This is great.
This is great.
He sure makes that bowlback sound good, huh?
Carlo and Lorenzo are da bomb!!!
Phil Vinyard
Gibson Jam Master F Standard #12 May 13, 2009
Gibson Model A #67336 ca. 1921
Harwood Bowlback ca. 1900
Trinity College TM-325 Octave Mandolin
Freshwater Mandocello
Krutz 200 Upright Bass
And the elephant in the room, what a great two point mando-bass. Yeee haaa.
Wowzers!
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That is a Vega mandobass owned by a friend of mine associated with the Milwaukee Mandolin Orchestra.
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
OK some more:
Playing without a strap is only for Italians (or inside dent people [that can rest the mandolin on an indenture in the body]). How does he do that? Anybody knows? Enlighten me!
I was sold on Carlo Aonzo ever since his colaboration with Beppe Gambetta on Serenata (1997) and of course the must listen to Traversata (2001). What a great musician!
Olaf
That Giacomel guitar is quite a unique design!
While perhaps not to everyone's taste, and requiring various degrees of deliberate effort, it is not a total mystery.
No straps for this Irishman living in Cornwall, while not lardy, middle age means I’m not convex either. The instrument is designed to be held like this. The same works with the arch tops as they have a longer scale so the hands can remain in the same position with the body tucking further towards the elnow. It’s not even gripped it just rests there with no effort at all. Wonderful design, which like any tool work well when you hold it well.
Eoin
"Forget that anyone is listening to you and always listen to yourself" - Fryderyk Chopin
I saw them perform these numbers and simply put, they were GREAT! Just can't figure out how they get pass customs dressed like that. I get the once or sometimes twice over most of the time by customs dressed in my most muted cloths.
Big Muddy EM8 solid body (Mike Dulak's final EM8 build)
Kentucky KM-950
Weber Gallatin A Mandola "D hole"
Rogue 100A (current campfire tool & emergency canoe paddle)
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