Oy...bowl back! not the other word
Oy...bowl back! not the other word
Here you go -- one of my first and favorite arrangements for the Ecco Mandolin Ensemble, Traveller's Prayer by John Renbourn, performed on all L&H Instruments (the dola, cello, and bass from the...
"I'm a journalist who is writing an article about the NY Mandolin Orchestra which is celebrating its centenary in April. I would like suggestions for books, articles, material etc. about the history...
Iirc, Paul Ruppa, of the Minnesota Mandolinn Orchestra, has written some about mandolin orchestras and their histories. Might do a search on something like "Paul Ruppa and the mandolin"? And/or,...
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Finally the L&H MC label
Thank you so much for this post. I'm really glad to have the orchestra's photo validated as the 'New York' Freiheit through your recognition of people. There was also a Freiheit Mandolin Orchestra in...
Let's have some of Norman in his prime!
https://youtu.be/IA2CtM1B1Ak
With the number of views, I suspect this hasn’t been posted on the Café forum before, with Mike Marshall playing a Berg 10 string mandocello:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZWwrL-2uS8
BTW I no...
My first Mandolin (Neapolitan) is waiting for it`s Red Aquila strings to be fitted . The tiny bracket I removed had no angle at the top so the strings were biting into the purfling and scraping the...
Unfortunately, I suspect you'll be much harder pressed to find recordings of the others—the Mozart and Beethoven pieces—on 6-string/6-course instruments. I've seen some amateur videos shot by...
Elsewhere, mandopops lamented:
I began reply . . . Lots of recordings of the Vivaldi works on 6-course instruments. Some of my favorites are by Il Giardino Armonico primary soloist Duilio...
I feel compelled to comment a bit on the content of this url. It states that "the [six-course mandolino] was no longer used after around 1740. Only recently has the Mandolino been revived."
This...
I've been away from the cafe for a few days so I missed this, but Eugene is correct. I'm pretty sure that they were playing Neapolitan mandolins. The mandolin came here from Italy by way of England,...
My transcription of Etude Op.45 Nr.4 by Franz Wohlfahrt (1833-1884), originally written for violin but also useful for mandolin. In the preface to Etudes Op.45 the maestro says:
If practiced...
Here's my anon. French mandolin, likely from the first half of the 19th c. It's only a little anachronistic, and I still apply the historic stringing from the 18th-c. method books to it. Not easy...
Neil notes that "Among the composers [Gualdo] played was Emanuele Barbella." Barbella often designated his works for "violino o mandolino," and his music was written for and certainly fits the...
I'm old but wasn't yet born in the 1700's but I admire your interest in keeping it real. :)
I'd probably grab a bowlback with no brand name on it just for the look.
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Good new demo of the one that's currently for sale.
https://youtu.be/mVP-vu6ffRM
I just read that Norman Blake turned 86 on 10th March, and I would like to wish him well.
I saw him play on my first trip to the USA in 1977, and have always enjoyed him ever since.
Thanks for...
A few nice nuggets of information from the site Mike linked to, filling in a bit more on the 20s scene in Chicago, particularly JR Stewart:
"The Le Domino model was the brainchild of James R....
Actually, Brad that is EXACTLY what I want to do. Produce a concert/talk where my group (Ecco Mandolin Ensemble) plays a piece or two on the L&H set and then another few tunes on my Gibson set. You...
The tone when you tune your mandolin to A-G-E-D?
Tenor Banjo music is now written an octave higher than it sounds, i.e. The low C on the mandola is notated as middle C. That makes tenor banjo music accessible to mandola-ists
Greg Keeing has...
I agree 100%. Other obvious examples are: Short left-over F4/F2 neck blanks were used on f-hole mandolins in the 1930s on models F7, F10 and F12 (which moved the bridge further towards the tail piece...
I think that is the accepted wisdom, and knowing the Gibson Company, it makes perfect sense. Loar left Gibson because the big prject to restimulate the market -- the F5 -- didn't go over with...