I love the sound of this OM. That tune is also great...apparently original. Who is this guy?!?
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.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.
Jim
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19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
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.
From video: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.
From store listing:
Jim
My Stream on Soundcloud
19th Century Tunes
Playing lately:
1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
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
My name is Rob, and I am Lord of All Badgers
Tenor Guitars: Acoustic: Mcilroy ASP10T, ‘59 Martin 0-18t. Electric: ‘57 Gibson ETG-150, ‘80s Manson Kestrel
Mandolins: Davidson f5, A5 "Badgerlin".
Bouzouki: Paul Shippey Axe
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