''Tone Poems: The Sounds of the Great Vintage Guitars and Mandolins'' is an album of duets by mandolinist

David Grisman David Grisman (born March 23, 1945) is an American mandolinist. His music combines bluegrass, folk, and jazz in a genre he calls "Dawg music". He founded the record label Acoustic Disc, which issues his recordings and those of other acoustic mu ...

and guitarist

Tony Rice David Anthony Rice (June 8, 1951 – December 25, 2020), known professionally as Tony Rice, was an American guitarist and bluegrass musician. He was an influential acoustic guitar player in bluegrass, progressive bluegrass, newgrass and a ...

using vintage instruments.

Track listing

Personnel

– mandolins *

– guitars Some of the songs were performed on instruments made when the songs were written to allow the listener to experience the tonal properties of the original performances. * Track 1:

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1-21 (1891), Gibson A-4 (1905) * Track 2: Gibson Style "0" (1923), Gibson "3-Point" F-4 (1909) * Track 3: Maurer Style 953 (c. 1915),

Lyon & Healy Lyon & Healy Harps, Inc. is an American musical instrument manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois and is a subsidiary of Salvi Harps. Today best known for concert harps, the company's Chicago headquarters and manufacturing facility contains a ...

Style A (1925) * Track 4: Stahl Style 473 (1931),

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Style 202 Lute Mandolin (1919) * Track 5: Martin OM-18 (1931), Gibson A-2Z "Snakehead"(1924) * Track 6:

Martin D-28 The Martin D-28 is a dreadnought-style acoustic guitar made by C. F. Martin & Company of Nazareth, Pennsylvania. History This guitar is a dreadnought design, a naval term adopted and used by many to describe its larger body dimensions, hence t ...

(1935), Gibson

Lloyd Loar Lloyd Allayre Loar (1886–1943) was an American musician, instrument designer and sound engineer. He is best known for his design work with the Gibson Mandolin-Guitar Mfg. Co. Ltd. in the early 20th century, including the F-5 model mandolin an ...

F-5 (1923) * Track 7: Martin 000-45 (1937), Gibson A-4 "Snakehead" (1924) * Track 8: Regal "Le Domino" (1930's), S.S. Stewart "Snow Queen" (1930s) * Track 9:

Martin D-45 The Martin D-45 is a steel-string acoustic guitar model made by C. F. Martin & Company. The model was manufactured from 1933 to 1942, and in a second production series since 1968. Martin originally made the guitar's sides and backs of Brazili ...

(1939), Gibson "Loar" A-5 (1923) * Track 10: Gibson J-100 (1939), Gibson "Fern" F-5 (1925) * Track 11: Gibson L-Century (1936), Martin Style 2-30 (1936) * Track 12:

Gibson Advanced Jumbo The Gibson Advanced Jumbo was an acoustic guitar, acoustic flattop guitar made by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. Introduced in 1936, is still considered a classic. Only 300 guitars were produced before Gibson replaced it with the Gibson J-200 ''Su ...

(1937), Gibson F-12 (1934) * Track 13: Martin 0-18 (1937),

Epiphone Epiphone is an American musical instrument brand that traces its roots to a musical instrument manufacturing business founded in 1873 by Anastasios Stathopoulos in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, and moved to New York City in 1908. After taking over his f ...

strand (1937) * Track 14: Selmer (1950), Gibson F-10 (1934) * Track 15: Martin D-18 (1943), Gibson F-4 (1942) * Track 16: Martin D-28 (1952), Gibson Prototype A-5 (1953) * Track 17: Santa Cruz Tony Rice Model (1993), Gilchrist Model 5 (1993)

References

{{Authority control 1994 albums David Grisman albums Acoustic Disc albums