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Originally Posted by JA
Mandolin eh .... ????
My thoughts went immediately to Nino Rota's Parla Piu Piano from The Godfather ....
Do you do it?
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JA
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About 25 years I visited a string of Sam Ash music stores in New York, hoping to buy a Vintage American made Fender or Gibson guitar, but instead bought a mandolin with a pick-up. (worth $940 (US) which was about $1350 (AU) at the time, and over $2,700 if I bought it in Australia - so a pretty good deal).
The reason I bought it was that I found out that standard Mandolin tuning is the reverse of a BASS guitar or the reverse of four strings on a standard guitar. Much easier to learn how to play because you can flip chord structures and melodies etc already known on a normal guitar and play them on a Mandolin - plus when recording music the mandolin can lifts songs, by providing those higher clean notes. Great instrument. (.....and could be carried on as hand luggage
- one of the first things I tried to play on the Mandolin was the Battle of Evermore)