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I've been learning an number of sax and trumpet solos recently. I find some trumpet players play in a register very similar to mando and some of their solos sit on the fingerboard very well.
25 years or so ago, I transcribed a bunch of western swing trumpet solos off of Asleep At The Wheel, Bob Wills, etc. records. Played on mandolin, they sounded a lot like the swingy mando stuff Ricky Skaggs played back then (on mandolin) when he was with playing J.D. Crowe and/or Boone Creek.
If you take Johnny Hodges alto sax solos and put them on to electric guitar, using string bending, it sounds similar to Richard Thompson. My brother was doing some of that. On the other hand, when RT played some Django tunes on his strat, with a lot of bending, it sounded like Johnny Hodges playing electric guitar.
Or.... Richard Thompson electric guitar solos put onto acoustic mandolin have a lot in common with Clarence White acoustic guitar stuff ("I Am A Pilgrim"..) put onto acoustic mando.
Without the cross-fertilization that comes from using various different "source instruments", one would miss out on a lot of these "connections".
Niles H.
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