I guess that pirate tuned his mandolin once and for all, then filed away the tuner buttons so the devil wouldn't be able to re-tune it ever again...
I guess that pirate tuned his mandolin once and for all, then filed away the tuner buttons so the devil wouldn't be able to re-tune it ever again...
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When I was working for a wholesale music dealer, we furnished a number of instruments to be used as props for a music scene for one of the Disney pirate movies.
They could care less about accuracy, period, playability, all they cared about was if it looked cool and the various directors liked it.
In the OP's pic, the prop mando has no high E course, either
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We've missed the obvious.
What sort of mandolin would a pirate play?
A Rogue, of course.
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Wow. So few serious answers to this pressing question, I can't believe my buccaneers!
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Because it's a prop. Someone was probably sent to a music store in search of an instrument that could be loaned/rented to the production company, only to be displayed, but never played. The music dealer grabbed a discarded instrument from the junk pile, that looked vaguely "period," and provided it. Note also that the instrument has some strings, but they're not in the proper nut (or, presumably, bridge) slots, and that the actor's fingering the famous "look like you're playing it, even though you have no idea how to do that" chord.
I have loaned instruments to amateur (and professional) theatrical companies for onstage use. I try to avoid anything that I would really hate to have lost or damaged. although I'm sure the people had good intentions and would try to compensate me if something happened. I know how props sometimes get treated backstage -- and sometimes in front of the camera, as in the notorious "smashed vintage Martin" movie incident.
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On the OP's picture there appears to be a piece of leather woven through the strings near the nut to prevent unwanted string sounds during filming.
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That seems to be the case:
http://www.ukulelemag.com/stories/th...of-the-ukulele
"Among the more than 25,000 Madeirans who came to Hawaii in the late 1800s, there were three woodworkers from Funchal: 40-year-old Manuel Nunes, 37-year-old Augusto Dias, and 28-year-old Jose do Espirito Santo. ....No sooner had they docked, when one of the passengers, an accomplished musician named Joao Fernandes, launched into a joyous song and dance to celebrate the ship’s safe arrival. Fernandes, a talented player who could reel off any song he’d heard only once, performed on a machête borrowed from a fellow passenger. ....Within a year, Nunes had opened his own shop just three blocks away and both Diaz and Nunes were advertising their businesses in the local newspapers. Dias described himself as a “maker of guitars, machêtes, and all stringed instruments.” Nunes announced his business as a “cabinetmaker’s shop of stringed instruments, guitars and machêtes.”"
http://pearlhar.enschool.org/ourpage...%20Ukulele.pdf
http://www.laguitarra-blog.com/wp-co...-1838-1915.pdf
I'm surprised this thread still has leg.
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