{"id":3591,"date":"2011-09-30T17:19:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T15:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=3591"},"modified":"2018-03-08T13:57:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T11:57:20","slug":"grandpa-banana-and-his-five-string-tenor-guitar-by-corrado-giacomel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mandoisland.com\/?p=3591","title":{"rendered":"Grandpa Banana and his Five String Tenor-Guitar by Corrado Giacomel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Recently I have downloaded the song Old Woman<\/strong> by Grandpa Banana<\/strong> from the Acoustic Oasis<\/strong> website – one of the free daily Acoustic Oasis downloads. When I listened to this song I liked it immediately and I had to search for information about this artist.<\/p>\n

You can find some information about Grandpa Banana on the Acoustic Oasis website, but more interesting is the interview he gave to Mandolin Cafe last year.<\/p>\n

Mandolin Cafe interview – 10 Questions for Lowell Levinger<\/strong>: http:\/\/www.mandolincafe.com\/news\/publish\/mandolins_001179.shtml<\/a><\/p>\n

I think it was the sound of Grandpa Bananas five string tenor-guitar made by Corrado Giacomel that impressed me immediately. Grandpa Banana played the first Giacomel mandolin when David Grisman had just brought it with him from a trip to Italy. Grandpa Banana was impressed by the sound of this instrument and bought his own mandolin and a mandola that he has converted to a five string tenor-guitar.\u00a0 In the Mandolin Cafe interview you can read about his favorite instruments:<\/p>\n

I guess my favorite one right now has to be my Giacomel J-5. Dawg introduced me to the Giacomel when he returned from Italy with his first one and I was blown away. After playing it as his house (and then hearing him play it in concert and on record!) I couldn’t resist. Now it’s the mandolin that sounds best when I play it. I also have a Giacomel octave mandolin that I have converted to a 5 string tenor guitar (all it took was replacing the bridge top and the nut) – it is also one of my very favorite instruments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the following video you can see and hear Grandpa Banana with his five string tenor-guitar by Giacomel:<\/p>\n

Grandpa Banana 1952 Vincent Black Lightning<\/h4>\n