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Towards the beginning of OGWT from the other night, which we've just watched, Wildwood Kin swapped to an 8 string instrument for their 2nd song.

Anybody know what it was?

Slarti

Slarti wrote:Towards the beginning of OGWT from the other night, which we've just watched, Wildwood Kin swapped to an 8 string instrument for their 2nd song.

Anybody know what it was?

Slarti

Here’s their set. The instrument is at far left, before it is in use later on.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eBUi05nU0Ik

Maybe a mandolin.

Edit - Seems to be a bouzouki http://killing-moon.com/2016/08/19/inte ... dwood-kin/

They apparently endorse Ashbury Guitars, (who make all manner of stringed instruments), so is it in this list of their products?
http://www.ashburyguitars.com/cat/productlist.php

PinkDalek wrote:

Slarti wrote:Towards the beginning of OGWT from the other night, which we've just watched, Wildwood Kin swapped to an 8 string instrument for their 2nd song.

Anybody know what it was?

Slarti

Here’s their set. The instrument is at far left, before it is in use later on.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eBUi05nU0Ik

Maybe a mandolin.

Edit - Seems to be a bouzouki http://killing-moon.com/2016/08/19/inte ... dwood-kin/

http://www.ashburyguitars.com/cat/sales/330/Bouzoukis/ ?

Yes, an Irish Bouzouki -- or possibly an Octave Mandola, but the former is just a slightly longer necked version of the latter (and usually tuned differently) but there isn't a rigorously standard length for either anyway....

(A mandola is to a mandolin as a viola is to a violin, and "octave" versions of any of those means designed to be tuned an octave below.)

Edit: just saw a close up view later in the video ... it's an Irish Bouzouki (unless you don't like that name [and I know some musicians who don't], in which case it's a stretched Octave Mandola )

Thanks all, now I can tell Mrs S what it probably was

Not that it will make either of us much wiser.


Anyway, it was an enjoyable set.

Cheers
Slarti

They are very good - I saw them with Seth Lakeman last (?) year. Or possibly 2016...

I agree that from the length of it I would call that an irish bouzouki.

The lower courses are tuned in octaves (easy to see at 5:47) which is more likely on a zouk than an octave-mandolin; but as previously mentioned there aren't any strict rules in tuning and fewer rules in the naming of these things (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octave_mandolin)

If a maker makes both the zouk will be longer, but between makers I've seen shorter zouks and longer octave-mandolins.

I got a severe scolding when I referred to mine as an octave-mandola once when I was having a bit of work done to it in a shop her in Oz, so I don't say it anymore. It's apparently named as it's an octave below a mandolin - an octave below a mandola would be a mando-cello.

Anyway they are among the most fun you can have with strings
- and I'm seeing Andy Irvine in a couple of weeks which should be a refresher on how they can get used by someone who knows what they are doing.

Have fun
-sd