Re: Advice on a Mandola?
I had a Gibson H1 (tenor) mandola years ago. It was a basket-case, so broken up I thought I was buying a mandolin until I got it home. I spent a lot on restoring it but I never liked the tubby sound or the too chunky neck profile so I sold it on. I thought that was it for me on mandolas until I tried a Girouard f-hole tenor mandola in TAMCO in Brighton. I loved the sound but did not buy it. However I recently bought a similar Girouard mandola via the Cafe and I am very pleased with it. In fact, I find the tone so deep and resonant that it makes my mandolins sound thin by comparison and I play little else these days. The ADGC tuning would make me a pariah in Irish pub sessions but, as those are all suspended now, I will keep luxuriating in the deep mandola vibe.
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mainly Irish & Scottish but open to all dance-oriented melodic music.
Mandos: Gibson A2, Janish A5, Krishot F5, Taran Springwell, Shippey, Weber Elite A5; TM and OM by Dave Gregory, J E Dallas, Tobin & Davidson.
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