I had a hard time finding this on the forums. Apparently was buried in another thread on John. So for future searchers, this is a video done about John's Lloyd Loar 1924 mandolin.
https://vimeo.com/27348198
I had a hard time finding this on the forums. Apparently was buried in another thread on John. So for future searchers, this is a video done about John's Lloyd Loar 1924 mandolin.
https://vimeo.com/27348198
Great video. Thanks for posting in a dedicated thread.
Outstanding!
thanks for posting the Reischman video. Especially loved his demonstration of picking technique as it was something I stumbled upon early on myself .
Couldn't help but notice ( and I know this may be interpreted as blasphemous to some ) that Adam's ( Mandolin Store ) recent video of the lowly KM-150 illustrated some similar Loar-like tone ..ie ..nice and warm , round , dark and 'tubby' as I've heard tone described here. What I'm saying is that if you can't quite mortgage enough houses to purchase a Loar ....you may want to have a listen to that starter Kentucky for fun .
At 2:18 there is a view of the bridge, and the strings on two of the courses look to be not the same. In other views that show the strings they look the way mandolin strings usually look. Can someone explain this?
Riley
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Blueridge BR-142
The Loar LH-250
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I am so excited that I will be attending the Montana Old Time Fiddlers Camp in June and John is one of the mandolin instructors. I met him several years ago when I was a photographer for my local paper and was scared to death when he allowed me to play his Loar.
Great video and thanks for sharing this.
I've had the opportunity to see John play his mandolin up close a couple of times and talk to him about it, but this video was an eye opener. I really found it interesting to hear that he played with his pick on an angle. Tried it out just now and found that it does give the mandolin a rounder sound ... something I'm going to work on!
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I just tried playing with different pick angles. I agree that no angle is the brightest sound, but angling the pick the way John does seems to give a tone no different than angling it the opposite way, which is much easier for those without a "hyper-extended" thumb.
Any thoughts?
Riley
Kentucky KM-250
Guitars:
RainSong SMH
Blueridge BR-142
The Loar LH-250
Recording King RPS-9
A Strat and a Tele
I angle the opposite to John and I still find the tone is much 'thicker' and it cuts down on pick noise
It's true that his "backwards angle" is different from a regular forward angle because he's still right handed and has the same arm/wrist stroke angle as any other right hander. One would have to, however, acquire a beveled pick that had a left handed bevel on it to exactly replicate what he's doing. I played John's Loar a couple months ago with his pick and tried his angle and it was difficult, but rewarding all the same. Still a different sound than my BC TAD 60 with right handed bevel.
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I don't know if anyone else has this problem or not but I have never been able to get Vimeo videos to play well on my computer. The same video can be seen at youtube here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvB2P...2Sfn4dfFM147aL .
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I'm also fond of these two Reischman videos I found on Vimeo:
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Very nice, nkelkstadt! The ocean background soundscape is tremendous.
But Amsterdam was always good for grieving
And London never fails to leave me blue
And Paris never was my kinda town
So I walked around with the Ft. Worth Blues
I love Salt Spring! Very magical tune that reminds me of days gone by, friends long gone/passed away. Childhood memories of fishing and just playing on them there days that seeme to take a lifetime to finish! GREAT
Interesting video and story. Beautiful tone
Watching the string vibrations in the OP video intro, it seems that he is mostly only striking one string out of a pair. Up/down strokes are descernable. Is this due to light touch or pick angle?
Wouldn't that be interesting if that was the key to Reischman's tone. Actually, my guess is that you are just seeing the first string struck vibrating more, rather than solely, up the neck further away from where the strings are struck (video starts at the Florida and moves up from there). I imagine it would look that way with most people's technique, although Reischman's is unique.
John also mentioned to me that he tends to hold his mandolin very flat/horizontally as opposed to most players. So that would also affect the unique angle of his pick and stroke. He is just a geometrically great picker!
Mandolin, Guitar, & Bass for Doug Rawling & The Caraganas
www.dougrawling.com
2008 Kentucky KM-1000
2014 Martin D-28 Authentic 1937
1964 Gibson LG-0
2022 Sigma SDR-45VS
From Andrew - "John also mentioned to me that he tends to hold his mandolin very flat/horizontally as opposed to most players ". John Reischman is one of my 2 favourite players,not simply because he's a superb musician,but because of the wide range of music styles that he plays. When standing up to play,i hold my mandolin very much like JR,but as yet,the talent that JR exhibits has totally eluded me !,
Ivan
http://youtu.be/Em4tBeVTOpU "A Prairie Jewel" from JR's CD 'Walk Along John' - Totally,utterly,awsomely beautiful !
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