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  1. Free irish Session Tunebook Out For Community Comment!

    Hey All,

    My music teacher and I developed an Irish trad tunebook that we're putting out here for all to use. I know there’s already a few out there, but this one’s ours! It contains tabs and...
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    Re: Upgrading a tailpiece

    It seems to me that Americans buy instruments to tinker with rather than play music on.


    Dave H
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    Re: Double Time vs. Half Time

    And here I thought a paradoks = khaki pants :confused:
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    The long road back begins at last

    In late September last year, I nearly chopped off the index and middle fingers of my left hand with my table saw. The blade cut cleanly through the tendons, bone and nerves,leaving only some skin and...
  5. Shakespeare's Clowns - Kemp's Jig and Tarleton's Resurrection

    Here are two tunes that are thematically linked, even though they are very different from each other. The link is that each tune celebrates a great comic actor who worked with Shakespeare.

    Kemp's...
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    Mr Dowland's Midnight

    Some Elizabethan melancholy for guitar and mandolin.

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    Re: Fergal Scahill plays O’Donnell’s Hornpipe

    I think one could watch Fergal's videos all day. So much fun.

    Here is one of my favorite tunes.


    https://youtu.be/euezepZPO_w
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    Fergal Scahill plays O’Donnell’s Hornpipe

    Fergal is a great fiddler, but this mandolin video he did is just fantastic. It needs to be shared, so here it is:
    https://youtu.be/ZPDpZUkR0CA

    David
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    Audiation

    I learned a new word this week. Maybe it’s more familiar than I realized, but here it is, anyway.

    https://colorinmypiano.com/2017/11/30/what-is-audiation-exactly/
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    Almain, by Robert Johnson (1583-1633)

    It seemed like my last Renaissance arrangement for mandola was fairly well received, so I thought I'd share tonight's project. This is Almain by Robert Johnson, reharmonized and arranged for solo...
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    my homemade mandolin

    I just finished making another mandolin. I used Graham McDonald’s book as a guide.
    This is the second one I have made using his book.
  12. Poll: Re: Just starting out -- Should I really learn to "read music"?

    As a kid playing clarinet in band, I developed passable skills reading notation, but no ear skills at all to speak of. And we didn't have to memorize anything, either - even in marching band we had...
  13. Poll: Re: Just starting out -- Should I really learn to "read music"?

    learn your dots or you never play complex music (release the penguins) https://lostinthecloud.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/faeries-aire.gif

    more from John Stump here:...
  14. First track from the new Simon Mayor O'Carolan album released

    Enjoy: 'Princess Royal' is the first single release - now available across all streaming and download platforms - taken from the album 'Carolan' by Simon Mayor (scheduled for release 10th March...
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    Re: Christmas Mandolin

    I've always thought this was a nice collection of simply arranged well- and lesser- known tunes.
    Page 26 is a personal favorite. :grin:

    https://pghardy.net/tunebooks/pgh_xmas_tunebook_paged.pdf
  16. Re: Best way to learn to play Smooth and Clean (not sloppy)?

    I think it’s important to work on one thing at a time. What really helped me was playing a lot of right hand exercises, with a metronome.

    The hardest thing about mandolin, for me anyway, is...
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    Re: he's at it again

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPaO9LkZ0vY
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    Re: he's at it again

    Here you go, Hank.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6_DeTzYGHA
  19. Re: Weber Bridge - nut spinning, unable to raise/lower

    "The post on a Brekke Traditional bridge can't possibly turn in that design without major obvious damage to the saddle and probably to the bridge and the instrument itself."

    That is true some of...
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    Another Original Tune

    A person on a recording website offered to master tracks for people. I sent him this track and he worked some magic on it. He has multiple Pultecs and other tube gear that really added some goodness...
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    Mandolino & Theorbo Duet.

    https://youtu.be/CZme5SwFJyI

    This is rather lovely, there are two other videos in the series.
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    Childgrove

    This tune goes all the way back to 1701 and is perhaps named for Sir Josiah Child (c. 1630-1699), a wealthy merchant who purchased the estate of Wanstead House in Essex in 1673. It is speculated...
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    El Noi de la Mare

    I had to make another video of my arrangement of "El noi de la mare" on my mandolin built by Alfred Woll.

    It's the model "Solista" (2021) with a new design - a small cutaway and neck joint at the...
  24. An afternoon picking w/ Andrew Marlin & the Griffith Loar

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    https://youtu.be/FqcVKoA6ZLs

    Thought folks might enjoy seeing photos from an afternoon picking session over at Matt Ruhland's place yesterday (and a truck...
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    Sylvan Dawn

    Dear mandolin friends around the world,

    exactly two years ago, with New York City the epicenter of the pandemic in the US, I did what seemed to be the only reasonable thing to do at that moment:...
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