tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85724680206347627812024-03-12T19:31:38.392-07:00The Martin TipleArtists, history, how they use it and how to use it...Uncle Emilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02184994241290225776noreply@blogger.comBlogger22125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572468020634762781.post-395670802671880322013-09-27T02:13:00.003-07:002013-09-27T02:30:04.623-07:00Tiple actuality...Ed and Ledward.<a href="http://edaskew.bandcamp.com/">Ed Askew</a> is on the air again with this nice duo :
"Dark Horse" sung by Ed with a great Tiple part played by Tyler Evans :<br />
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<a href="http://ledkaapana.com/">Ledward Kaapana</a>, touring in california, recorded with slack key player Fran Guidry two splendid instrumental duos "Nanea Ko Maka I Ka Le`ale`a" and "Lili`u E".
Playing with his great fingerpick style the 1949 T-18 Fran recently acquired.
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And more tunes and sounds in <a href="http://martintiple.blogspot.fr/p/tunes-on-tube.html">the video section</a>....
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Thanks Ian!Uncle Emilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02184994241290225776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572468020634762781.post-31336765716667208042012-03-25T09:42:00.002-07:002012-03-25T11:22:58.201-07:00MARTIN TIPLE T-45 model<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KIT6ayzouno/T29HO-bzzBI/AAAAAAAAA3k/aQ30lehjwtY/s1600/Jimmy-Chu.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Michael Simmons gave us an enigmatic historical fact in his brilliant 2002 tiple article from "The Ukulele Occasional" :<br />
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If Jimmy Chu the Renée "protégé", chauffeur and tiple maestro, died in a silly motor crash the luxuous T45 tiple wasn't in the car.<br />
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If Renée ordered this instrument for the hawaiian master, it's strange that the fancy mother of pearl and turtle decorated tiple made a huge travel via New York to join the west coat and Hollywood....the T45 was built for the William J. Smith Co. of New York.Uncle Emilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02184994241290225776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572468020634762781.post-15267893871253966982012-02-07T05:58:00.000-08:002012-02-11T11:48:13.830-08:00The Hokum Hotshots<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1ixkB-qmSAU/TzEsJSV92sI/AAAAAAAAAw8/NDkwZwEMI3E/s1600/photonew1_03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-1ixkB-qmSAU/TzEsJSV92sI/AAAAAAAAAw8/NDkwZwEMI3E/s1600/photonew1_03.jpg" /></a></div><br />
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<i>"What is Hokum?… Blues with a smile on it's face "</i><br />
<a href="http://www.hokumhotshots.co.uk/" target="_blank"><i> </i>The legendary british duet</a> use this sentence as a guide and sings <i>"a wide variety of 30’s, 40’s and 50’s country blues, west coast swing, jazz and vaudeville".</i><br />
Starting their blues career at the South Tyne Folk and Blues club back in the late 60's Jim Murray and Pete Mason plays with great feeling and instrumental skills a wide variety of vintage instruments or accurate luthier copies, acoustic guitars, steel guitars, mandolins, ukulele and of course a tiple , played by Pete.<br />
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</div><div style="color: #783f04;"><i>Pete Mason, In the article I talk of the Hokum Hotshots history that starts in the 60's but you're the tiple player, so let's get specific,when did you played for the first time the instrument ?</i></div><div style="color: #b45f06;">I first came across the tiple in the early 1980s, thanks to an old friend, Brian Cookman, who also played tiple. Brian was a great blues and jug band singer and player, and a huge influence on the Hokum Hotshots. He sadly died in 2005.</div><br />
<div style="color: #783f04;"><i>Have you met Alexis Korner in the 60's 70's? heard his tiple tunes ?</i></div><div style="color: #b45f06;">We met Alexis Korner when we played support to him on his last UK tour at a gig in Darlington. I did not realise he played tiple, but I am now looking into his discs to learn more.</div><div style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #783f04;"><i>Old country music, and prewar blues sometimes met the tiple, also 30's/40's black swing/vocal/strings bands, was some of those artists an inspiration ?</i></div><div style="color: #b45f06;">I was not influenced by any tiple players but since have looked at groups such as The Cats and The Fiddle, The Five Cousins and The Spirits of Rhythm. Whilst these groups are interesting, I have not really been inspired by them. I enjoy the songs of Big Boy Teddy Edwards, who showed that blues was well suited to the tiple.</div><div style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #783f04;"><i>Is your Tiple a Martin ? did you own other tiples?</i></div><div style="color: #b45f06;">My tiple is a Ralph Bown, and is the only one I own.</div><div style="color: #b45f06;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #783f04;"><i>Your Ralph Bown have been electrified, what kind of inside pick-up instalation is used?<br />
