Mandolin: An Introduction

[@taniamorse85]

This video brought me back to my childhood. At family gatherings, my grandfather and my uncles would often play bluegrass music, and while I enjoyed all of it, the mandolin was my favorite of the instruments they played. It's been over 20 years since I was last able to hear them play. As you played "I'll Fly Away," I had a smile on my face, as well as a tear in my eye, as memories of them flooded my mind.

[@FilipHolm]

What a lovely thing! Thanks for sharing!

[@GNeves302]

A flatback, somewhat pear-shaped (with a round hole) mandolin is also to be found in brazilian music, where it is usually used as a melodic instrument in Choro (an instrumental genre that developed in the turn of the century). In fact an interesting recent development of the mandolin in Brazil is the rise of a 10-string version (with an extra C-string) popularized by Hamilton de Holanda with his broadening of the "scope" of use of the mandolin to include some more rhythmic elements, making use of more chords.

[@FilipHolm]

Awesome, I didn't know that! Thanks for sharing!

[@GNeves302]

@@FilipHolm If you're ever interested in listening to some brazilian mandolin pieces, you should check out the work of Jacob do Bandolim, usually considered the greatest brazilian mandolin player and one of the most important figures in Choro in general.

[@mustardtoast8328]

yes it was brought to brazil by jacob do bandolim from Portugal and its based on the Portuguese flatback traditional bandolim

[@jassimarsingh6505]

Hi everybody, hope you are doing good today.

[@FilipHolm]

I'm doing fine! Hoping the same for you!

[@hamiltonsarain9608]

I play the Irish bouzouki in a few different tunings. It's a long-neck lute that looks like a cross between a Greek bouzouki and a flat-back mandolin. It's very versatile. I can play Latin rhythms on it or play in a more "Eastern" manner. I made a recording years ago in which I emulate a Kurdish tanbour technique, called 'shor' as I recall, which is somewhat akin to the 'rasgueado' of Flamenco guitar.

[@FilipHolm]

Awesome! I love the Bouzouki!

[@tanmayshekhawat]

This is the most captivating video about Mandolin introduction I have seen by far!!

[@ggdaddy6676]

Nice job on I'll Fly Away! Amazing how different the feeling is between Bluegrass and a song like Alziti Bbella.

[@javrri7212]

Thank you! Everything i needed and wanted to know about mandolins, great introduction.

[@markfilippone3845]

Bravo Maestro! Grazie Mille! !

[@mandolinic]

I've been playing the mandolin for over 40 years. One day I hope to get good at it!

[@andrasvargas]

Nice presentation. Thank you!

[@KitKrash]

My favorite instrument!

[@charlesrat3703]

Thanks for giving a deeper context to Bill Monroe, one of my Dad's favorites

[@FilipHolm]

A great player!

[@rajeshbhattacharjee9094]

Excellent content!! Greetings from India. 2 of our evergreen father-son due composers SD Burman and RD Burman used Mandolin extremely well in many Bolywood immortal numbers.

[@YYShen]

Filip Thanks a million for education on the mandolin. Giovanni, Hongkong

[@hoanglinhqm7023]

This deserves more likes!

[@PartiallyT]

Good job keep going, Allah bless you

[@angularsquare8757]

Thanks sir. Fascinating stuff.

[@valterrafaelmateus5743]

The flatback is also common in Portugal, and for what i have saw it was inicialy called the Portuguese Mandolin, and it became a big part of Portuguese culture, expecialy in College. The mandolin is obviously overshadow'd by the iconic Portuguese Guitar in tradicional music, but in College, Mandolin is a very Common instrument in Tunas. In those you can see the mandolim play more melancolic songs with slow pace and very impactfull notes, but also um more "happy" songs both using chords or single strigs.

[@andorrasrevenge1683]

For a few videos now i have thought this fellow looks familiar, glad to see you enjoy music and talking religion!

[@legocitykilldozer]

Great videos man I am in love with both your music and religion channel. I would love it if you made a video on the saz/bağlama/tampouras or bouzouki and such related instruments as I see that you have one and their history probably dates back to ancient greece and mesopotamia Lots of love from Greece

[@FilipHolm]

A video on the Saz is on the way!

[@chiron14pl]

Nice version of this song. Fingerpicking mandolin gives a very different sound and feel for the instrument. I think I'll get my fingerpicks out and give it a try

[@tristanstephens3322]

This was beautiful thank you, love the Beethoven

[@miguelgeneroso2484]

Great video!

[@johndeer4250]

ok so i need an F stile to have them all on it! Btw probably the only video with all the answers to the questions i had awesome history and awesome music !flawless!

[@looopinglouis6037]

Thank you. Informative video with good editing quality aswell :)

[@FilipHolm]

Thank you!

[@joeabraham9580]

I'm now in love with the mandolin I want to buy all the different models lol

[@roberttarquinio1288]

Awesome

[@naturesoulstudio]

Bravo! 😊

[@Rosebud2503]

Hi there. Thank you so much for this video. Love how you play the instruments. I just purchased two vintage Neapolitan Mandolins. I am a beginner and love the bowl back mandolin very much. I am into Italian folk music. May I ask you what strings you'd recommend for a bowl back Mandolin? I'd really appreciate it. Thank you very much.

