This just goes to show you, a good set of hands can make almost any mandolin sound like a little gem...
Michael Daves, well done man...
This just goes to show you, a good set of hands can make almost any mandolin sound like a little gem...
Michael Daves, well done man...
Well, it is a deluxe model.
Thanks for posting, that was a pleasure to hear!
That looks like a Harmony mandolin.
"It's comparable to playing a cheese slicer."
--M. Stillion
"Bargain instruments are no bargains if you can't play them"
--J. Garber
This is incredible...
Ok, I'll stop now.
Hey I thought it was really good...
"It's the singer, not the song."
Billy Packard
Gilchrist A3, 1993
Stiver Fern, 1990
Weber Fern, 2007
Gibson F4 Hybrid #1, D. Harvey 2009
Gibson 1923 A2
Numerous wonderful guitars
Well,for me,it illustrates one thing - one person's ''little gem'' is another person's over-twangy,thin sounding mandolin - the performance however was pretty good,
Ivan
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
I've played one of those. It wasn't bad. I didn't get the music he gets out of it, of course.
Are they recording duets? This (guitar/mando, male/female) is, I think, my favorite ensemble type.
That guy seems to be all about cheaper instruments. I think his guitars are lower-end models. Great player.
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There is 'something' about ''el cheapo'' instruments if you can find a good sounding one. I've often wondered about the guitar that David Rawlings plays. What is it,is it an inexpensive or expensive guitar. I can't find any close up pics.of it ?.
One of my favourite finger style guitarists,John Fahey,was renowned for playing pretty cheap instruments,
Ivan
Weber F-5 'Fern'.
Lebeda F-5 "Special".
Stelling Bellflower BANJO
Tokai - 'Tele-alike'.
Ellis DeLuxe "A" style.
'Wielding his unmistakable 1935 Epiphone archtop, Rawlings showcases a little of that improvisational, single-note-driven playing, riffing off his recent sophomore release as Dave Rawlings Machine, Nashville Obsolete. The songwriter is almost never seen with any other instrument, and, as it turns out, it wasn't a purchase from some luxury vintage guitar shop — it was scavenged from the dirt of a friend's attic.
"I just picked it up. It was filthy, and it didn't have strings," he says. "You could just see the shape of it under the sawdust." Rawlings took it home, tuned it up and brought it to the recording session for the first Gillian Welch record, Revival. It was the last instrument he tried in the studio, but he's barely put it down since.'
Funnily, i copied this from the same article that your image illustrated
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...eries-20151014
[QUOTE=Caleb;1518505]That guy seems to be all about cheaper instruments. I think his guitars are lower-end models. Great player.[/QUOTE
There's a man I know sort of semi-professal that always played higher end mandolins and a different one every time I saw him. The last time I saw him, he was playing an Eastman. I asked what was with that. He told me he had been listening to recording he had made and whatever he was playing it sounded like him, so why buy expensive instruments. A lot of truth in that but most of us keep looking for the ONE that will make us sound fantastic. As was said it ain't the song it's the singer.
Wasn't el-cheapo when it as built, either. Mid-level, I'd guess. Michael Daves' guitar sure was, though. Not sure about the Schutt-designed Harmony. Course most Harmony stuff was affordable.
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