Tim O'Brien
Monday, October 6, 2008

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LATEST: TIM WILL BE PERFORMING AT AN OBAMA CAMPAIGN FUNDRAISER ON OCTOBER 23 IN NASHVILLE AT THE 12th SOUTH TAP ROOM. VISIT THE TOUR PAGE FOR MORE INFO.

NEW ROAD JOURNAL POSTED SEPTEMBER 9.

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Nugget Bouzouki

People ask about this instrument all the time. People think it's an old guitar converted to a mando thing, but it's really another triumph by Mike Kemnitzer of Nugget mandolins. Nugget wanted to make me either a mandola or an arched top guitar, so I said, "Hey, let's combine those ideas into an octave mandolin/bouzouki!" He finished it in 1989. It was an experiment that worked , and I don't know how I ever played music without this thing. I has four pairs of two strings like a mandolin. I tune it, low strings to high, thusly - gG / dD / AA / EE. (Cap letters mean an octave below a normal mando and the lower case letters mean the same octave as a mando, i.e., it has a twelve string guitar effect on the lower two pairs.) The pattern is a slightly shrunken version of the prewar Gibson L-5, ala Mother Maybell Carter. It has a satin finish that gives it a vintage look.




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