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Mandolin Mondays #160 w/ Special Guest Chris Henry

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This week on Mandolin Mondays the infamous Chris Henry brings us a South American melody played in 432 tuning on his Randy Wood F5 mandolin.



No one takes the rooted tradition of Bill Monroe to new frontiers quite like Chris Henry. Over the years, Chris has played with just about everyone in the bluegrass scene, including Audie Blaylock, Shawn Camp, Peter Rowan, and many more. He now tours worldwide, fronting his own bluegrass band Chris Henry and The Hardcore Grass.

His 2006 mandolin instrumental album Monroe Approved produced by Butch Baldassarri demonstrates his raw virtuosic traditional style with a unique forward tilt. Check it out here: https://www.amazon.com/Monroe-Approv.../dp/B000IONO6U

Be sure to connect with Chris at the following links below for more information about his music and performance schedule:

https://christopherhenry.net/
https://www.facebook.com/hardcoregrass/

And as always, tune in next week for more Mandolin Mondays! Until then...

Happy Picking!
David

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Comments

  1. Mandolin Cafe's Avatar
    Ah, some good ol' Chris Henry mandolin on this cold midwestern day warms the soul. Glad to have you here, Chris!
  2. Timbofood's Avatar
    What’s “432” tuning?
  3. JimKo's Avatar
    Nice tune. Never seen plants in a Mandolin Mondays video. Just wondering what they are? From South America?
  4. EvanElk's Avatar
    That was great!
  5. sliebers's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by Timbofood
    What’s “432” tuning?
    A string tuned from 440Hz down to 432Hz and other strings in relation. Supposed to be the frequency of the universe.
  6. oliverkollar's Avatar
    SO AWESOME!

    Thanks for that Chris, I really enjoyed it.
  7. William Smith's Avatar
    I believe 432 is what the earth and everything is tuned to! Birds, nature etc.. Then came the Nazis "supposedly by the minister of propaganda" and changed it to 440 because it agitates everything that's not natural and that for some reason is what we all go with? CRAZY yes! David Harvey and myself had a long talk about this and he also said the one gospel band The Isaacs did a whole cd in the 432 tuning and now that's all they play! Hope not to offend anyone but this is a strange conspiracy theory! I couldn't believe it when David said the Nazi's changed it and we go with it? But is it truth or just happenstance/conspiracy?
    Updated Jan-22-2019 at 5:33am by William Smith
  8. oliverkollar's Avatar
    Quote Originally Posted by JimKo
    Nice tune. Never seen plants in a Mandolin Mondays video. Just wondering what they are? From South America?
    https://medium.com/samadhi-today/chi...n-680a74e4b31b
  9. maudlin mandolin's Avatar
    432.5 was the pitch of the first tuning fork invented by John Shore in 1711.
    Sir James Swinburne argued for 440 to be adopted as concert pitch on mathematical grounds at an international conference in 1938/9 after it was originally suggested by Schielbler in 1826 at Stuttgart.
    Not sure what the Nazis have to do with all this.