[@FilipHolm]

I've been using the Dogal Calace strings, which have been serving me well!

[@Rosebud2503]

@@FilipHolm thank you. I am having my first lesson tonight.

[@adrianabonitaaziz]

Wow ! That is beautiful! 😍

[@oronggggg]

Like the video! What brand you recommend for Neapolitan?

[@captebbtide]

The song "Maggie" from Rod Stewart, has a mandolin part at the end.

[@johneballgame]

awesome history! how many instruments can you play proficiently?

[@FilipHolm]

Define proficiently 🙂

[@c.a.t.732]

A lovely example of mandolin music is the introductory instrumental section of the song "Nine Houses" by the 70s duo Seals and Crofts. I suspect a lot of impressionable young folks back then were inspired to take up the mandolin because of the playing of Dash Crofts, and the interplay between he and guitarist James Seals, which had a lot of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern flavors. I know I was, and I still play the mandolin and the octave mandolin as the old geezer I am today.

[@maxwellfan55]

Hi. What model is the Kentucky you have? Thanks.

[@jenna2431]

Instruments often evolved depending on where they would be played. Outdoor venues required louder instruments. But "chambers" inside of homes demanded more temperate instruments. The aristocrat practice of installing orchestras at large summer villas now required instruments to blend more. Musicians who wandered and played at the pubs or coffeehouses needed highly portable smaller instruments (you also wanted it to be flat-backed to lay it on the table when someone bought you a drink!), but larger instruments signified wealth and status of being able to afford and house such a thing. It's all quite fascinating.

[@davestambaugh7282]

Less than twenty years before Orval Gibson made the mandolin so much harder to play the scale length was thirteen inches and they used gut strings. At that time the string tension was between ten and fifteen pounds average per string. When steel strings were invented the tension went from ten to fifteen pounds to fifteen to twenty pounds. Gibson increased the scale length to thirteen and seven eights making the average tension went up to between twenty and twenty five pounds. No one who played them at the time wanted to keep playing their thirteen inch scale models so Gibson contracted music teachers to sell them. My latest build has a multi scale fret board. The average tension with steel strings on mine is between ten and fifteen, no actually between eleven and twelve pounds. Now I only have to sand my chops every six months instead of every week.

[@rio__enzo5181]

The Mondolin is of Algerian origin and was invented in Algeria 🇩🇿

[@SPscorevideos]

Talking about mandora, folk instruments and classical music, I'd like to remind the existence of two (!) Concertos for Mandora, Jew's Harp and String Orchestra, written by Johann Georg Albrechtsberger, one of Beethoven's teachers. Here is the one in F major, but also the E major one is on YT: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nqLKhGWMp7BoqLM

[@johan96149]

Thousands of Irish was forcibly moved to America in the 1600's. The Irish Mandolin is very similar to the American one. Is that not the origin of the American Mandolin, rather than the Bowlback Italian Mandolin? Is there an Irish influence on early American music?

[@lunglung4806]

I'm from a khasi community. We people here loves mandolin. But the the way we play here it's a bit different from all .

[@mohammadazmirli1051]

❤️

[@aminrodriguez4707]

In Led zeppelin, lots of mandoline by John Paul Jones

[@johnwallace2319]

dude, what was your job?

[@AuntyProton]

How about the mountain dulcimer? Not the hammered dulcimer, the one you lay across your lap and play flat.

[@FilipHolm]

I think it's a really cool instrument, but I don't know much about it!

[@JK-ve9ho]

Who built your bowlback mandolin?

[@FilipHolm]

It is a Calace mandolin, made in Naples.

[@el_raqa]

🎶🎶🍻🍻

[@davestambaugh7282]

Most of these so called information channels say that the mandolin is a lute type instrument. Nothing could be farther than the truth. The mandolin is a viol type instrument. The mechanics are totally different between them. Lute type instruments never have tail pieces where as viol type instruments always have tail pieces. The mandolin, domra and balylika all decended from the cubza.

[@RolllingCheap]

The Arabic oud that came from Persia! Brother it’s Persian not Arabic. You said it yourself

[@WombatSteve]

Hello! I don't hear a sound either :(

[@SiddharthS96]

I can hear it now, try refreshing the page!

[@FilipHolm]

Hope the sound works now! Don't know why it wouldn't!

[@tracyking4518]

Ol' Stewball was a racehorse

[@kishascape]

Bowlback or nothing.

[@ToxicVaccines_HivHoax]

First impressions are that the mandolin would be great for a beginner because it is such a compact instrument taking very little space and easier to carry around. 👍🔥

[@FilipHolm]

Definitely!

[@mikelheron20]

You would be wrong. I have taught guitar, ukulele, banjo and mandolin. The mandolin is without a doubt the hardest for beginners. 😊

[@ToxicVaccines_HivHoax]

@@mikelheron20 - And what instrument is the easiest for beginners?

[@marshallferron]

​@ToxicVaccines_HivHoax Ukule is one of the easiest stringed instruments for beginners. If you're only wanting to play melody a diatonic instrument like the Irish tin whistle or the Appalachian dulcimer are great because every note will be in the correct key

[@ToxicVaccines_HivHoax]

A few basic lessons for how to play the mandolin for absolute beginners, would be nice.