what's your approach to get all those accoustics vintage treasures amplified on stage ?</i></div><div style="color: #b45f06;">My tiple is amplified by a Barcus-Berry (or similar) lozenge type pick up. We use Bose amplification on stage with Orchid Electronics di boxes. This combination gives a true amplification of acoustic instruments.</div><div style="color: #783f04;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #783f04;"><i>Can you describe your feelings about the particularities of the tiple ?</i></div><div style="color: #b45f06;">I love the sound of the tiple. It is unlike any other stringed instrument I have ever played. The balance of its size, the arrangement of the strings, and the sound that comes out of it make it inspiring to play.</div><div style="color: #783f04;"><i><br />
Are you an exclusive "pick" player? did you sometimes use a more "uke" technique, with nude right hand, strumms and picking ?</i></div><div style="color: #b45f06;">I play tiple exclusively with a flat pick. I’m not sure how else to play it!</div><div style="color: #b45f06;"><i><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;">What's your tiple tuning and why this choice?</span></i></div><div style="color: #b45f06;">My tiple is tuned B,F#,D,A. This is because I do not usually play in any tunings, and it takes me all my time to master this tuning!</div><div style="color: #783f04;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #783f04;"><i>Did the audience sometimes react to the particular instrument and what about musicians met in festivals and blues manifestations?</i></div><div style="color: #b45f06;">Wherever I play, the tiple attracts great interest both from musicians and audience as I have yet to meet any other tiple players.</div><div style="color: #783f04;"><br />
</div><div style="color: #783f04;"><i>In an duet arrangement did you consider the tiple as a guitar family instrument or a high strunged , mandolin or uke cousin? could you imagine, as did the "Golden Melody Boys", a tiple/mandolin duet for a tune?</i></div><div style="color: #b45f06;">Sometimes I think of the tiple extending the guitar’s range, sometimes as a mandolin-type sound but mostly it has its own sound. The mandolin/tiple duet could well break the sound barrier!</div><div style="color: #783f04;"><br />
<i>Do you choose the tiple to give a more urban "vaudeville" piano-roll colour to a song or could it be used also in a pure roots south country blues interpretation?</i></div><div style="color: #b45f06;">I like the reference to “piano-roll” colour as this is very much in my mind when we play the music of Georgia Tom Dorsey and Leroy Carr. On the country blues side Tommy Johnson songs seem to suit the tiple, but playing with National steel guitars makes for interesting contrasts.</div><div style="color: #b45f06;"><i><br />
<span style="color: #783f04;">A last word to our tiple players and fans arround the world?</span></i></div><div style="color: #b45f06;">My view is that there are no limits. If you want to play jazz, blues, country, old-timey, rock and roll or punk- just do it!<br />
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</div><div style="color: #783f04;">Ralph Bown is a country blues oriented renown british luthier and a long time partner for the HH . according to <a href="http://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/%7Eafm/music/bown/interview.html" target="_blank">this interesting interview</a> in 1991 he had built 8 tiples, Martin tiples copys.</div><div style="color: #783f04;">Maybe I'll post more information in the future. Unfortunatly <a href="http://www.ee.ed.ac.uk/%7Eafm/music/bown/" target="_blank">his site</a> is currently on construction.</div></div><br />
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Later he became a major country music and bluegrass sideman guitarist in the Nashville studios from 1953 to 1991, with 15,000 sessions on the clock he had time to experiment different instruments and tiple was one of those.<br />
At the end of the 50's bluegrass producers search for new sounds and instruments melted flavors: mouth harps, pianos, accordions and sometimes tiple follows the slide guitars and the sacred "banjo mandolin fiddle guitar" combinations.<br />
Between 1959 & 1962 he's credited on tiple for 3 sessions :<br />
in 1959 with the Osborne Brothers , then for the 1959 Mac Wiseman "Great Folk Ballads" album and in 1962 again with Wiseman for "Bluegrass Favorites"<br />
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We can learn more on the early blues dedicated radio and site <a href="http://sundayblues.org/archives/tag/big-boy-teddy-edwards" target="_blank">"Big road blues"</a> :<br />
<i>Little is known about "Big Boy" Teddy Edwards, a Chicago singer played both guitar and tiple and cut around two-dozen sides between 1930 and 1936 as well as contributing vocals to sessions by the Hokum Boys and Papa Charlie Jackson. Big Bill Broonzy recalled working with him and Papa Charlie Jackson. Today we spin the solo "Alcohol Mama" and the band backed "W – P – A Blues", a terrific cover of the Big Bill number. </i><br />
