Forgive... if this has been posted before, but I'm wondering if anybody knows the detes on this little clip. #Wonderful tune. Alternate tuning? #Know the make of the mando? #That's the song I want to play when somebody says, "What does an octave mandolin sound like?"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFqThPZejTA
I read more carefully on the guys youtube site -- the tune is original. He's good!
Looks like standard tuning to me. He does a few progressions up the neck at one point where it look like he is doing power chords (root and 5th) on the G & D. Nice playing and excellent sound recording. A lot of YouTube videos suffer from poor sound or bad lighting. This one is well done.
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The OM looks to me like it may be a custom Weber, but its hard to tell.
Having 8" fingers prolly doesn't hurt either...
I've seen a couple of his clips and he's obviously very talented and the sound quality is so good I almost thought he was playing along with a CD or sumpthin'
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Nice. I really like that OM sound ... makes me want to get one for sure.
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That really is nice.
The OM looks like a Weber Bridger with the rosewood side & back upgrade.
Looks like standard tuning from the chord shapes.
Sounds like standard, too. Looks to me like a Weber, also.
And he's playing fingerstyle, which you don't see that often. Very nice.
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