The music composed by Astor Piazzolla is famous around the world, especially the three pieces from Histoire du tango are played very often. And very often those pieces are played with mandolin and guitar. In Taiwan YaHui Chen und YunChang Dong have played tose three pieces in a concert with chines 4-stringed mandolin liuqin and […]
Astor Piazzolla – Histoire du Tango – Liuqin (Chinese Mandolin) and Guitar Read More »
Mike Marshall Mike Marshall is one of the best mandolin players in the USA today. For more than 30 years Mike has played everything possible on the mandolin, and also on the mandocello – bluegrass, dawg, jazz, classical and brazilian choro. In the early 80s he played together with the David Grisman Quintet. For the
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Mike Marshall and Chris Thile played one piece during their woodsongs duo concert named Sedi Donka. This is a Bulgarian folk dance tune in 25/8, divided in 7 + 7 + 11 eights. Before they played the tune Chris and Mike demonstrated this rhythm to the public. The rhythm goes like this: ti – ke
Sedi Donka ❀ 7 + 7 + 11 = 25 ❀ A Great Folk Dance from Bulgaria Read More »
I have dicovered this video already some time ago, and I heard it again today. La Sexta Basica is a group composed of typical Venezuelan plucked instruments and a singer. They play a very interesting mix of traditional Venezuelan music with a modern sound. These are very good examples of how to use plucked instruments
LA SEXTA BASICA – Music from Venezuela with Mandolin Read More »
There are several instruments in Venezuela and Columbia named bandola, the bandola llanera is the most popular of those. The bandola llanera has 4 strings – usually made from nylon like the strings of a classical guitar. It looks like a pearshaped guitar, at the first sight it looks quite strange and unusual. The instrument
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Joe Brent and Brian Dean have developed a new mandolin, the Grand Concert. The first videos played with this mandolin are available at youtube, and I think that there will be some discussion about this new type of a mandolin. Brian Dean has made a video with pictures from the construction of this mandolin, with
The new Grand Concert Mandolin by Labraid – Built for Mandolinist Joe Brent Read More »
This blog is intended as an English version of my blog gezupftes.de. I am collecting usefull information about the mandolin, the guitar and other plucked instruments from all over the world with interesting youtube videos. I have started the German blog gezupftes.de some time ago as an addon for my homepage mandoisland.de. MandoIsland has grown