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A complete recordings compilation with a lot of tiple on <a href="http://www.document-records.com/fulldetails.asp?ProdID=DOCD-5440" target="_blank">Document Records .</a><br />
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A half dozen of recordings were made of Teddy alone with is tiple:<br />
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The others recordings with the combo, more in a "pop blues"style, offers another kind of tiple playing, with sometimes intros, solos and elaborate strumms as maybe Big Bill Broonzy plays beautiful conterpoint guitar bass lines .<br />
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Notice the possibly tiple intro for "Who Did You Give My Barbecue To?" with an aware tremolo mandolin like technique :<br />
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As told by Tony Russell in "Country Music Originals: The Legends and the Lost" Dempsy Jones was a baseball player and lately manager and the Linn County Recorder, Featherstonehaugh "didn't have much a profession" and was run in for transporting liquor in an automobile and fined 300$ in 1925 but he was a fine mandolin player. <br />
The duet was locally successful around 1925 and recorded for paramount in Chicago during1927.<br />
Fans could follow them on stage and on local radio shows to hear an old time repertoire with comedy tunes and a few instrumentals with "modern" chords & strums ornamentation and nice melodies .<br />
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5 tunes could be find on the <a class="profile-name-link" href="http://www.blogger.com/profile/06922107652086328241" rel="author">Davey O'Hoolahan </a>blog with this <a href="http://daveophonics.blogspot.com/2009/02/early-country-music-vol-2.html" target="_blank">vinyl compilation</a> , but the blog description is wrong when speaking about a guitar mandolin duet ( except for guitar rag for my opinion)<br />
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The complete Paramount recordings can be found in this tremendous <a href="http://juneberry78s.com/mp3coop/JB%20CDR%20MP3%20105.htm" target="_blank">600 mp3 20's/30's old time music </a>compilation for 10$ (J15108 Parker and Woolbright - Golden Melody Boys)<br />
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According to record credits ( here compiled in : "the first génération of country music stars" by <span class="addmd">David Dicaire ) Buster Bate, son of Humphrey, played the instrument occasionaly as he played Jew's harp harmonica & fiddle but no audio or photograph his here to testify, his sister Alcyone played "ukelele" (photographs) and piano.</span><br />
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According to the Kip Lornell "Virginia's blues, country & gospel records, 1902-1943: an annotated discography",<br />
this obscure country band of textile mill workers recorded six sides of ballroom music for Okeh in 1927.<br />
Two guitars, a fiddle and a (T18?) tiple played by Leonard Jennings. <br />
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Hard to find audio but two tracks on the tube reveals that the tiple is strummed as the rythm guitar :<br />
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They came back as old timmers in the 70's but only one veteran of the Okeh sessions is here :<br />
Richard Bigger the fiddler.<br />
Leonard Jennings passed away in 1977. <br />
Audio of the 8-tracks 70's recordings and details about the "new" group<a href="http://saggyrecordcabinet.blogspot.com/2009/02/four-virginians.html" target="_blank"> here</a>.Uncle Emilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02184994241290225776noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572468020634762781.post-49156225205999120892011-12-19T05:44:00.000-08:002012-02-10T03:23:23.793-08:00The Ukulele Occasional #1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-huyfgFkZlPI/Tu812tb5E2I/AAAAAAAAAsg/Ro79Ud8AsE4/s1600/UOp00.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-huyfgFkZlPI/Tu812tb5E2I/AAAAAAAAAsg/Ro79Ud8AsE4/s400/UOp00.jpg" width="266" /></a></div>You can find in this 2002 first issue of the magnificant ukulele devoted magazine a very complete article about the tiple, Michael Simmons wrote it, former staffer at Gryphon Stringed Instruments he contributed to Acoustic Guitar magazine, Fretboard Journal and others specialised publications.<br />
He goes deep in the instrument history back in the 1500's in South America and scrolls along the complicated familiy tree on the continent and west indies to the north american 20's Martin rebirth with the "my dog has fleas" similar tuning.<br />
Complete information can be found about the company models and fabrication boards, and of course the Regal, Lyon & Healy and other brands models.<br />
