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May 2004
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Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | On Friday nights a French language TV station up here has a show featuring musical duets - piano and bass, or sax and drums, or whatever.
Last Friday featured Canadian Kevin Breit (pronounced "bright") and a bass player. Breit played slide and fingerpicking on a National resonator with a translucent yellow pickguard, and also played a mandocello and a mandolin. He's quite the fretboard whiz. His music is hard to categorize, but is tinged with jazz and blues.
It's the first time I've ever seen or heard a mandocello. An exotic sounding beast, to say the least. Would love to get my hands on one of those.
Oh, and Tim, I checked a web site about him (typed his name into a search engine), and apparently he also plays a baritone 5-string banjo and something called a banjolin, among other instruments. | |
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January 2002
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Mandochellow is a great instrument, espacially the roundback one since you can plug it in!
I love resonators when they play jazz oriented stuff or anything else than what the public thinks as the norm. It adds a whole new demension to the music. | |
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August 2003
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Location: Yucaipa, California | ...banjolin!... and I thought I was strange...ok, well, the CNN Exit Poll is leaning in that direction... :rolleyes:
...but any instrument thingy with "banj" in the name must be very cool! :cool: :cool:
but, seriously folks, a banjolin is just a mandolin neck attached to a banjo body... 8 mando strings, tuned as a mando.... very cool sound :cool: | |
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December 2002
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Location: Fort Worth, Texas | My friend, Mike, that lives in CT. (he and his wife made it to the Tour Jam that night) bought a banjolin in an antique store. Came with a case, and had "Made in Great Britain" stamped on the head. He completely took it apart and put it back together, added new strings and plays it to this day! In the case were some lyric sheets that were "Songs for our Troops" that as far as we could discern were from WWI.
Whenever the next tour is we'd like to host a jam at his place sometime over that weekend. They have lots of land around their place and a barn that would be perfect to set up in....
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National resonator, mandocello, etc.