Guitalele and Mandolin

Anz · Post by **Anz** » 28 Dec 2007 08:43

If you don't know what they are, guitalele is a mini guitar with standart tuning and mandolin has four double or triple strings, same tuning as violin.

I bought a guitalele about 1Â½ years ago. It's fun to play with.

I got a mandolin from my parents as a christmas present

I've tried to play it before so I got a hang of it pretty fast.

Here I play the same song with both of these instruments:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyR3HAQEA9Q (sorry about the mistakes, couldn't bother for another shot)

Anybody ever played them?

Bringerofpie · Post by **Bringerofpie** » 28 Dec 2007 09:26

I have. I play the mandolin sometimes with my dad on guitar and my friend's dad has a guitalele (I always thought it was just a travel sized guitar). His guitalele is Taylor, so it's got a really high quality sound.

CautionFragile · Post by **CautionFragile** » 29 Dec 2007 12:51

I just got an actual Ukelele. I love it. Sooooooo fun, but I wish I had a Timple. It's a 5 stringed Uke from the Canary Islands.

Anz · Post by **Anz** » 15 Jan 2008 10:13

Do you guys find it easy to start playing ukulele when you already play guitar?

I've been now playing mandolin for three weeks, here's another song I recorded today:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hM8s9w2E6g

CautionFragile · Post by **CautionFragile** » 15 Jan 2008 14:11

I sure do.

I just picked up a nice new tenor ukulele last night. It's pretty nice. I'll see if I can get a videa of the song I wrote on here in the next few days.

Muffinman · Post by **Muffinman** » 16 Jan 2008 17:35

Ben Roscoe also plays Mandolin. He was playing at Worlds.
I think he also plays fiddle?