Lately music has entered back into the fore front of my actions and thoughts. Playing the Guitar for many years there where only moments of progression followed by long periods of stagnation. Playing the mandolin, tuned to G, D, A, E brought the idea of tuning in 5th’s. It was fun to try to learn but those darn strings and frets were to close to each other. Then came the best purchase I have ever made! The Base Mandolin, with its well spaced strings and wide frets, its smooth and pliable strings and C, G, D, A, tuning changed everything. The best description I have come up with is that it is a Cello with frets that you hold like a guitar.
In August, I went to the Catskill Mountain’s in New York for my cousins wedding. One of his friends brought a Tenor Banjo with him and after discovering that its tuning was the same as the Cello, I gave that group of almost total strangers huddled around a camp fire, in a break of a drizzling ran, my best rendition of “Take the Skinheads Bowling” by Camper Van Beethoven that I had ever given, all on an instrument that I had never played.
Sorry did you think I meant Fifth of Whiskey,
Kris
In August, I went to the Catskill Mountain’s in New York for my cousins wedding. One of his friends brought a Tenor Banjo with him and after discovering that its tuning was the same as the Cello, I gave that group of almost total strangers huddled around a camp fire, in a break of a drizzling ran, my best rendition of “Take the Skinheads Bowling” by Camper Van Beethoven that I had ever given, all on an instrument that I had never played.
Sorry did you think I meant Fifth of Whiskey,
Kris
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