A new found friend who plays fiddle gave me her old mandolin! Yippee!!
It's a basic A style mando. Probably chinese as I can't find a makers name on it. But it stays in tune and is fun to play. Now I can record a melody with the mando, record a harmony with my guitar and add a bodhran track. Not to mention a fiddle track when she comes over to play.
I'm stoked.
I have a good buddy been playing with for years now who wears the Dylan harmonica thing there and plinks on the mando. He switches the mando from lead to backing while I fiddle, and play the tune on the harmonica too, great fun, we make a nice little sound there. Enjoy!
Congratulations, A gift of a mandolin was what set me up for playing the tunes all those years ago. But remember fiddlers and tune players are two a penny , a guitarist who understands trad is a rare find. So keep at it.
Oh yeah, I'll never stop playing my Martin for a chinese Mandolin. But I'm glad I have something to play melody with. I think it'll help round my learning process so I know each tune inside and out.
I'm playing a lot of American trad (old time & bluegrass) these days too. The Blackest Crow, Flop-Eared Mule, Turkey in the Straw, Country Waltz and a few others.
I'm having a good time.
Well thats what matters A great instrument the mandolin. a bit too quiet for sessions larger than 2 or 3 mellow instruments. guitar picking and mando go well. mando/ guitar and harp. mando and a fiddle... just about.
I still remember that wonderful feeling when , the scale patterns were explained and I 'got it'.
Chords are great too. A friend plays jazz chords on the mando as well, to back up their songs. works really well. Turkey in the straw... some friends play that as a song I think....
My first mandolin was a gift from a friend. She got it from a teacher who had past away and left random instruments to previous students. She was not a mandolin player. I just happened to mention that I'd like to learn an instrument over the summer and it was given to me just like that.
When I finally bought my own, I passed that mandolin on to a nonprofit group that gives instruments to students who want to learn.
I have no idea where it is now, but I imagine that somewhere someone is plucking away at it.
It was a two point Ibanez.
Cool score Chris! I find the mandolin sound highly addictive I've had an octave mando for a couple of years and really enjoy playing tunes on it.
And llig, you're such a curmudgeon! You're not a vegetarian, are you? I have a vegetarian friend how is equally as irascible as you are. I'm absolutely sure his disposition would mellow dramatically if he occasionally feasted on red meat. BTW, he's also a teetotaler
A friend gave me a new toy to play with
A friend gave me a new toy to play with
A new found friend who plays fiddle gave me her old mandolin! Yippee!!
It's a basic A style mando. Probably chinese as I can't find a makers name on it. But it stays in tune and is fun to play. Now I can record a melody with the mando, record a harmony with my guitar and add a bodhran track. Not to mention a fiddle track when she comes over to play.
I'm stoked.
# Posted on May 12th 2008 by Fishmonger
Re: A friend gave me a new toy to play with
Plinkety plinkety plinkety! Happy plinkin' Fish!
I have a good buddy been playing with for years now who wears the Dylan harmonica thing there and plinks on the mando. He switches the mando from lead to backing while I fiddle, and play the tune on the harmonica too, great fun, we make a nice little sound there. Enjoy!
# Posted on May 12th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler
Re: A friend gave me a new toy to play with
Have fun with the egg-slicer.
Jez Lowe used to play and sing with a cittern and mouthorgan - it was good.
# Posted on May 12th 2008 by nicholas
Re: A friend gave me a new toy to play with
Congratulations, A gift of a mandolin was what set me up for playing the tunes all those years ago. But remember fiddlers and tune players are two a penny , a guitarist who understands trad is a rare find. So keep at it.
# Posted on May 12th 2008 by jig
Re: A friend gave me a new toy to play with
Oh yeah, I'll never stop playing my Martin for a chinese Mandolin. But I'm glad I have something to play melody with. I think it'll help round my learning process so I know each tune inside and out.
I'm playing a lot of American trad (old time & bluegrass) these days too. The Blackest Crow, Flop-Eared Mule, Turkey in the Straw, Country Waltz and a few others.
I'm having a good time.
# Posted on May 12th 2008 by Fishmonger
Re: A friend gave me a new toy to play with
Well thats what matters
A great instrument the mandolin. a bit too quiet for sessions larger than 2 or 3 mellow instruments. guitar picking and mando go well. mando/ guitar and harp. mando and a fiddle... just about.
I still remember that wonderful feeling when , the scale patterns were explained and I 'got it'.
Chords are great too. A friend plays jazz chords on the mando as well, to back up their songs. works really well. Turkey in the straw... some friends play that as a song I think....
# Posted on May 12th 2008 by jig
Re: A friend gave me a new toy to play with
My first mandolin was a gift from a friend. She got it from a teacher who had past away and left random instruments to previous students. She was not a mandolin player. I just happened to mention that I'd like to learn an instrument over the summer and it was given to me just like that.
When I finally bought my own, I passed that mandolin on to a nonprofit group that gives instruments to students who want to learn.
I have no idea where it is now, but I imagine that somewhere someone is plucking away at it.
It was a two point Ibanez.
# Posted on May 12th 2008 by abuteague
Re: A friend gave me a new toy to play with
Did you not wonder why your fiddle playing friend came to the position where she could give away her mandolin?
# Posted on May 12th 2008 by llig leahcim
Re: A friend gave me a new toy to play with
Could it be the strings were too hard on the hairs of the bow?
# Posted on May 13th 2008 by mactavish
Re: A friend gave me a new toy to play with
Cool score Chris! I find the mandolin sound highly addictive
I've had an octave mando for a couple of years and really enjoy playing tunes on it.
And llig, you're such a curmudgeon! You're not a vegetarian, are you? I have a vegetarian friend how is equally as irascible as you are. I'm absolutely sure his disposition would mellow dramatically if he occasionally feasted on red meat. BTW, he's also a teetotaler
# Posted on May 13th 2008 by gw
Re: A friend gave me a new toy to play with
ha, I just love a total tee hee
# Posted on May 13th 2008 by llig leahcim
Re: A friend gave me a new toy to play with
Self-infatuation is an ugly thing, llig.
# Posted on May 13th 2008 by TaoCat
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LOL LOL LOL :D
# Posted on May 14th 2008 by Fishmonger
Re: A friend gave me a new toy to play with
Just added "Ruby with the Eyes that Sparkle" which I first heard in the movie "Cold Mountain". Great movie!
# Posted on May 14th 2008 by Fishmonger
Re: A friend gave me a new toy to play with
Next up? How about Bonnie Blue Flag from "Gods and Generals"? Same theme, Irish tunes hidden in American Civil War music...
# Posted on May 15th 2008 by SWFL Fiddler