Lloyd Loar played a custom 10 string mandola, I believe you can find old pictures of his work bench and see it

I would suppose playing alone at home, fiddle tunes and Irish traditional songs are fine on the mandola. I have just purchased a flattop mandola, hoping to continue to play the music I have studied under you for the last decade. I look forward to hearing this difference. Thanks for explaining the variances. Have a great day, Baron!

Love the sound of the Bouzouki!!! Started the Mandolin a little over a month ago and now I want a Bouzouki.

Thank you for putting out this video. I'm a big fan and Patron student of yours. My Cittern is tuned, G, D, G, D, G. I have a dedicated Irish Bouzouki that I tune. G, D, A, D and my octave mandolin is tuned G, D, A, E same as mandolin. The good thing is that the Irish Tenor Banjo is also tuned G, D, A, E. These instruments give my Celtic Band lots of tonal variety which also adds that certain authentic sound to the various Celtic tunes the band plays.

Back in September, I got back from the Thomas Point Beach Bluegrass Festival, and someone had been playing an Octave Mandolin. When I got home, I was immediately SUPER into learning all about the mandolin family! Thanks!

I finally was able to purchase an octave mandolin!

'm a guitar player, meeting fiddle playing people, got me a fiddle, but I wanted to learn accord, the mandolin was tuned like a fiddle, so I bought a mandolin. I am still in training. HAPPY NEW YEAR!! ​

This is a great overview. I love your penchant to spontaneously break into "Shove the Pig's Foot" during your demos. Great tune!

Uh oh. You've got me jonesing for a cittern and I can barely play the mandolin! 🤣 Great video, Baron! Ironically it was your video from a few years back where you compared mandolin, mandola, and octave mandolin that got me started down this path!

I love to play the mandolin. Maybe one day I will buy an octave mandolin, but for now there is so much to discover on the mandolin for me. :-)

Congrats on finally having collected a great example of each type. For most of us, that never happens. My D-35 is my only lifetime instrument.

Great collection of instruments! Each with their own niche! I’d love them all

Fantastic summary! Exactly what I needed. Thanks!

The 5:11 instrument is a mandoliola (mandolin and mandola hybrid) or simply liola or contralto mandoliola and 7:19 is an octave mandoliola or baritenor mandoliola.

41st subscriber LIKE; 343rd desktop view... no such thing as 'too many instruments...' - some good assortment of ear-candy in this episode; my ears are smiling.

Mandolas seem to be somewhat popular in irish music..obviously the octave mandolin is superseding it i think.

Thanks for this super-helpful video! I really like your comparisons in style of music. I am trying to choose between Greek bouzouki, Irish bouzouki and cittern. Your video has pushed me towards cittern as I play a lot of medieval music and love Scandinavian music, which is so close to medieval already. Well done and thanks again

Very good presentation of these instruments. I'm currently building a bouzouki banjo. It will be fun to hear and play. Thanks.

Well done!

Thanks! This was a lot of great info!

I am really happy with my Eastman A style F hole, but for some reason I mostly play my cheap Kentucky Army Navy (pancake) mandolin. This channel is great. You have some beautiful instruments.

Who makes the bouzouki? It's beautiful and sounds great.

so I guess you could call this posting, "Mondo Mando"? i'm afraid you lost me along the way when you started talking about, "it's like the top four strings of the guitar tuned an octave lower, kind of like a Mandola tuned like a Mandocello... I was really looking forward to learning about the mandolin family but I just got so confused by all these different tunings and what not and I would've definitely preferred less talk and more playing. You've got a great touch on your instruments! I still don't have a grasp on instruments in the mandolin family.

Thanks for the video, very useful. I thought I was looking for a mandola to supplement my mandolin, but a 10 string may give me both sounds and not take up space (important as I live on a boat)

Many thanks for the very helpful comparison video. Btw, is the Tenor Guitar a custom build - are they still making them?

Now I’m going to have to look at cittern videos…

I think you forgot about one. The tater bug.

I got a 12 string guitar witch l tune up octave on mando on the top 4 courses , Cheaper way to get an octave mando .

I'm curious about the 5 course instruments tuned in 5ths. From a straight notes perspective, C2-E4 (17th fret A5), gets you a grandstaff worth of notes. Why isn't it a more popular option? Are your 5 course instruments notably harder to play? Do chords get strange? Is it simply tradition, i.e., we play 4 course instruments because the instruments have 4 courses? Humans have been doing music for a few thousand years, so we've tried a few variations. If something isn't done a certain way, it's usually for good reason. __ Oh, read the comments. You don't do replies. If anyone else has any idea, I'm curious.

What about a Banjolin / Mandolin Banjo ?

Baron, can you share the maker of the cittern you used in this video?

Awesome ty

This may be a strange question, but when I try and find an Octave Mandolin for sale I only ever get mandolins. Is an Octave literally just a mandolin with different strings and tune, or does it have an entirely different body/frame?!

15:00 It’s A Bouzouki, But The Irish Have It Tuned Like A Joke (Fiddle) For Their Music A Bouzouki is like a Guitar but Tuned Down A Whole Step A Guitar = 7 Strings (B E A D G B E) A Barialto Guitar = 7 Strings (A D G C F A D) A Bouzouki = 6 (Singular, Unison or Octave) Strings (D G C F A D)

Virtual petting zoo :-)

I see you have 3 row button accordion behind ya that type do you have ? I have Saltarelle Awen Diatonic Button Accordion BC, 30 button Anglo Concertina CG & bunch of harmonicas. I have 3 types of Long Scale Citterns in different woods. I play Old Time fiddle tunes, bluegrass, Jazz, Classical, Irish fiddle tunes and Beatles & Doors on all my instruments. ''What is a traditionalist some one is stuck in the mud and blind !! Take Bluegrass until Clarence White & Doc Watson there was No Solo Guitar they were just back up instrument. Take Irish traditional music there was no Bouzouk until Andy Irvine brought back a Greek Bouzouk from Eastern Europa Dónal Lunny ask Andy if he could have the Greek Bouzouk ? Andy said go ahead. Dónal restring the Bouzouk with double courses strings and dropping the octave strings. Take David Grisman dawg music the traditionalist had a hard time with dawg music . ''REMEMBER Bill Monroe took old time hillbilly music and throw in some jazz onto the music and call it bluegrass !! You can't play this or that music with that instrument !!! That statement is total Horse Cookies !! I seen this Englishman play Johann Sebastian Bach Anglo Concertina it blow me away ! I say again traditionalist some one is stuck in the mud and blind !!