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Clyde Mattocks
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Posted 10 Sep 2014 7:42 am |
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Really nice adaptation there, Alan.
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Peter Huggins
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Peter Huggins
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Van Nuys, California, USA
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Posted 12 Sep 2014 9:47 am
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BTW, I was wrong earlier on in this thread when I stated that Eshol Cosby's Bigsby mandolin was a 4 string. It is an 8 string.
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Jack Harper
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Posted 28 Dec 2014 8:37 pm
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if this worked here is a hand made 5 string mandocaster that Louis "brother" neathery, from Fiske union, louisiana built about 20 years ago from scrap walnut strips and a busted up fender. I hope it was not a broadcaster.... he doesn't play it, but, he loaned it to me to learn how on. it will take a long time, tho', I'm a slow learner. thanks "brother"
country jack.... |
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Steve Green
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Gulfport, MS, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 4:53 am
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| Darrell Criswell wrote: |
| why do most electric mandolins have only four strings while all acoustic ones to my knowledge have 8? |
I noticed that in the photo of Tiny's mandolins, two are 5 string models. How is a 5 string model tuned?
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Jack Harper
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Mississippi, USA
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 7:50 am
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I tune from top down / C-G-D-A-E
the bottom 4 are standard mandolin tuning.
there are some other variations.
but I'm simple. also,that was tiny's tuning.
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Jerry Hayes
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Virginia Beach, Va.
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 8:25 am
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| A very interesting instrument. I don't understand why some builders build electric mandolines with single courses. Without the double courses they just sound like a guitar played high up the fingerboard. They don't sound at all like mandolines. |
Hey Alan, I had an Epiphone solid body 4 string mandolin for awhile and I agree that they do sound like a high fretted guitar but what I'd do to compensate for that when doing a bluegrass tune was just stomp on my chorus pedal and it gave it a very nice 8 string touch with the right setting... I'm currently playing a Gibson F-style with a piezo bridge pickup but I have one of those reissues of the old Fender 4 string solid body mandolins on order from Musician's Friend. I intend to start using it at gigs and give my Gibson a rest. I'll be doing the Chorus pedal thing with it like I did with the Epiphone. I was going to convert my 8 string A Style Fender to a 5 string but that's on hold for now. Here's a shot of the Fender I have on order, should be here by Friday........JH in Va.
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Barry Blackwood
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Posted 29 Dec 2014 9:48 am
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I was fortunate enough to play a series of casual gigs with Tiny Moore and all I can say is man, they just don't make 'em like that anymore.. 
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Ron Whitfield
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Kaaawa, Hawaii, USA
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Posted 30 Dec 2014 3:37 pm
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| That same issue has some good steel content as well, forgot who it was on but typically fine coverage by FJ. |
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Jon Light
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Saugerties, NY
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 31 Dec 2014 9:35 am
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That's a great piece of music, Jon.  |
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 1 Jan 2015 8:28 am
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nice music/playing on that video!!!!
i think that this year, i will build an approximation of that bigsby mando he is playing. i like that!
biggest problem is the pickups. there are some copies being made, but at $250 or so a pop..thats $500 right there!! have to come up with something else. |
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Alan Brookes
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Brummy living in Southern California
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Posted 1 Jan 2015 5:45 pm
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I'm not so sure that extra-expensive pickups are as noticeably different as is generally thought. I've tested people with expensive and cheapo pickups and most of the time they can't tell the difference. Amplifier settings can do wonders.  |
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Bill Hatcher
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Atlanta Ga. USA
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Posted 2 Jan 2015 6:36 am
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i was thinking more along the lines of appearance. nothing looks like a bigsby pickup. it is made from aluminum castings!
you could make the cast base out of maple and then spray paint it with aluminum paint and it would look decent.
make a oval bigsby looking aluminum top, use black allen head screws and affix the top to an aftermarket pickup. |
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Gary C. Dygert
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Frankfort, NY, USA
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Posted 17 Jan 2015 8:25 pm
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1951 Bigsby 10-string mandolin.
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