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A wide chronologic panorama of tiple players is presented with of course the swing era groups but also a lot of players from the 20's to 90's decades, obscure or not.<br />
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Dr Humphrey Bate and the Possum Hunters <br />
Nortfolk Jazz Quartet "novelty singing with Tiple" Decca rec label<br />
Wendell Hall <br />
Dempsey and Phil Jones (the Golden Melody Boys) <br />
Jimmy Chu <br />
The Lewis Bronzeville five<br />
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Osborne Brothers (bluegrass tiple)<br />
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Andrew Hardin Tom Russell<br />
Grady Nutt <br />
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Ry Cooder <br />
Phil Manzanera <br />
Mark Orton Tin Hat Trio<br />
Nick Didkovsky<br />
Eugene Chadbourne<br />
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<a href="http://www.elderly.com/books/items/588-1.htm" target="_blank">Ukulele Occasional #1</a> for sale at Elderly<br />
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present & future quotes of the article<br />
Courtesy of "Michael Simmons"Uncle Emilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02184994241290225776noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572468020634762781.post-29633416054503325702011-12-14T02:53:00.000-08:002012-02-10T03:26:43.853-08:00Dianetic Tiple<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sVfGtqhzaCU/Tuh_cYKCz3I/AAAAAAAAAsQ/9_B4zOHKB8Y/s1600/p13_3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-sVfGtqhzaCU/Tuh_cYKCz3I/AAAAAAAAAsQ/9_B4zOHKB8Y/s1600/p13_3.jpg" /></a></div>Scientology and Tiple ....what a weird cocktail!<br />
Ron Hubbard owned a post 1933 T28 Martin Tiple, it's obvious that he could played the instrument as could a longtime uke player (he bought a decal pineapple Kamaka ukulele in 1927 in Hawaii and boast about having inspired Arthur Godfrey with his Washigton DC Radio banjo,uke & talk broadcasting performances in the 40's)<br />
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Born in Paris in 1928, austrian greek/turkish by his parents, Alexis Koerner lived in France, Switzerland, North africa and finaly reach London in 1940 were he felt in love with the blues during the blitz !<br />
British blues pioneer in the 50's he brings the delta and chicago riffs to most of the mid 60's brit pop heroes young ears (Stones, Cream, Mayall, Page etc..) His focus on the 10 stringed instrument goes far more than a guitarist interest for a funny little instrument as told in a page by Tom Robinson about AK instruments :<br />
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A"heavy" Korner & Snape title, "Country Shoes" with <br />
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A 1971 Robert Johnson cover with wild tiple playing,<br />
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"Evil hearted woman" with the same bluesy mid-oriental touch<br />
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here at the 2011 Fairfax Festival :<br />
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Supported by a conceptual and well designed <a href="http://hobolandia.com/Hobolandia/This_is_Hobolandia_.html" target="_blank">mysterious site</a>….Uncle Emilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02184994241290225776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572468020634762781.post-55483125152281901382011-11-22T04:54:00.000-08:002012-02-10T03:30:19.402-08:00Not in tune.........an intersting fact, asserted by Paul Hostetter in this Mandolin Café topic : <a href="http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/showthread.php?66912-Tiple-Trouble..." target="_blank">" Tiple trouble".</a><br />
The <a href="http://www.lutherie.net/lutherie.html" target="_blank">brillant luthier</a> consider that the makers builded all their tiples out of tune with full knowledge of the facts:<br />
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<i>"One important point with tiple bridges, whether they're on Martins or Regal or L&H instruments, is that the parallel fret means they will never play in tune. Most people play them as a novelty item, not as a musical instrument, and it therefore won't matter. Whacking chords in first position, yes; above the third fret: ouch. "</i><br />
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He solve the problem with this particular bridge compensation , encouraging every tiple owner to do so for a perfect tuning ..... You thought your instrument was hard to tune because of unison and octave pairs and trios, maybe Paul is opening our eyes and ears....<br />
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Terry Staker built this gorgeous bridge ( all details in this <a href="http://fretsnet.ning.com/forum/topics/tiple-intonation?id=2177249%3ATopic%3A60135&page=1#comments" target="_blank"><i>Tiple intonation</i></a> topic<i> </i>on Frets.net) :<br />
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Wm_J_t-juf4/TsgaWVvxF3I/AAAAAAAAAqg/_lmXnQ20r1A/s1600/l-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Wm_J_t-juf4/TsgaWVvxF3I/AAAAAAAAAqg/_lmXnQ20r1A/s1600/l-1.jpg" /></a> The most particular and unique tiple artist is with no doubt Ed Askew, the underground folk singer; also known for his paintings he travelled the last 50 years droping few tunes now considered as masterpieces.<br />
