bluegrass on a bowlback and an electric archtop guitar but without a banjo?
Just discovered this video, was fascinated by the way Aonzo holds his bowlback without any strap and even manages to play some lightning fast tunes...
Well Carlo is a tall skinny fellow, helps to tuck that tater bug away. I thought his playing on the common fiddle tunes was ok.
Charley
A bunch of stuff with four strings
The guitar was tending to drown out the mandolin I thought, but as best as I could tell CA was getting a pretty decent chop out of that bowlback.
Interesting, because there are a lot of people on a forum not a million miles from here who say you need a different mandolin for each of bluegrass, old time, "Celtic", choro, jazz ...
Carlo plays much of his repertoire including (now) jazz, classical and even Jethro Burns tunes standing and strapless.
Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
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
When I’ve seen him play BG, the notes explode off his mandolin. So quick, so clean, so smooth.
The fact he looks like Leon Redbone is another plus.
Not all the clams are at the beach
Arrow Manouche
Arrow Jazzbo
Arrow G
Clark 2 point
Gibson F5L
Gibson A-4
Ratliff CountryBoy A
A good mandolinist is a good mandolinist - and Carlos is GREAT.
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