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    Quote Originally Posted by Tom C View Post
    Not really because playing an 4 string solid body emando, one's technique is more like elec
    guitar -bending...etc. - you wouldnt be playing fiddle tunes
    Are you sure about that?
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    ... you wouldnt be playing fiddle tunes

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    That's fun, I love it! Here's the embedded video:


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    That's awesome! I love it, it sounds totally western swing
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    Western Swing is a good destination for electric mandolins

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    Because I'm getting an amp and I enjoy playing mandolin family instruments more than I enjoy playing guitar. Double strings would sound more interesting through distortion and various effects. I'm considering buying a Squier and a kit from mortone to convert it to 4 or 5 courses. Wny do people play electric guitars when acoustic guitars sound good?

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    Of course you can play fiddle tunes on it…it’s a mandolin! Celtic rock anyone?
    With a light delay and Otto-Wah…
    Bending strings like Sam Bush does isn’t really easy on a standard mando scale length, even with single-string courses; I find it easier to use whatever passes for standard mandolin techniques in my dubious range.
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    Was recalling this discussion as the result of sharing a video onto our Instagram Profile. Márcio de Oliveira is a musician we enjoy following from state of Bahia, city of Salvador Brazil. We think his music is pretty rockin'. He also plays lots of guitar but has several nice electric mandolins which he certainly gets around on.


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    Electric mando starts about a minute in (acoustic starts it off). The electric has chorus and reverb on it.

    I don't use the electric too much, but it's pretty distinctive.

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    I play an electric mandolin because that's how I make music these days.

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    I thought this was the best defence of an electric mandolin that I have read/heard for a long long time

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    Please, who makes Little Big Mon pedal? (Photo in post #34) Because I checked the electroharmonix website and ebay
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    Quote Originally Posted by electric bassist View Post
    Please, who makes Little Big Mon pedal? (Photo in post #34) Because I checked the electroharmonix website and ebay
    Just a hunch but I think someone pulled a clever Photoshop pun on you. I approve!

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    I downloaded the "Big Mon" peddle image, enlarged it, took a screen shot, and it shows obvious Photoshop meddling if you look close where some words were removed and the cloning tool wasn't used very effectively to remove part of the logo. Also, the ending "N" is not properly aligned. Sorry to report, the "Little Big Mon peddle" exists only in someone's mind. LOL. This has Mike Edgerton all over it. That's my story on the culprit and I'm sticking with it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mandolin Cafe View Post
    I downloaded the "Big Mon" peddle image, enlarged it, took a screen shot, and it shows obvious Photoshop meddling if you look close where some words were removed and the cloning tool wasn't used very effectively to remove part of the logo. Also, the ending "N" is not properly aligned. Sorry to report, the "Little Big Mon peddle" exists only in someone's mind. LOL. This has Mike Edgerton all over it. That's my story on the culprit and I'm sticking with it.

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    Many thanks for the clarification - As only have a couple of mainstream pedals, yes, I was a believer that this kind of modulation had been done by some wizard probably at one of the innumerable now defunct pedal companies

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    Quote Originally Posted by mandos&turtles View Post
    I don’t get the point of electric mandolins. They don’t sound like mandolins to me. If I didn’t know someone was playing one I’d just assume I’m hearing an electric guitar. I’d like to hear others thoughts on the subject
    I'm not sure how I missed this - probably being somewhat off the Café until the covid shutdown freed up time and got me increasingly spending more time on the interweb had something to do with it - but I'm glad it's come back even if for a different reason. Reading through the thread, my eyes started glazing over, with so many posts extolling the virtues of electrics, many of which echoed my own insights. But truly, enough on-point answers appeared soon after the OP, including:

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    Why do I play electric mandolin? Like any other instrument. Because I can.
    This is the first answer, and it says pretty much all that needs to be said, other than "Because I want to."

