Current goings on:
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Current goings on:
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Glad you enjoyed them both. Yes the collaboration with Luca was improvised.
Khatareh (Reminisce), composed by Mansour Nariman منصور نریمان - خاطره
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Thanks! This is a renaissance instrument called a Vihuela de mano, or Viola da mano. In this case the second name is perhaps a better fit since this is based on an Italian example. It's essentially a...
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Historically mandolins were often played with plectrums made of cherry wood, in a triangular shape roughly similar to modern plectrums (not quills or longer risha-like plectrums), but often shaped...
Maha Chai มหาชัย (Traditional song from Thailand) (duet version)
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Is that a resonator tenor guitar? Great playing, and great idea! I love the combination of playing music whilst sharing a recipe. The internet needs more of this.
The customer is in South Africa.
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I wasn't sure where to put this since it's not technically a video of me. It's also both lutherie/builder content and a video. Hopefully this is OK.
Here's some pictures of the...
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I recently performed a live solo concert, and here are the two halves (there was a short interval in between).
Part 1:
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Part 2:
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Pishdaramad-e Mahur, composed by Ruhollah Khaleqi روحالله خالقی - پیشدرامد ماهور
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Thanks for your kind words. The songs and related research are just accumulated over time from a lifetime's obsession with music!
I arranged and notated these two songs especially (and many...
Two collaborations with Nashenas Naujawan:
'Ani Couni Chaounai' (Traditional Iriquois song):
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'Sindi' (Traditional song from Burkina Faso):
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Beautiful work!
Thanks everyone for your kind words! I'm glad you found the video interesting.
The instrument is now finished (I think I posted it somewhere on MC, but maybe I forgot?). I did record a lot of...
Beautiful pictures, but when I click the in-line pictures to enlarge they open as PDFs instead of image files. Still works, but wondering if anyone else having this issue?
Timelapse of building the body of a Brescian/Cremonese mandolin:
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Came across this on mastodon and thought you might all enjoy. These are both 5 string electric mandolins, as are common in Indian music and made famous by U. Srinivas.
A traditional Sufi song from North Africa:
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A medieval song which (by some video editing) I have played as a duet with myself:
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A sound and video sample of my recently...
A Brescian/Cremonese mandolin I completed this week:
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A song called 'Golrizaan', meaning confetti:
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Another forest improvisation (this time in Dashti):
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An indoor improvisation (have you seen the weather?!):
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