Kahn wrote:I dont think Boyd has enough speed to succesfully integrate a mandolin. Look at Michael Kang. He is unbelievable. Boyd just doesn't have the chops.
And you know he doesn't have the chops how?
Edit: Bassman made a nice funny, sorry to bury it.
i like tictacs wrote:I don't think speed is necessary to integrate any instrument.
I would agree on any other instrument. But I think its on the same level as the banjo. I think you do need a certain amount of speed and skill to make a mandolin work in a rock band, or any band for that matter. Take bluegrass for example.
I agree if you are talking about specific genres of music, but I feel that any instrument can be integrated into at least some genre without having to be able to play sixteenth notes at 120bpm. A nice slow banjo solo can be a beautiful thing in a piano-ballad esque song, same goes for mando.
when i said "different octaves" about his mandolin, i meant that the mandolin and the violin are in different octaves. is that correct or not?
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i am sam2 wrote:when i said "different octaves" about his mandolin, i meant that the mandolin and the violin are in different octaves. is that correct or not?
i am sam2 wrote:when i said "different octaves" about his mandolin, i meant that the mandolin and the violin are in different octaves. is that correct or not?
i am sam2 wrote:when i said "different octaves" about his mandolin, i meant that the mandolin and the violin are in different octaves. is that correct or not?
Most mandolins have 8 tuners on them, the one that Boyd played on the DVD only has 4 tuners and it looks like a Fender (the headstock gives it away). However that being said it could be a custom mandolin that he built or had made by a luthier or Fender made it for him. I am interested as to know who made the darn thing.
i am sam2 wrote:when i said "different octaves" about his mandolin, i meant that the mandolin and the violin are in different octaves. is that correct or not?
Most mandolins have 8 tuners on them, the one that Boyd played on the DVD only has 4 tuners and it looks like a Fender (the headstock gives it away). However that being said it could be a custom mandolin that he built or had made by a luthier or Fender made it for him. I am interested as to know who made the darn thing.
like i said before, alot of companys make electric mandolins with only 4 strings. gibson has one called the mandobird.
but you where saying fender. the fender ones are.
the one boyd uses could be a zeta, since they make his violins. but i dont like to consider these mandolins, just because it doesnt seem like it should be hollowbody, and the 4 strings makes it sound more like ur just plucking a voilin. the mandolin has 8 strings for a reason, and they shouldnt reduce it to 4.
i am sam2 wrote:when i said "different octaves" about his mandolin, i meant that the mandolin and the violin are in different octaves. is that correct or not?
Most mandolins have 8 tuners on them, the one that Boyd played on the DVD only has 4 tuners and it looks like a Fender (the headstock gives it away). However that being said it could be a custom mandolin that he built or had made by a luthier or Fender made it for him. I am interested as to know who made the darn thing.
like i said before, alot of companys make electric mandolins with only 4 strings. gibson has one called the mandobird.
but you where saying fender. the fender ones are.
the one boyd uses could be a zeta, since they make his violins. but i dont like to consider these mandolins, just because it doesnt seem like it should be hollowbody, and the 4 strings makes it sound more like ur just plucking a voilin. the mandolin has 8 strings for a reason, and they shouldnt reduce it to 4.
Just popped the DVD in and I paused it at a close up of Boyd and you can clearly see the Fender logo and its that one right there that you posted. That mando isnt on Fender's website, at least I couldnt find it.
bassman462 wrote:alot of companys dont post all there instruments, i find tons of stuff on ebay, there's an epiphone copy cat strat.
I see those Strat copies by Epi all the time around here. A couple of stores sell them, they are alright, I like the necks on the older Epi Strat copies (they were originally called the Coronets I believe) and the V neck on them makes them great to play.
am i completely wrong here.? or is the mandolin like thing with the "fender strat. head" not boyds electric zeta violin? just turned on the side and played with his thumb? http://www.zetamusic.com/products/display.asp?id=172
Tommyph wrote:am i completely wrong here.? or is the mandolin like thing with the "fender strat. head" not boyds electric zeta violin? just turned on the side and played with his thumb? http://www.zetamusic.com/products/display.asp?id=172
some songs he plays his violin by plucking with his thumb, and now he started to play a 4 string eletric mando. even though it's practically the same thing since it isn't 8 strings.
yes i know he plugs the strings on the violin, i play it myself (or at least i try) but he uses it in a strumming way too right? in songs like two step and where are you going...
Tommyph wrote:yes i know he plugs the strings on the violin, i play it myself (or at least i try) but he uses it in a strumming way too right? in songs like two step and where are you going...
yes he does. but on songs like break free he uses a mando.
Tommyph wrote:am i completely wrong here.? or is the mandolin like thing with the "fender strat. head" not boyds electric zeta violin? just turned on the side and played with his thumb? http://www.zetamusic.com/products/display.asp?id=172
No, because his violins do not have the sunburst paint on them, last I checked they were solid black or a very dark blue.
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