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we picked up an electric 5 string for Mack and her school to use.
For the past couple of years Mark Woods of the Transiberian Orchestra has worked with our students and put on a performance, “electrify your strings”. Today we picked up a used one of his 5 strings. It is a Mark Woods SVX5 Stingray.
any opinions on 5 strings?
will post pics when it arrives
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I have mixed feelings about the Mark Wood instruments but I do feel that playing on a 5-string violin is a lot of fun. Having that C string available is a plus if you can isolate it and not accidentally play the C when trying to play the G. 
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Fiddlerman said
if you can isolate it and not accidentally play the C when trying to play the G.
I noticed that I angle the bow probably too much when I play the G string (and the E string), so I should get out of that habit. I think I once challenged @Fiddlerman to do the Mendelssohn first movement cadenza on a 5-string, but he didn't see it, or didn't think it was very amusing!
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Gordon, I'm sure I just missed it. LOL
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Here it is...
looks cool, but how will “cool” sound? We will see
also picked up a Gibson GM 05 Amp for 7.99 used
Mack was trying it with her Cecilio. Sounds good and is portable
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Mack goofing around, her music is at school
first song is a song she played in 7th grade called “Contredanse”
she went on MuseScore and printed Yellow Submarine
Connected a “death metal distortion” pedal and thinks she’s Hendrix/Lenny Kravitz https://youtu.be/1GfGjR2J4kQ
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Love Mack's glance at the camera after the "oh, say can you see..." mega reverb snippet.
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She looks like she really gets a kick out of the distortion.
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Mack got an Ibanez electric guitar from her uncle that has a number of different pedals. When she got the new violin it gave her something to fool around with. She didn’t know I was going to post these videos. She said she would have picked a better song lol, which would’ve meant practicing and multiple takes...
kind of like candid instead
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