photo: Patrick House
Mark Heard
On Satellite Sky, the last record that Los Angelesbased
Heard
released before
he died, he played an electric mandolin on every track. The instrument in
question was a 1939 National Resophonic
metal-bodied model; the resonator had been removed and replaced with National's
"Silvo" pickup attachment. (National offered this option for only
a couple of years in the late '30s.) He also owned an Epiphone
mandolin.
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