I love the sound of this OM. That tune is also great...apparently original. Who is this guy?!?
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I love the sound of this OM. That tune is also great...apparently original. Who is this guy?!?
Ok, the player is Tom Kimber....but what is he playing?
The one I see on YouTube is a Flatiron. Oops, wrong video. I was reading a mandola thread... is it this one below? He calls it an octave mandolin but in the notes under the video he says it is a cittern (10 strings).
By the logo it looks like it was made by UK luthier Tom Buchanan like this one. Here is his web site.Quote:
I bought this instrument as a cittern (it has 5 courses) but currently have it tuned as an octave mandolin/bouzouki, GDAD. I've not been playing it enough, so wrote this tune for it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuMj9tCMa7s
You recognize the maker? Looks like he removed the e strings to call it an OM.
I recognize the logo. And the description from this store page above told me who made it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Buesseler
From video:Quote:
Handmade from all solid timbers by one of the UK's premier Luthiers Tom Buchanan. The Buchanan Cittern features a solid spruce top, cherry back and sides, mahogany neck, Gotoh machine heads with black buttons, bone nut and saddle and a gloss finish. Scale length 500mm.
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From store listing:
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Yes, that's a buchanan. My first zouk was a Buchanan. I also sold one of his tenor guitars and maybe shouldn't have seeing as it was short scale. He sells instruments via Hobgoblin in the UK, so not mega bucks - very much entry level 'good' as opposed to mass produced entry level.
I know Tom Kimber. Awesome player. His main weapons are a Davidson F5 and a tenor banjo of Phil's too.
Tom plays with this band