I've been playing around with a new instrument which I commissioned from my old luthier mate Ian Chisholm. 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 call it a "mandotenor".

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!

As Time Goes By