Rediscoverd and honored by the new folk scene he's a pure songwriter, singing his poetry with an intense white voice and a strong folk-played tiple for only orchestration.<br />
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His "life story" with the ten strings instrument began as he was a child and is nicely related in <a href="http://www.lastfm.fr/user/ecaskew/journal/2009/06/05/2ry0g9_how_i_got_my_martin_tiple" target="_blank">this article</a> named "how I got my martin tiple" he wrote for the "fretboard Journal" in 2009, but the incredible full of karma and beloved T15 story , lost in a train, continues here, in a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh8MgXR3YcM" target="_blank">youtube confession….</a><br />
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We can find in a Jacob Kaplan 2011 interview this exchange about the tiple:<br />
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<i><b>JK </b>Did your tiple playing change between Ask the Unicorn and Little Eyes?<br />
<b>EA</b> A little. I became more precise. I could pick out melodic lines. If you listen to [Little Eyes], the tiple playing is much more specific. The thing that kind of broke my heart was . . . I got really good at the tiple, later on. I got much better later on. But none of that ever got recorded.<br />
<b>JK</b> I read somewhere that for you the very act of playing the tiple—something you don’t do much anymore—affects the way you sing, the timbre of your voice.<br />
<b>EA</b> When I played the tiple I used to tend to dance, so that would have an effect on the way I sang. The whole thing was very intense, and the tiple’s loud. It doesn’t look loud, but it’s very loud. And I suppose it had to do with those songs.</i><br />
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an interesting comment about the hardness of the instrument playability and it's implication in the artist personality <i>:</i><br />
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<i>The tiple's ten steel strings are tuned high like a ukulele, with which it shares a bombastic tone and lingering projection. Introduced by Martin in 1924, the instrument is notoriously difficult to play, and much of Ask the Unicorn's irresistible appeal involves Askew's heroic and not-always-entirely-successful attempts to keep the damned thing under control while simultaneously keeping up with the songs' relentless vocals.</i><br />
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Ed , playing a tiple tune in 2010.<br />
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In 2007 Ed hardly played the tiple and asks Joshua Burkett to play with him on this <a href="http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/25066" target="_blank">Set / interview appearence</a><i><a href="http://./">. </a></i><br />
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The young Psych- folk artist plays an unknown new<i> </i>tiple showing a particular headstock profile.<br />
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<a href="http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/5538" target="_blank">http://bombsite.com/issues/1000/articles/5538 </a><br />
<a href="http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/05/20/forgotten-songwriters-pt1-ed-askew/" target="_blank">http://www.moteldemoka.com/2007/05/20/forgotten-songwriters-pt1-ed-askew/</a><br />
<a href="http://psychedelicbaby.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-interview-with-ed-askew.html" target="_blank">http://psychedelicbaby.blogspot.com/2011/02/my-interview-with-ed-askew.html</a><br />
<a href="http://www.dragcity.com/products/imperfiction">http://www.dragcity.com/products/imperfiction</a>Uncle Emilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02184994241290225776noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572468020634762781.post-25115838823027237882011-11-14T08:08:00.000-08:002012-02-10T03:34:02.676-08:00The Talbot Brothers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oBGMykISmT8/TsFAXxBj8UI/AAAAAAAAAp0/e5V1PFbJluI/s1600/TalbotB.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="331" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oBGMykISmT8/TsFAXxBj8UI/AAAAAAAAAp0/e5V1PFbJluI/s640/TalbotB.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Despite of it's northern location, Calypso was introduced in Bermuda during the 40's as modern post-war aviation brought tourism in the islands. The Talbot Brothers was at this time and for twenty years the trinidadian music indisputed ambassadors, mostly for white tourists in search of exotica.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"> Five real brothers plus a cousin, they came with a particular Calypso instrumentation, </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">using a remarquable self made upright bass (as jamaicans use the marimbula for mento/calypso), accordion , harmonica and a Martin T18 tiple as mento players mostly use a small banjo.