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Re: “Other” guitars ...

Postby Dandolin » Sun May 31, 2020 11:39 am

Here's a sweet Taschenmandoline (pocket mandolin):

https://reverb.com/item/33894923-vintag ... ack-1900-s

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Postby mathias » Sun May 31, 2020 11:44 am

Oh neat. I also have a saved search for the Loar mandolins in Reverb, but I’m not sure when I’ll be able to pick one up. (I haven’t had a mandolin before, either — they seem like a ton of fun.)
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Postby Dandolin » Sun May 31, 2020 3:00 pm

The Gold Tones are pretty nice if you want new....
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Postby Heraclitus Akimbo » Sun May 31, 2020 7:34 pm

Here's one for your bandcamp wishlists, a new album from Omar Bongo, a Toronto-based Kaban (Oud) player in the Somali idiom(s).

2019 by Omar Bongo

(His previous album Gor Gor is also available as a name-your-price download. Recommended!)
solo (mostly ambient): https://heraclitusakimbo.bandcamp.com/
duo (electroacoustic vibration exploration): https://wenderlypark.bandcamp.com/
trio (tapes/voice/clarinet/synth/poems): https://ourwaytofall.bandcamp.com/
band (spontaneous kosmische): https://stargoon.bandcamp.com/

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Postby Dandolin » Mon Jun 01, 2020 12:25 pm

Noice - I dig that Sudanese percussionist :love:
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Postby Phosphene Audio » Fri Jul 03, 2020 6:54 am

I finally put a piezo in it. This is a brief excerpt from a longer thing. The percussion sounds are just tapping on the body, though also put through a ring mod.











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Postby coldbrightsunlight » Fri Jul 03, 2020 8:35 am

Sounds fantastic!! :!!!:
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Postby Chankgeez » Fri Jul 03, 2020 9:19 am

Diggin' that body. :)*
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Postby Blackened Soul » Fri Jul 03, 2020 11:27 am

Cool! I made something similar years ago but is was sort of a banjo in the worst of ways :lol:
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Postby Chankgeez » Fri Jul 03, 2020 2:16 pm

psychic vampire. wrote:The important take away from this thread: Taoism and Ring Modulators go together?
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Postby Dandolin » Fri Jul 03, 2020 3:40 pm

yesh :love:
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Postby Phosphene Audio » Mon Aug 17, 2020 5:16 pm

I bought a 6 course lute from Cankaya Music in Turkey. They aren't a full fledged pro instrument, but are reported to be way better than the 99% of the entry level lutes out there.

It sounds good, but I broke the high string immediately.

Typical 6 course tuning is G C F A D G.

To make guitar fingerings work, I'm doing G C F Bflat D G.

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Postby Dandolin » Mon Aug 17, 2020 6:06 pm

Cool! I've been eyeing those - they look very good. Was a bit worried about things I heard about action and heaviness of build, but I honestly think some of the people bagging on them are conflating them with the more prevalent Roosebecks which everyone seems to hate.... Keep going back and forth about splashing on something on the Dartmouth lutes-for-sale page or just trying out a Sandi/Cankaya.... :idk:
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Re: “Other” guitars ...

Postby niftyprose » Tue Aug 18, 2020 10:48 am

Surprised not to find more discussion of mandolins in this thread. Although the number of companies producing both mandos and guitars is limited, the two share a lot of genetics and it's easy for a guitarist from Europe or the US to judge a decent mandolin on first encounter. The two instruments overlap in all sorts of ways but the mando has the particular advantage of being small and portable. Check out emando.com for an exhaustive listing of makers of electric instruments.

A separate one for long-scale/doublecourse fans: many Greek bouzoukis pre-1960 or so are 'trichordos', that is, six-stringed. (Photos are misleading because the makers used to install cheap four-on-a-plate mandolin tuners and leave two unused, so many apparent 8-strings are in fact trichordos.) This might sound like my obsession talking but actually the trichordo tuned traditionally in a fifth and a fourth D-A-D is vastly more fun to play and very rock-n-roll with that modal ambiguous tonality going on.
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Re: “Other” guitars ...

Postby coldbrightsunlight » Tue Aug 18, 2020 2:57 pm

DAD sounds like a lot of fun!

Personally I love the sound of mandolins but I can't get down with them because I find them too small to play. I could definitely get down with a mandola / other larger instrument in the same style. The bouzouki sounds very cool for this.
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