I'm a farmer with a mandolin and a high tenor voice.
Quotes about mandolin (15 Quotes)
Gill also related how, in a fit of anger against Gibson, Monroe took a pocketknife and gouged out the company's nameplate. That's the beauty of this mandolin, ... It's the Holy Grail. Most musicians think it's in the New Testament. And it ought to be.
Peter was sick of being a pop star, the guitar god, and so he decided to teach himself other instruments. Among the instruments that he picked up was the mandolin.
We mourned the loss and the uncertain future of the most well-known mandolin in the world.
At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.
That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
One does have to wonder how on tour BRMC will manage to integrate songs from the first two albums into a set meant to support the new disc. The new songs really blend well with the old ones, ... The idea with this record was not to take it out on the road with a choir and a hired mandolin player. We wanted to do it all ourselves the way weve always done it. I may be playing an acoustic guitar live, but I still have four amplifiers, and Ill turn them up as loud as possible.
The sound of the mandolin is a very curious sound because it's cheerful and melancholy at the same time, and I think it comes from that shadow string, the double strings.
We never even talked about that we were going to be a band. David was the first person I went to see and that was the end of my trip. I got to play with everyone right there in his living room. The immersion was so deep, so fast. Suddenly, I was dogpaddling on mandolin.
Last year was kind of a down year for us. We weren't out there for 200 dates last year, like usual. Don Herron, the band's fiddle, pedal-steel and mandolin master was off playing with Bob Dylan, Shaw was spending most of his time in Arizona, and I was in Nashville writing songs and doing my own thing.
The zoo offers the tactile experience of sliding a bow across the strings of a fiddle, plucking a stand-up bass, pounding a drum, strumming a guitar or blowing into a trumpet. I think of it as a mini museum, ... We have some basic knowledge of all the instruments. My main instrument is the mountain dulcimer, but we'll have a banjo, fiddle, mandolin, guitars, dulcimers and a washtub and stand-up bass. There will be a wind instrument area and lots of percussion instruments, including a limberjack. That's a board with a dancing man you bounce in time to the music.
He didn't have the aura of a rock icon. He was just a regular guy. To have the bass player walk in the room with a mandolin over his shoulder is kind of a bizarre experience.
It was like trying to eat one potato chip. I've picked up the mandolin and feel like I can go to any session and hold my own. I also play the tin whistle, but not very well. I want to play everything.
I stepped back from being out front to playing bass. So we started switching: I'd play bass on one song, we'd switch on the next song; I'd play piano... we'd play mandolin.
This is without question the most famous mandolin ever played. The historical importance and emotional value of this instrument cannot be overstated.