Glad you enjoyed them both. Yes the collaboration with Luca was improvised.
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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Here's a song I wrote on a train between London and Amsterdam...
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(Sheet music here if you want to play it: https://i.imgur.com/SUxSQIV.png)
...and here's another bit of playing in the...