I'd rather hear a Bluegrass player with an Oval, than a Jazz player with a Fender. (TIC)
Joe B
A Splendid Time is Guaranteed for All
I've posted this here a few times
"Dawg Bowl".
Bowlistas were ripping Chris Thile for playing Bach on his Loar.
It does grow wearisome.....
Mick
Ever tried, ever failed? No matter. Try again, fail again. Fail better.--Samuel Beckett
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Jerry Byrd, master steel player, said, more or less:
" If you can play, no one cares what instrument you use.
- If you can't play, no one cares what instrument you use."
There are enough versions of the mandolin to go around.
Anyone ever tried a Kerman mandolin against a BG banjo? According to Radim, they are LOUD.
Add Buzz Busby to the list.
Hughes F-5 #1
Hughes A model #1
1922 Gibson A-2
1958 Gibson A-5
I did mean Fender Guitar, just having fun, TIC=Tongue in Cheek. Just saying prefer Fat Gibson sound for Jazz. As many prefer the f-holes for Bluegrass. In the end, it’s the player that matters, of course.
Joe B
A Splendid Time is Guaranteed for All
Actually for the record, it's not a bowl back in that photo but an inexpensive bent-top flat-back instrument that I borrowed at the time. I do love oval hole mandolins and have used them on quite a few projects such as Acoustic Christmas ("What Child Is This?", Not For Kids Only ("Jenny Jenkins) and various tracks Tone Poems 1 & 2, as well as others through the years. Not to mention my old H-4 and K-4.
Cheers y'all!
What David didn't say was that in the old days, just about everybody except Monroe played oval hole mandolins. F-5's were few and far between, and many of the postwar instruments were not so good.
An awful lot of records were made on those old oval hole Gibsons.
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