Mandolin Mondays Featuring Steve Gilchrist /// Mandolin Taste Test

[@mistahcoughdrop]

Steven Gilchrist! There's the Lloyd Loar of our age! Holy smokes! Like seeing Da Vinci at his drawing board. And a great player!

[@jayjuliecooper8882]

Well said sir. I couldn’t agree more!

[@peterjames2580]

As a mandolin maker is was just wonderful!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bsicotte]

Breath taking.

[@ifolkinrock]

A friend of mine had a Gilchrist and it was the closest thing to a 1920s F5 I have ever heard. This side by side confirms what I had thought at the time when I played it.

[@thefreese1]

Personally I have played several Lloyd Loar F5s ... and none of them came even close to his mandolin that I played . In fact I have had any other mandolin play as good as his..they practally play themselves ...... I sure hope he had an apprentice to carry on.... He has out-done Lloyd Loar at his own game... but jumps and valleys.... But in actuality Loar was trying to build in a factory , Steve o. The other hand only does a few thus has more time to perfect each one as much as possible.... there's a big difference when you only have to make as many as you can vs having to crank out a certain large volume...He's not going to let anything with his na.e on it leave the shop less than perfect... I'm sure Loar had some he considered his best work.. tha were probably as good as the Gilchrist mandolins are. Besides the tone, that neck on a Gilchrist is such a work of art. That fit your hands so good. A lot better any Gibson I've ever touched

[@KeefsCattys]

This is excellent playing . I cant get those wonderful notes on my little 305 Eastman .. better keep practicing . Great video . Thank you

[@bikramjitgoswami9139]

Fantastic.

[@quigley4440]

My ears thank you, my heart thanks you, and my mind thanks you to be able to see a person's face without a bloody mask on it.

[@yoniudkoff3577]

THE LEGEND HIMSELF!! THANK YOU ! BEAUTIFUL TUNE!! Is this his tune "Gnotucky"?

[@DavidBenedictMandolin]

Yeah!

[@f5mando]

Re: the Gilchrist Model 5 he plays here: Mr Gilchrist is completely responsible for that sound, and it is very very good.

[@jamesmoontunes]

Legend.

[@60beats44]

Could anyone assist with a tab version for this tune? and thanks David for this upload.

[@mandolinaddict1565]

Awesome!

[@JustFiddler]

i wish have that mandolin

[@darlenearseneault3356]

I've played a Gilchrist and a collings and I definitely prefer the Collings

[@usualsuspect5173]

The top fell in on my Gibson Sam Bush , i need to find someone who can fix it .

[@DavidBenedictMandolin]

Check out the Mandolin Cafe for a list of qualified luthiers out there.

[@tacratt6091]

Jonathan McClannahan!

[@usualsuspect5173]

@@tacratt6091 👍

[@jeremywanless2450]

Excellent video! Mandolins are supposed to sound like this.

[@stevenacord7642]

What the tune or song.. you're playing the Gilchrist the Killer mandilon👍

[@DavidBenedictMandolin]

Read all about it here: www.mandolincafe.com/forum/entries/1436-Mandolin-Mondays-266-w-Special-Guest-Steve-Gilchrist

[@ethanvanthillo9884]

Wow!

[@mooflaghero1]

What is the song he playing for the test?

[@mandolinaddict1565]

It is one he wrote Tyler. I think he might call it Gnotucky. He lives on Lake Gnotuk in Australia.

[@mooflaghero1]

@@mandolinaddict1565 awesome thanks

[@Naydzart]

Gil’s rule!

[@stevenacord7642]

Love to have one of ur mandolin

[@BlackheartCharlie]

My vote would be for the new Gilchrist. In this recording, I think it has a more pleasant, warm tone. To my ear, the Gilchrist is better balanced across the range of notes; the Loar sounds a bit punchy in the mid range. Anyway, that's one player's opinion.

[@eliotwalsh0]

I'd love to know the name of that song as well. Great playing.

[@mitzioden4926]

The Lloyd Loar has a deeper sound, but the Gilchrist has clearer notes and chords.

[@mandohat]

The gilchrist immediately sounds like a gilchrist. I had no idea Steve picked so well. Sounds terriffic!

[@petermazur2520]

Your mandolin sounds incredible.. Too expensive for me in this life though :-D

[@nicholasdauphinais]

🔥

[@ioanniskostoulas3843]

To my ears Gilchrist sounds better!

[@f5mando]

Gilchrist sounded better on both of them!

[@marcsilverphilly2064]

what's this tune he's playing?