The Sound of the American Mandolin

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2018 North Carolina Heritage Award recipient Tony Williamson is a visionary musician, composer, musical instrument expert, teacher and mentor. He has played stringed instruments, most famously mandolin, for six decades and has been receiving awards and honors for his music for nearly 50 of those years. Never content to rest on his laurels, today Tony continues to perform live and travel internationally and has recordings with fresh new concepts in progress.
In this documentary from 1995 Tony goes through the history of the American mandolin and plays quite a few examples of different instruments that demonstrate that history.
Check out Tony's website at www.mandolincentral.com

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  • @FattCattRedRacing
    @FattCattRedRacing2 жыл бұрын

    Hope this helps someone. the list of song's played so's far as I could tell ,I think I got them all "Darlin' Nellie Grey" Blonde @ 11:43 - 12:50 "Dola Dance " - Mandola @ 29:23 - 30:48 "The Mandolin Song"1923 @ 35:10 - 36:12 "Grandfather's Clock" Mandocello (John C. Works) @ 45:10 - 47:28 "The Road to Pedro's" - 1927 "The Sound of the American Mandolin" Last song played

  • @mandolinjournal
    @mandolinjournal3 жыл бұрын

    It puts the issue of Virzi tone producer to rest. A must see video for all Mandolin lovers.......

  • @mandolinjournal

    @mandolinjournal

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@RustyMadd I’m so happy with my A4 with the Virzi!!!

  • @Oooo-bi7bi
    @Oooo-bi7bi2 жыл бұрын

    Through growing up listening to my dads American country music. I eventually developed a love of it myself. After asking my dad why does he love country music. He said it’s Irish music that they have continued. His parents are Irish and he spent his school holidays there. It’s brought me to loving and learning both bluegrass and Irish trad mandolin. Thanks to America and the internet. 🇬🇧

  • @ronniecraft3895
    @ronniecraft38953 жыл бұрын

    WOW ,last tune was WOW !!!!

  • @michaelvanwinkle7919
    @michaelvanwinkle79193 жыл бұрын

    This video was an informative collection of musical segments discussing the history and types of mandolins in America and Europe. Thank You Mr. Williamson and McCullough for your efforts. As a beginning mandolin student, I found this helpful in better understanding the instrument I am learning to play.

  • @andorrasrevenge1683
    @andorrasrevenge1683 Жыл бұрын

    Very happy this is available to view!

  • @alexandrefalardeau5991
    @alexandrefalardeau59919 ай бұрын

    very nice to see and hear a lot of beautiful mandolins like that !

  • @kellythompson1441
    @kellythompson14414 ай бұрын

    WOW!!!

  • @Mandolin1944
    @Mandolin19443 жыл бұрын

    I still have a copy of the original 1995 VHS tape of this great project but no player anymore. According to Tony they never could get funding to make a DVD version available for sale. Pity because it is a great show.

  • @f5mando
    @f5mando3 жыл бұрын

    Thoroughly enjoyed this mandolin history trip with the venerable Mr W. Thank you for posting this.

  • @JoseGarcia-ho7co
    @JoseGarcia-ho7co3 жыл бұрын

    This was Alfredo Gil's first instrument he picked up where he discovered his love for the Guitar he then invented the Requinto which he played in a little band called Los Panchos.

  • @ised-5239
    @ised-52393 жыл бұрын

    12:35 The mandola is the tenor member of the family instruments like a tenor guitar and tenor banjo with exactly same tuning, and mandolin is the alto ones. Mandocello is the baritone voice and serves as the octave mandola. And the octave mandolin is the tenor-baritone/lower tenor ones.

  • @ised-5239

    @ised-5239

    2 жыл бұрын

    And the big mando-bass is less common instrument.

  • @mandolinjournal
    @mandolinjournal3 жыл бұрын

    This is so very informative for the lovers of American mandolins such as myself. Thanks so very much for posting this video! My sincere most regards and respects........

  • @abbacab77
    @abbacab773 жыл бұрын

    This was fascinating

  • @old-timeangler5356
    @old-timeangler53562 жыл бұрын

    Thank you, very informative.

  • @devlieg72
    @devlieg722 жыл бұрын

    I really enjoy this video and its view of the history of the mandolin in the U.S. My only criticism is that it focuses a bit too much on Gibson and Loar. There were a lot of mandolin makers in the early 1900s (Vega, Washburn, etc.) and makers of the cheap Army-Navy frying pan mandos, as well as the National Resophonic company making resophonic mandos in the 1930s. But Gibson is the big dog on the block, nd their A and F models have pretty much become what the definition of an American mando is. So I can't complain.

  • @mandojimmy
    @mandojimmy3 жыл бұрын

    For years people said the Handel inlaid tuning buttons were German but I believe they were actually made in St Louis, USA.

  • @hydemade
    @hydemade2 жыл бұрын

    great show...Thanks ...*****

  • @nutsocket
    @nutsocket3 жыл бұрын

    excellent video

  • @WC_Beer_Reviews
    @WC_Beer_Reviews3 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for posting this! I love these well explained discussions and demonstrations.

  • @gfurstnsu
    @gfurstnsu3 жыл бұрын

    This whole discussion seems to be about the Gibson Company Models. I would have liked to hear and Han had demonstrations the ones Martin Company and others. Yes Gibson made some of the most famous examples. Thanks for the presentation. Really enjoyed it.

