Was watching this Merle Haggard video when this Tiny mandolin surprise came on about 8:57.
The video won't play as an embedded video on another site so here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeWY00gTCvo
Was watching this Merle Haggard video when this Tiny mandolin surprise came on about 8:57.
The video won't play as an embedded video on another site so here is the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jeWY00gTCvo
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
That’s quite a mandolin
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Sounds like an electric guitar to me.
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Tiny Moore is well kmown for that style of electric mandolin. I think he also had one with a Bigbsy on it. Quite unique and strange to say, the body scroll going the other way quite suits the whole thing. Yeah it is like an 'octave above' guitar. The sort of thing that's ideal for someone who plays lead mandolin, cant play lead guitar but this is their way of fitting in with an electric band. There's lots of us like that.
Not a mandolin as we know it but it takes all kinds as they say.
Coincidence? I came across this watching Roy Clark videos yesterday. Tiny shines at @ 1:50
I love the story Glen Campbell told about figuring out the guitar leads to a song not knowing Tiny was playing it on a mandolin.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
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I was surprised to see him using a copy on the second video posted. Then again Willie Nelson isn't playing Trigger in the first video.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
I count 5 tuners on that thing.
That's what it had when Paul Bigsby built it for him.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Last edited by Chief; Mar-29-2020 at 2:06pm.
Chief. Way up North. Gibson 1917 A model with pickup. JL Smith 5 string electric. 1929 National Triolian resonator mandolin with pickup. National RM 1 with pickup. Ovation Applause. Fender FM- 60 E 5 string electric (with juiced pickups). 1950's Gibson EM-200 electric mandolin. 1954 Gibson EM-150 electric mandolin. Custom made "Jett Pink" 5 string electric- Bo Diddley slab style. Jay Roberts Tiny Moore model 5 string electric.
This is kinda a must see.
I wonder if he ever played this one? It does say he owned it.
Last edited by MikeEdgerton; Apr-01-2020 at 1:03pm.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
Well, he apparently owned the Tarver for a while; who knows, maybe he gigged with it a little.
Video and photo evidence suggest there were at least two different Roberts mandolins with "TINY" on the pickguard; one is at Skip's Music in Sacramento and one is in a museum. Sometimes he played a third Roberts with a plain pickguard.
Paul Buskirk's 10-string Bigsby also had a tremolo bar.
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Three fairly decent pickers there. You know, sometimes I think I'm a pretty good musician, and then I see a clip like that and realize just how limited I really am. Something to shoot for I guess. They say you should never be satisfied with your abilities, and should always strive to improve. Oh, I attended a workshop that Jethro Burns led back in the 80's, and I have to say he was truly one of the nicest, most friendly people I've ever met. A real gentleman.
Last edited by Chief; Apr-01-2020 at 3:16pm.
Chief. Way up North. Gibson 1917 A model with pickup. JL Smith 5 string electric. 1929 National Triolian resonator mandolin with pickup. National RM 1 with pickup. Ovation Applause. Fender FM- 60 E 5 string electric (with juiced pickups). 1950's Gibson EM-200 electric mandolin. 1954 Gibson EM-150 electric mandolin. Custom made "Jett Pink" 5 string electric- Bo Diddley slab style. Jay Roberts Tiny Moore model 5 string electric.
And there was this.
Jethro Burns on guitar is allways great. I wish I knew how to play chords like that.
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