Only click if you need gorgeous harmonies and impeccable picking

[The Polack MSgt]

[mr_lebowski]

1. I was JUST LISTENING to Aoife's entire catalog the other day!

I totally dig her!

The Lakes of Pontchartrain is a fave, but she's got lots of really good songs. In the Magic Hour is a brilliant record.

[The Polack MSgt]

7. Great minds and all that

Our musical Venn diagram is just a (not very wide) oval I think

[mr_lebowski]

8. Pretty damn close my man :)

[bullimiami]

2. what is the girl in black playing? ive not seen that before. like a giant mandolin.

or like an americanized cuatro.

[JDC]

3. I think it's just an acoustic electric.

[mr_lebowski]

5. I believe that is called a Mandocello ...

Could be wrong, but ...

[The Polack MSgt]

6. I believe it's a Mandocello - A Baritone Mandolin

The naming convention is "borrowed" Violin = Soprano, viola = Alto, Cello = Baritone, Mandolin Mandola and Mandocello follow that pattern

The body looks like a guitar more than most mandocellos do, Most look like Mandolins on steroids so I think it may be an Eastman Mandocello

[mr_lebowski]

10. You're lagging, man ;) nt

[The Polack MSgt]

11. Stopped to look up the video Mr. L

[bullimiami]

12. New one on me. Thanks.

[BluesRunTheGame]

9. Octave Mandolin

It’s the mandolin family instrument that falls between the Mandola and the Mandocello.

[The Polack MSgt]

13. Wow. Live and learn - this may be the 1st octave Mandolin I'd seen - Thanks BRTG.

Can't get more definitive than the artist herself telling you what her instrument is.




It's a great sounding instrument

[BluesRunTheGame]

16. Sierra Hull plays one too.

She has a fancier F-style version.

[The Polack MSgt]

17. I must've just mentally named 'em Mandocellos and never looked too closely

Which is a bit embarrassing, not gonna lie.

All these years and there is an instrument I didn't even know existed even though I listen to the music in which it is most commonly used...

But this is the DU MAG - the place I learn. Great video too BTW

[BluesRunTheGame]

18. For reference, here's Mike Marshall with a Mandocello.

I remember him occasionally playing one when he was in the Grisman Quintet.

[LearnedHand]

21. Okay, except maybe for the Russian bass mandolin like the ones used by the Flying Balalaika Brothers

[BluesRunTheGame]

22. That's a contrabass balalaika.

Three strings.

Mando family instruments have 4 pairs of strings.

Cool instrument, though.

[LearnedHand]

23. See?

I told you I didn’t know from mandolins. I saw this band perform once, and that contrabass balalaika is almost small-person-sized. Amazing sound.

[LearnedHand]

20. I had no idea about any of these mandolin variations

Thanks to all for the instrument education.

[Hoyt]

14. Winner. But it is close to a mandocello. I've had several octaves, cool instruments.

[JDC]

4. I'm for more of that.

[MyOwnPeace]

15. Nice mellow break - thanks!

(sure was a long extension cord out into the woods! )

[LearnedHand]

19. I most definitely did, so I did!

I love both women’s voices, and this is sublime. I saw Aoife O’Donovan with Crooked Still quite a few years ago.