Funky and patriotic. I'm from an inch north of the 15th fret.
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:28 am
by hotrodperlmutter
patriotic?
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:55 am
by Nick
Kind of cool that it's yet another funky shape for an electric mandolin but it sounds just like capo'd electric guitar to me....possibly because they got a guy who admittedly isn't a mandolin player to demo it. If I buy a mandolin it's so I can get my Peter Buck on:
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Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:19 am
by endsjustifymeans
hotrodperlmutter wrote:patriotic?
Shaped vaguely like the US of A
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:25 am
by gaybear
endsjustifymeans wrote:
hotrodperlmutter wrote:patriotic?
Shaped vaguely like the US of A
yeah, the maine/great lakes area look like shit. otherwise it could be a cool lookin' doodad.
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:27 am
by hotrodperlmutter
endsjustifymeans wrote:
hotrodperlmutter wrote:patriotic?
Shaped vaguely like the US of A
yeah, no.
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:00 am
by ultratwin
Nick has a good point about tone conveyed regardless of construction, although I feel it retains the sound of extended-scale mandolin-family instrument to my ears. Judging from my experience with a DeArmond on an old Gibson A model, an underwound single coil in the neck would likely give a more open, woody sound a la mandolin, says me.
I certainly don't need one, but if I did I'd be tempted to go the Cittern/Bouzouki route and attempt to add an octave string on the lower two courses, and use purely for rhythm.
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 5:43 am
by Rox
hotrodperlmutter wrote:
endsjustifymeans wrote:
hotrodperlmutter wrote:patriotic?
Shaped vaguely like the US of A
yeah, no.
Hence the name : MAP . I know , my humor sucks.
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 2:52 am
by Nick
I've always wanted to play one of these:
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 6:41 pm
by jcyphe
I like the sound of this Hammertone copy that Daniel Lanois is using in this clip with Emmylou Harris.
I know , my humor sucks.