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Location: Upper Left USA | I have a question for the board. Please pardon my ignorance on some of this.
I am enjoying my time being fickle with my twelve string flavor testing. From a Pacemaker to a Custom Legend 12 to the Cadillac Green 1598 and on to ??? I would like to play one of the Mandocellos!
Does a Mandocello play at all like a guitar or is it a totally different animal? Will I have to learn a totally new approach or is there enough that lends itself to a “strummer” and “Fingerpicker”?
Who wants to send me one to practice with?
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Location: south east Michigan | When I first put my fingers on the fretboard of a soprano uke I thought I made a mistake in buying one. Not anymore. It's coming along just fine.
I think playing another instrument can keep things fresh. Go for it Woody! |
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Location: closely held secret | Just missed this one .
You might check with mrgolf and see if he still has it. original post |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Woody,
Not Old Man-do. |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Mr. Golf (Kurt Roddy) lives about 15 miles away and has shown me his little Harem! Great guy!
What I am looking towards is the Mandocello. They are twice the scale as a Mandolynn as a retired Gas station owner once said.
I did get Gas Bubbles looking at Kurt's ebay offering though. I could save $35 on shipping! |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | I'm not sure what you mean by different (from a guitar). If you mean as to tuning, it has a totally different tuning from a guitar; but other than that, if you're used to playing a 12 string I can't see any problem adapting to a mandocello. I think just being strummed it sounds delightful. I've considered going the mando route but life is short, so I focus on the guitar, with occasional forays into the bass and samisen. The samisen is totally different, there aren't even any frets! |
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Location: Upper Left USA | I still need frets!!! |
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Location: Tulsa, Oklahoma | If ya got big hands the Mandolin is not easy to begin with... (I've got Big Hands)... The chords are easy to learn but the short scale is tough for me... I played a Mandocello a couple of weeks ago and am looking at getting one of those and seeing if it will throw the same sound into the mixes I'm recording... If it does I'm going to sell the Mandolin..... |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Woodrow, the mandoC is great but quite a different animal from a guitar and mandolinne, you've got two sets of wound strings, 80/60/40/20. Chords with a stretch and a bottom string will make you aware of how easy you have it when you play guitar, even a 12 string. That said you still need one, they are just a great big sound, tuned with a bass C and up in 5ths from there. |
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Location: SoCal | Woody, Ya know I've been looking for one too.
If we find one, we can share it? |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Thanks guys,
Bill, you never fail at reaching down and giving me tremendous GAS pains. You still have the touch!
If I can get a hold of one I am sure it will be all over for me. If I get one new it will have to be based on the LX neck and inlayed epaulets.
I am still holding out for the parabolic Bowl, LX necked Baritone 12 string on a textured top. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | I am sure his Mandocellos are just as awesome as his Mandolins.
Stuart Mandocello |
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Location: Scotland | Apart from having strings and frets there is no similarity between the guitar & the Mandocello. not only that, with the exception of the tuning intervals there is very little in common between the mandolin and the mandocello, and because of the scale length mandolin technique is a non-starter for mandocello. Mandocellos are really something of a joke that happened during the mandolin orchestra craze of the early 1900's and as such there isn't really a contemporary mandocello benchmark, though David Lindleys mandocello playing is worth hunting for. Incidentaly, with a change of string gauge mandocellos can be tuned as Irish Bouzoukis or Greek 4-course Bouzoukis and are quite common in Celtic music. |
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Location: East Tennessee | I've thought about a Mandocello but right now out of my $ range. The Ovation looks awesome
http://www.ovationguitars.com/index.cfm?fa=detail&mid=73 |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Those Stewarts look interesting but probably expensive. I just sold my Gibson K-2 mandoC(1918) and it brought $3500. It was a nice instrument but not real functional and it really drove like a truck. The Ovation is SOOOOO much easier to play and probably a little cheaper than an original (not to mention better sounding too)
Woody, you need one of these before the longnekked 12. They really are specialty instruments though, need to keep that in mind as our Mr. Templeman poinbts out. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Actually Bill the Stuarts are quite reasonable. I bought an Indian Rosewood Mandolin from him that is to kill for and it only cost $950 after shipping and the exchange rate.
He lists all his prices on the website and then you just figure the currency conversion. Bad thing it that it took almost 6 months to get it. Worth the wait but it still seemed like a looooong time. |
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Location: Las Cruces, NM | MWoody
As a mandolin player I am going to cut through the bullshit.
NO, you are not too old to learn mandolin. Don't waste your time on a mandocello, a mandolin has many, many years of existence and is not that hard to play, get one and four or five people on this site will help you play it. Mandocello's are bastard instruments that have no musical history except in one song, mandolins have appeared in every genre that exists,
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Am I too old to learn Mando?