  • @chiron14pl
    @chiron14pl6 ай бұрын

    If I wasn't watching the whole video when you played the mandocello, just on the basis of the look and sound, I would be hard pressed to tell it was a mandolin family member rather than a guitar, the sound is very similar to my ears

  • @robward4109
    @robward41092 жыл бұрын

    Amazing player

  • @Jaseph2
    @Jaseph2 Жыл бұрын

    Truly fascinating video. Thank you. I am just developing an interest in the mandolin. It’s a very beautiful sounding instrument and it’s interesting to see that a uniquely American form of mandolin music developed.

  • @datsunlambchops4624
    @datsunlambchops4624 Жыл бұрын

    Although i have different and high-quality mandolins. I still primarily play a bowlback mandolin when i am at home. It's the one i carry around the house and yard. Something about the sound that i love. However, it is terrible for playing chords with other instruments.

  • @jarchitect
    @jarchitect3 жыл бұрын

    Wow, I didn't recognize Tony...

  • @kyleinnes4963
    @kyleinnes49633 жыл бұрын

    I just fell in love with this instrument

  • @ronaldcossin4525
    @ronaldcossin45253 жыл бұрын

    I have a Bow Back mandoline it was made in Chana with Chinese writing on the inside label it needs some work on the nut warren over time tuning and restringing... needs new treats on the fingerboard too...

  • @mikewills6753

    @mikewills6753

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bowl back.. also called a Tater Bug

  • @ronaldcossin4525
    @ronaldcossin45253 жыл бұрын

    I was experimenting with rattle strings, Have you seen the G & D string break in two places close together they rattle like a snake... just the outer rap breaks... .. . on one string it sounds cool ... .. .

  • @ronaldcossin4525
    @ronaldcossin45253 жыл бұрын

    The Vibration Trap would be a good name for it... .. .or vibration delay

  • @ronaldcossin4525

    @ronaldcossin4525

    3 жыл бұрын

    it gives it a longer vibration time to me not a good thing for fast bluegrass playing... and if it had a pickup bridge for an amplifier, oh no lookout Benjo bleed over from mandolin... .. .

  • @kpf8186
    @kpf81862 жыл бұрын

    When I learn how to play The Road to Pedros, I know I'll have made it.

  • @ised-5239
    @ised-52393 жыл бұрын

    The soprano member ones which is the piccolo mandolin is the less common instrument.

  • @ronaldcossin4525
    @ronaldcossin45253 жыл бұрын

    I also have a Bean Blossom mandolin F-Sysle hmmm it has no label on the inside that I can see... .. . looked it up it was $999.99... wow I paid $99.99 for it at a pawn shop ... someone needed glass's ... .. .

  • @robertshorthill4153
    @robertshorthill41533 жыл бұрын

    You are telling me things I did not know. This is all pre-- Loar stuff, who designed our modern day Mandolins As an aside, Tony, I think your Tennessee Tuxedo is the right garb for this program. Cheers, my friend. Bob in Montana

  • @brucebaldy
    @brucebaldy Жыл бұрын

    I need to know if you use the standard classical tuning or the mandola tuning on the mandolin and what gauge strings do you like or preferr?

  • @ronaldcossin4525
    @ronaldcossin45253 жыл бұрын

    that would sound good if it had a pickup bridge for solo

  • @chrisbrowne8645
    @chrisbrowne86452 жыл бұрын

    34:29 what’s the tune?

  • @ronaldcossin4525
    @ronaldcossin45253 жыл бұрын

    I don't like the fingerboard how it goes over the flat top oval soundhole to me reduce the sounds coming out of it... .. .

  • @ronaldcossin4525

    @ronaldcossin4525

    3 жыл бұрын

    I also have a Hybrid Washburn looked at it for months hang there in the store, it has an F-style headstock an A-style body, and a Flat Top oval soundhole, and it sounds good too, it's blue in color the ladies like it. lol ... ..

  • @terryfarrell1757

    @terryfarrell1757

    2 жыл бұрын

    I agree with you I build violin and cello and it seems to me that the fingerboard extension would hinder a lot of vibration

  • @ised-5239
    @ised-52393 жыл бұрын

    The 10 string thing should be called mandoliola (mandolin and mandola hybrid).

  • @jessegreer8242

    @jessegreer8242

    3 жыл бұрын

    Should be called a mandolorian

  • @jrmwigga5555
    @jrmwigga55553 жыл бұрын

    What is the name of the song at about 33:40

  • @PFCBeetleBailey

    @PFCBeetleBailey

    3 жыл бұрын

    I came to the comments looking for the same answer. Sounds to me like “When I’m Dead My Dearest”. Look up the Krüger Brothers’ version and I think you’ll hear a match.

  • @elba9066
    @elba90663 жыл бұрын

    yes, does anyone know what the last tune was?

  • @FattCattRedRacing

    @FattCattRedRacing

    2 жыл бұрын

    Get up John 1936

  • @FattCattRedRacing

    @FattCattRedRacing

    2 жыл бұрын

    The road to Pedro's -1927

  • @marklozano8388
    @marklozano83882 жыл бұрын

    the difference between the snakeheads and f models was , they were voiced . like a violin was.

  • @geoffwhitemusic
    @geoffwhitemusic3 жыл бұрын

    Please pronounce Appalachian correctly.

  • @ponchlove2393
    @ponchlove23932 жыл бұрын

    Contact info???,thankyou.

  • @ponchlove2393

    @ponchlove2393

    2 жыл бұрын

    John e. Hutton made the finest sounding mandolins to be had.!!!!!!!!!

  • @ponchlove2393

    @ponchlove2393

    2 жыл бұрын

    John e. Hutto

  • @ponchlove2393

    @ponchlove2393

    2 жыл бұрын

    Not. Hutton,. H u t t o .

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