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Brian "Dick" Talbot is not well heard in the records, melted with the three guitars his tiple strumm is not clearly discernable but we have an exception with this "atomic" track from 1957:</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">At my opinion the sound engineer located Dick near from the microphone such as the voice / maracas .</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">A typical bouncy calypso strumm is played with an alternative mute/stroke right hand technique.</span>Uncle Emilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02184994241290225776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572468020634762781.post-7344428850231730592011-11-01T10:46:00.000-07:002012-02-10T03:36:00.070-08:00MARTIN TIPLE T-17 & T-15 models<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uG9F6d9rtu8/TrAuIeNhvSI/AAAAAAAAAkE/cnSxOxwmUO8/s1600/1927T-17.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uG9F6d9rtu8/TrAuIeNhvSI/AAAAAAAAAkE/cnSxOxwmUO8/s400/1927T-17.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><style>
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</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Informations and Martin Tiples production log book pages is shared here, in this other great MartinTiple fan blog : <a href="http://www.myspace.com/martintiple/photos">Brian Myspace page</a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="tab-stops: 28.3pt 56.65pt 85.0pt 113.35pt 141.7pt 170.05pt 198.4pt 226.75pt 255.1pt 283.45pt 311.8pt 340.15pt;"><span lang="EN-US">Prices, courtesy of Michael Simmons ( his astounding Tiple article in the Ukulele Ocasional first issue is a bible and will be </span><span lang="EN-US">frequently </span><span lang="EN-US">credited in this pages …)</span></div> <span lang="EN-US"></span><br />
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<i>I saw the splendor of the moonlight<br />
On Honolulu Bay<br />
There's something tender in the moonlight<br />
On Honolulu Bay</i><br />
as she was leaving New York aboard the "Le Berengaria" sailing to Cherbourg and a crazy international success for the next ten years and so on....<br />
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This photograph shows her with a nice white bended uke at her arrival in Paris with the cast of "La Revue Negre" Sept. 22 1925. She was another "uke friendly" artist of the 20's probably knowing tne basic chords of the instrument ....<br />
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Marc Allegret and the "Zouzou" producers tried to recreate in 1933 the magic cocktail : sexotica/tenderness with this musical melodrama based in Marseille melting Cabaret family secrets & the 30's star Jean Gabin as a perfect sailor lover, and Scotto as composer ...but the film wasn't a success.<br />
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The magic tiple song sequence seems to be played by the star , a simple strumm with a touchy interpretation.... The decorated bidding could indicate maybe a Regal model ...but it's surely not a Martin.<br />
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A beautiful film still, A Sheet Music for the over song of the film "Haiti" and a nice colored promotional photograph all courtesy of Cyril Lefebvre collectionUncle Emilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02184994241290225776noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8572468020634762781.post-45895452114415161542011-10-06T10:50:00.000-07:002012-02-10T03:45:11.335-08:00Spirits Of Rhythm<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pu_pDQsK1hg/TpBogo_xYPI/AAAAAAAAAgA/74Gh-BHg0o8/s1600/891sor.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661139641574711538" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pu_pDQsK1hg/TpBogo_xYPI/AAAAAAAAAgA/74Gh-BHg0o8/s400/891sor.jpg" style="cursor: hand; cursor: pointer; display: block; height: 222px; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; width: 400px;" /></a><br />
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Tiple & strings swing combo pioneers , the "Spirits Of Rhythm" (early named The Sepia Nephews, Ben Bernie's Nephews, The Five Cousins) came to life with the add of Teddy Bunn as guitarist in 1932.<br />
Three Tiple players joined the group , two at a time on air, including Leo Watson, one of the greatest scatmen of the swing era.<br />
Here, on a movie set playback ("Sweetheart Of The Campus" 1941) , he use a Martin tenor ukulele while singing but the Tiple was his scene instrument.<br />
Behind him, one of the Daniel brothers strumms a Martin Tiple<br />
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Douglas Daniels - tiple<br />
Walter Daniels - tiple<br />
Teddy Bunn - guitar<br />
Wellman Braud - bass<br />
Wilson Myers - bass<br />
Leo Watson - vocals, tiple<br />
Virgil Scoggins - percussion<br />
Red McKenzie - percussion<br />
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Nothing to say that the entire 30's discography is pure jumpin'gold...<br />
including classics of comedy jazz as "Dr Watson and Mr Holmes"<br />
