As Time Goes By
3,928 views · Published 12 February 2012 · 3:24 · Indexed 6 October 2026
Channel: Will Fly · 2012 · Music
A classic 1931 tune from the pen of Herman Hupfield - sung famously by Dooley Wilson in the 1942 film "Casablanca". I'm playing it here in F. The rhythm - chords from a 6-string guitar - underlies the lead which I'm playing on an instrument I've christened the "Mandotenor", and which was made for me by luthier Ian Chisholm [http://www.ianchisholm.co.uk/lutherie/Lutherie.html/]. It's a solid-body instrument carved from joined sections of mahogany, maple and ash, with a single-coil pickup and 5 strings tuned CGDAE. The bottom 4 strings give tenor guitar/viola tuning, and the top 4 strings give mandolin/violin tuning - so I get the best of both worlds. I've chosen a tune like "As Time Goes By" to demonstrate the singing qualities of the instrument, which can be used for all sorts of genres of music including jazz, 1930s standards and traditional tunes... I've plugged it into my 100w Gallien-Krueger, set the high and medium-high EQ to low, the medium-low and low EQ to high, and cranked it up a bit! http://www.mjra.net/WillFly/