    Quote Originally Posted by multidon View Post
    You could say exactly the same thing about guitars. Just substitute “guitar” for “mandolin” in your post. And yet the popularity of electric guitars far outpaces acoustic guitars in terms of units sold. And does anyone think an electric guitar sounds like an acoustic? Of course not.
    Very true. The construction and configuration of electric mandolins is as transformative as that of electric guitars. It's creating a whole other type of instrument with its own sound and capabilities. I think electric guitars were developed in order for them to be heard on a par with the other elements in brass-based combos and orchestras, and they weren't intended to be used the way rock 'n' rollers realized they could be in the 1950s. But people soon figured out there was more there there than originally intended, and the instrument took off and took over. Electric mandolins are not starting out from that far back in the evolution of amplified instruments; indeed, they are building on what has come before. Also, they are being heard in the context of a culture in which the sound(s) of electric guitars are so prevalent they are taken for granted. They're not only so varied, they're everywhere, and function as a standard against which other instruments are measured.

    Quote Originally Posted by Greg P. Stone View Post
    My main reason was to have the same scale and tuning in an instrument that sounds very different.
    This relates to what I was saying and leading up to, that playing an electric instrument which is set up the same way as an acoustic instrument one already knows how to play, opens up a whole new world of possibilities instantly. You don't have to learn how to play an electric guitar in order to gain access to this sonic universe. I think the best example of this is how Bela Fleck's electric banjo transformed what the instrument could do. Does it sound like an amplified banjo? Sometimes, if he wants, but it can do so much more. Does it sound like an electric guitar? Sometimes, but it's different, and he can play it the way he plays banjo (which is pretty innovative in its own right) and have it sound like - well, rock, or jazz, or swing, or whatever he wants.

    It's just that way for electric mandolins. They enable mandolinists to explore musical possibilities, to express musical ideas that they can't with acoustic mandolins, to realize the sounds they imagine in their minds. If they sound like electric guitars to some ears, that shouldn't be surprising, as those sounds are familiar to listeners since that instrument has been such a big part of our culture for so long. But not only are electric mandolins different, so are the people who play them, and these instruments make it possible for them to make their music heard. Welcome to the show! Vive la difference!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mandolin Cafe View Post
    I downloaded the "Big Mon" peddle image, enlarged it, took a screen shot, and it shows obvious Photoshop meddling if you look close where some words were removed and the cloning tool wasn't used very effectively to remove part of the logo. Also, the ending "N" is not properly aligned. Sorry to report, the "Little Big Mon peddle" exists only in someone's mind. LOL. This has Mike Edgerton all over it. That's my story on the culprit and I'm sticking with it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by journeybear View Post
    …. But not only are electric mandolins different, so are the people who play them…
    Whenever there’s a full moon I plug my mandolin into the grid and get different.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MikeEdgerton View Post
    You expect me to remember something I did that many years ago? I don't remember what I had for lunch yesterday. Here's the original. Oh, and I did that with MSPaint. I'm not a real sophisticated guy.
    But what do the knobs do? "Bark", "Woodiness", and "Punch"?

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    But what do the knobs do? "Bark", "Woodiness", and "Punch"?
    The knobs ain't no part of nuthin'.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mandolin Cafe View Post
    ...the "Big Mon" PEDAL image...
    Hey, ya can't peddle that stuff 'round here...!
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    Besides, who doesn't like loud angry fiddle tunes?
    A talent for trivializin' the momentous and complicatin' the obvious.

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    There's no 'point' in any musical instrument really, except do you like it or not? I don't like polite acoustic piano sounds, but millions disagree - that's just fine.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mandos&turtles View Post
    I don’t get the point of electric mandolins. They don’t sound like mandolins to me. If I didn’t know someone was playing one I’d just assume I’m hearing an electric guitar. I’d like to hear others thoughts on the subject
    The Electric Mandolin sound falls in between a Mandolin & an Electric Guitar. It's a little bit of a Darker & Mellower sound than an Acoustic Mandolin:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3JMGnUVzus because the pickup is picking up the vibrations of the strings.

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    Actually the 4 String Mandolin is an older idea, it's really an Electrified Cremonese Mandolin

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    Quote Originally Posted by s11141827 View Post
    Actually the 4 String Mandolin is an older idea, it's really an Electrified Cremonese Mandolin
    Or an electrified domra!
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