A few years ago now a friend of mine, who is a big fan of the guitarist John Mclaughlin, bought an album of McLaughlin's group Shakti on which the very same mandolin player U. Shrinivas gives it socks. I was amazed when i first listened to it, i just could not figure out how he was getting the sounds out of the mandolin that he was, even granting that it was electric mandolin i still could not fathom it.
It was only a few years later that i discovered that Srinivas plays an electric six (single) string (s) 'mandolin'... i think the Texas swing mandolin player Tiny Moore plays a similar kind of instrument? I was kind of a bit dissapointed to find it was not a mandolin proper being played, though apparently Shrinivas did start out playing one as a kid. The thing that i have never quite got to grips with is why an instrument with six single courses is still called a mandolin... just one of those things i suppose On Nov 6, 9:48 pm, Robin Gravina <robin.grav...@gmail.com> wrote: > I was at a sort of sustainable, ecological trade fair today (hunting > down some good organic veggies), and talked to a tabla player who was > selling sitars and other instruments, including an Indian mandolin. > I mentioned that I had heard of the classical indian mando player > through Deep (where are you Deep?), and it turns out they had played > together on many occasions... Guy has a shop in Barcelona. > Amazing to watch a good tabla player up close, bought my daughter an > indian mouth harp... Life is tolerable! > Best > Robin > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Taterbugmando" group. To post to this group, send email to taterbugma...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to taterbugmando+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/taterbugmando?hl=en.
