Tim Allan (Mandola)- LARA'S THEME - sounds like 4 mandolas!
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@timallanstrings dude that looks a bit like a madocello
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Awesome! It makes me want to watch the movie again!
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whos the asshat who disliked this
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How did you string a mandola tuning onto an octave mandolin? What strings did you use?
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Wow! Amazing.
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What mornoic twaddle could dislike this? This is absolutely AMAZING!!!!
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Wow! You made my day!!!
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That is a beautiful Instrument. wonderful playing.
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@timallanstrings My question is, did you have to get new strings, and if so, which ones? Because I'd love to do this with my Octave Mandolin, but I don't know how.
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One Balalaika, two Balalaika, three Balalaika four. This is so wonderful I want to hear
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I'm totally impressed with your playing. The first thing I thought when I saw this performance was wow, ... where does this guy live?.... I want to take a lesson. (Unfortunately, I'm across the continent in San Francisco)
I play a standard (American style) mandola (CGDA) but I've never thought of tuning some of the strings an octave higher (you're referring to the D and A strings, right?) What kind of strings would I buy for a standard mandola to accomplish that?
Thanks for inspiring me.
mandolaguy 3 years ago
Hi, Glad you like this tuning. On a regular mandola, maybe a first string could be put on the 3rd pair, and a little heavier one on the 4th pair, eg. .10 and .12 gauge.
Have fun.
Tim
timallanstrings 3 years ago
Remarkable playing, just excellent really.
I'm wondering why you call it a mandola though -- clearly you are playing an octave manodolin right? (tuned GDAE a full octave below the manodlin?).
Generally I consider the the mandola tuning as the same as the viola -- a 5th below the mandolin.
Maybe you are using a different tuning? Anwway it sounds very nice. What kind of instrument do you have? Whatever it is it is a beauty and is it sounds great.
Mandolin1944 3 years ago
Hi, Thanks. I'm glad you like the sound.
This is a "Weber" Octave Mandolin tuned higher- up to C,G,D,A. like a mandola - so I have called it a mandola to indicate the tuning. I also put an octave higher string in the 4th pair as well as one octave higher string in the 3rd pair- to add a greater fullness (6 different notes at once). I play tenor banjo, which has the CGDA tuning, and the fingerboard of the banjo is almost exactly the same as my Octave Mandolin.
All the best,
Tim Allan
timallanstrings 3 years ago