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Here, showing their boucing skills, Tiple strumms by Jimmy Henderson and pre-Hendrix "behind the head" Tenor guitar playing by Ernie Price (taking the Tiple in 1940 as Tiny Grimes, the future Bop guitarist, takes the tenor guitar ....)<br />
The movie is "The Duke Is Tops" (aka "The Bronze Venus")1938 , They sing "Killin' Jive." with weed smoking related lyrics in front of a "Medecine Show" set...<br />
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Unfortunetly the copy of this apearence is very bad in terms of image...<br />
but the Jimmy Henderson Tiple seems to be here ....well heard in this country western "race film" "Two-Gun Man From Harlem," starring Herb Jeffries, also in 1938.<br />
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Another "The Cats & the Fiddle" contribution to the Hollywood buisness in 1938 :<br />
"Snow Gets In Your Eyes," dressed in Tyrolean costumes they sing "The Harlem yoddle" with the Dandridge Sisters and a couple of comedy scatmen .<br />
Great choregraphy with an interesting musical bridge introduçing Tiple and tenor guitar isolated notes. Close ups shows clearly the Tiple and the thumbpick righthand techniques used in those specifics swing strumms .<br />
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The following stills shows the 1940/41 formation introducing Tiny Grimes playing Tenor Guitar and Ernie Price taking the Tiple : Notice the remarquable white instruments customisation, with strass decorative segments on the Tiple table...probably a Martin instrument.<br />
Those great documents and all informations cames from this <a href="http://www.uncamarvy.com/CatsAndTheFiddle/catsandthefiddle.html">very complete Biography</a> of the group By Marv Goldberg :<br />
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Timmie Rogers (Timothy Louis Ancrum) 1915–2006<br />
Known as a pioneer of emancipated black stage comedy in the united states, he was also a tiple player and composer, adding songs in his shows during his entire career.<br />
Back in the 20's dançing in the streets at 8 he joined the vaudeville circuit and was part of a successful dance duo in the 30's "Timmie & Freddie", probably learning uke & tiple in the early 30's as so many ...<br />
Then, in the 40's & 50's he was the first black comedy artist acting alone, without blackface make up and stereotype racial clichés in front of a white audience … also known for his tuxedo wearing on stage and his famous"Oh Yeah !" gimmick.<br />
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He starts on TV Shows in 1949 "Sugarhill times" an "all stars" show with Belafonte, Armstrong, and guests as The Charioteers , probably singing & playing tiple…<br />
Then during the 50's he appears many times with Jackie Gleason and later in the 60's in The Dom DeLuise Show.<br />
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Then, he shows up several times in the 70's "Sanford & son" sitcom with Redd Foxx (John Elroy Sanford) singing old times duos with an electrified T28 showing an humbucker style pickup betwin the neck and the hole, a pickgard and two buttons... probably a luthier customisation.<br />
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As a composer and singer he ran a parallel career, sharing scenes with Jazz artists he met Nat Cole and wrote for him “If You Can’t Smile and Say Yes, Please Don’t Cry and Say No” and for Tommy Dorsey “Everybody Wants To Go To Heaven, But Nobody Wants To Die" and probably much more for other artists.<br />
As an interpret he started in the 40's with for example this patriot 1944<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ww3M0SqBHc&feature=related">"Bring Enough Clothes For Three Days"</a><br />
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Then during the RockN'Roll decade he recorded some hot 78rpm around 1957 for Cameo records <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Seqdcn-0qYw&feature=related">"Take me to your leader"</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0mh-ijuWUc&feature=related">"Back to school again"</a> but the notable one is here <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k80Tp9EPBaE&feature=player_embedded">"I've Got A Dog Who Loves Me"</a> with what I think is an open chord tiple strumm covering the entire song…..wow !! a real RockN'Roll tiple hit!<br />
...the later soul funk <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQvLOpPlXAI&feature=related">"Chicken Back"</a> sounds more like a lousy come back... of course without tiple.<br />
The splendid black and white photograph come from this page :<br />
<a href="http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/timmie-rogers-revolutionary-black-comedy">an interview of his daughter Joy King</a> were she report a small museum project in Portsmouth showcasing his father memorabilia, including the famous Martin tiple....is it the old 50's/60's T28 showing strum wear on the table or the 70's electrified one ?Uncle Emilehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02184994241290225776noreply@blogger.com2