No sophisticated measurements of stiffness, just judgement and experience. I weigh tops and backs and try to get a good relationship of weight and stiffness to gauge how to carve the top and back for...
No sophisticated measurements of stiffness, just judgement and experience. I weigh tops and backs and try to get a good relationship of weight and stiffness to gauge how to carve the top and back for...
I ran across this tune web-surfing. I know different things affect people differently, so you may not agree, but I think this is the saddest song I've ever heard. The background story below is from...
I wrote out that tab for the blacksmith a while back. Sorry if it's a bit sketchy, I wrote it as I play it on the GDAD bouzouki. With a tune like that, it's almost impossible to tab it right with...
I don't remember if I had learned it from tab or not. I did create one for my students that I think should be attached in this reply as a . Let me know if you like it.
Silly me! I had not uploaded the mp3 properly to the site here, so no file to link to! No wonder the tune just buffered, and no fault of the Lewis internet connection nor the Edinburgh one, D and K....
I was recently sent (from the Outer Hebrides of Scotland) a copy of this terrific video featuring my good friends mandolinist Donnie and his father, accordionist and gaelic singer Murdo MacDonald. I...
All the credit goes to Peter Coombe.
This may help you both.
http://www.petercoombe.com/Soundhole_trim.htm