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Bassora - Posted - 12/27/2010:  16:49:33

Is there anyone else who plays or is trying to play the mandocello?
If you do, what kind of music do you play?

And, yes, I play mandocello.

Bassora

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Gibson mandocello next to Gibson mandolin
   

mandogryl - Posted - 12/28/2010:  02:17:11

Nice 'cello!!
No, I do not own one, but I like retuning my guitar's lower four strings to fifths, and playing Bach Cello Suites.
Which is not entirely the same, but it gives me that deep tone.

Robes - Posted - 12/28/2010:  12:12:16

No,... but I have a Cello banjo....

H20 - Posted - 12/28/2010:  15:05:56

wow! that thing in a monster! I would not know where to start. I do not play but am curious to learn more about it -tuning, type of music that would suite it, etc...

...speaking of mandocello, I just saw this one!

mandolincafe.com/forum/showthr...Abernathy

triggsmandolins.com/mandocellos

Edited by - H20 on 12/28/2010 16:57:39

Bassora - Posted - 12/29/2010:  16:47:44

My mandocello is tuned the same as a cello.

I plan to post a couple of audio recordings I made today so people can hear the sound of it behind other instruments.

Bassora
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Bassora - Posted - 01/03/2011:  19:44:45

Here's a fascinating picture of a mandocello from the 1930s. It is of a string band in which the mandolin player also played the mandocello (behind gentleman sitting on keg).
The name of the group is Jimmie Wilson's Catfish String Band out of Sapulpa, Oklahoma, and they had a show on KVOO.



Jimmie Wilson's Catfish String Band
   

Bassora - Posted - 01/03/2011:  19:51:39

And here's the promised sound files:

Wild Hog in the Woods (I make the mando cello sound like a wild hog)
hangoutstorage.com/jukebox.asp...ID%3D7883

Ben McCulloch (a Civil War song and I try to make the mandocello sound like an army on the march)
hangoutstorage.com/jukebox.asp...ID%3D7892

Bassora
looking for the drama in the mandocello on the Muddy Mo
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Red Henry - Posted - 01/04/2011:  17:36:43

That's a very nice pair of instruments you have there. I own two mandocellos-- one homemade from a flea-market Kay guitar, and the other one an incredible Randy Wood-- and I use them for bluegrass, classical, and anything else that comes to mind. Recorded "High on a Mountain" and "Dives and Lazarus" with the 'cello on my latest CD, and am working my way (yes, slowly) through the Bach cello suites, a lifetime quest.

Red

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