Mandolin

Firm Overview and Introduction to the Case This case was about a forty-year old small business that faced managerial challenges by expanding. Sawchyn Guitars was founded by Peter Sawchyn in 1970. It was a small private business solely owned and operated by Peter Sawchyn and his wife Kendra Sawchyn. The company deals with two main products: acoustic guitars and mandolins. (Woodwark, Wong, p.2). All the models of guitars and mandolins could be custom ordered, repaired and upgraded per customer’s precise needs. The founder of the company Peter Sawchyn had 40 years’ experience of making custom guitars and their repair. He began his career by repairing instruments, when he was a teenager. Forty years he spent in operating his business from his home…

Mandolin glanced behind her to see how much time she had. She needed to buy some time, but it seemed as if there was no way. Either she gets caught or Janis did. Janis, in the middle of an undercover heist, getting caught was a bad idea. However, when the man behind her rounded the corner, hope struck Mandolin. She felt her pockets and found a bobby pin, the broken watch she forgot to fix and the cough drop she took out her mouth so she wouldn’t choke. How could she just let herself come…

“Mandolin” by Rita Dove chronicled the life of Thomas and his journey from Tennessee to Ohio. Similar to the chapter of poems, the mandolin was referenced throughout the chapter along with several other musical references. Poems titled “Jiving” and “Refrain” connected the life of Thomas to the growing black culture in music and art during 1920’s. The collection of poems transition from being centered in nature to living in a lively society. For example from “The Event” to “Straw Hat”, Thomas’…

For the third music critique I am going to talk about the performances of Gunnar Biggs and Bill Bradburry. First of all, I must say this was my favorite performance of the semester so far. I love the bass and it amazes me how beautiful the mandolin plays music. The musician who played the bass was Gunnar while the mandolin was played Bill. They both played Irish traditional music, however in their performance they improvised solos when usually you don’t in Irish traditional music. Both Gunnar…

Country music is a genre of the United States popular music that has originated in the Southern and Southeastern United States in the year of 1920. Country music takes the roots of several music genres from the southeastern part of the United States known as Blues music, folk music, and western music. Country music often consists of ballads and dance tunes. Country music features instruments such as banjos, mandolins, guitars, fiddles, harmonicas, accordions, dulcimers, acoustic bass, jaw harp,…

What was the significance of the violin? The Violin in his work is a representation of his heritage and childhood. When viewing the Violinist on a Bench musician, I believe the figure is his Uncle Neuch sitting on the bench, perhaps waiting for young Chagall to give him a lesson, a memory of his childhood in Vitebsk. The painting the Green Violinist the fiddler on the roof symbolizing the artist identity. Chagall incorporated music early on his work from his painting of his sister Lisa with a…

My father is also not a musical person and can not carry a tune. As I was talking to him I found it very interesting to hear how he looks at music. The first question I asked him was “what is the first experience you can remember of music in your life?” I originally came up with this question because sometimes the way we are exposed to music helps shape our taste in music. My father responded by saying, “I can remember my grandfather playing the mandolin which was the first instrument I ever…

gives the painting an ominous feeling. Another aspect worth noting is the sexual intentions Picasso may have had by subtly placing the guitar to where it seems to take the form of breasts as well as the phallic shape the clarinet, as you can see below. Throughout this painting the forms are all broken up into boxy, flat, and brightly colored abstract shapes giving the viewer a sense of mystery, anxiety, and a form of sexuality. three-musicians.jpg Unlike Synthetic Cubism, Analytic Cubism…

Most of the models they have released are amazing and have been played by many great guitarists. Some guitar models have been more popular than others, some styles are more famous such as the Les Paul and SG guitar body styles (Gibson Guitar). However, all of the guitars made by Gibson are all made with high quality wood, and each are created to be good quality guitars for all musicians all over. The very first guitar model made by the Gibson Guitar Company was the F-5 mandolin and the ES-150…

'I kept recalling everything, lying in bed in the mornings -the tiny steamboat that had a long rounded stern like the lip of a Ubangi, and how quietly he ran on the moonlight sails, when the older boys played their mandolins and the girls sang and they ate doughnuts dipped in sugar, and how sweet the music was on the water in the shining night, and what it had felt like to think about girls then.' The only thing that was wrong now, was the sound of the place, an unfamiliar nervous sound of the…