Kimble H5 You Tube Video

**Gary Hedrick** · Nov-26-2012, 10:13am

Well I finally decided to post a video of my prized toy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaFlF...eature=mh_lolz

**cayuga red** · Nov-26-2012, 11:44am

Originally Posted by Gary Hedrick

Well I finally decided to post a video of my prized toy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaFlF...eature=mh_lolz

FABULOUS INSTRUMENT!!! Thanks for posting.

**Bernie Daniel** · Nov-26-2012, 11:57am

As many times as I've talked to Will Kimble I don't think he ever mentioned that H-5 -- and I guess I never asked. I did think about asking him about the feasibility making one but I don't think I ever did.

It sounds great like all of his instruments. Great tone! Nice playing too.

Next time I see Will I'm going to ask about the mandola scroll --it is a distinctly different profile from the mandolin and this was true on the Loar's as well. The topic came up in another thread a week ago and now I know who can give me a very informed answer on the subject!

**Gary Hedrick** · Nov-26-2012, 12:46pm

Bernie, I owned mandola #47 and sold it to order the H5. I had the good fortune to play 2 of the 3 H5's that Will made. Both of the those owners had or did at that time own Loar H5's. They gushed about how they liked their Kimbles. This experience was at one of the picking session/mandolin expos that I have hosted over the years. I could not put those H5's down. They captivated me not to say that #47 isn't a great instrument but these are just that notch above the crowd.

I forget about the second batch of mandola's he make....I think there were 3 or so of them with perhaps one of them being a two point (owned by one of the more prolific quality posters on this forum).

Anyway Willl is the man when it comes to the shorter scale mandolas.

I do have fun playing a mandola once in a while at a picking session. I get some very interesting reactions.....I have seen a couple of folks refuse to play it in that the shift of a 5th threw off their picking land marks. With me I play a lot out of chord positions (I was taught by a fiddle player who is a double stop genius) so it is just a matter of shifting a set of strings.

As for the playing....Mike Whitehead I am not......so Will's instrument suffers a handicap when compared with the video of Lynn's lovely creation. But those instruments are really two different animals.....the longer scale of Lynn's (I would think) fits the true mandola players of the Cafe better but Will's instrument is a study in perfection.