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Ah, if only I could fly over like a bird... :) What was the line from that poem, "Ik zou een vogel willen zijn..."?

Warm regards to all my dear, dear friends who will attend. I will be with you...

I can vouch for the lovely sound - Rob was playing very near to me at EMGO last night; a great mandolin. I can see why you found it difficult to let it go!

As you will see, my mandolin playing has a long way to go. But here's a start. One of the 12 Divertimenti from John Goodin's Mel Bay publication:


https://youtu.be/JcFy1ICbRNo

Margriet,
The dark side of the mandolin was fun. Thanks for posting.
Bill

The link in the OP didn't work for me until I logged in to FB. But here's the video from youtube:

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i haven't looked forward to the release of a cd in a long time ...
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not sure this should be posted here and i don't know how to post it to the cafe site on facebook but it's fabulous!

https://www.facebook.com/fausto.mesolella/videos/901371663303995/

That's one amazing instrument - all from one block of wood too - here are the videos without facebook:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_18qReD5MZg


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4csYgR39SR8

You will be sorely missed, John— most of all by myself, as I had so fondly wished to finally meet you in person, albeit abroad. But life of course takes its own turns and we must accept what we...

OK, friends: the score has been sent off to all my mando-contacts around the world; the young bird has spread its wings and taken to the sky...

I also reference the website where, courtesy of...

Hi Everyone and Happy Holidays. I am still working on adding more titles--probably after the holidays. During this period, I became aware that quite a few of my original Drop Box links had become...

Hi All,

Here is a nice video of the Duo Stringendo: Annegreet Rouw and Ferdiand Binnendijk. Here they play a composition by our 'own' Victor Kioulaphides. It is titled 'Antwerp Harbor' and a work...

Here is a link to a single file with only the 11 new Cardilli tunes referenced in sheri's last post

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Hope y'all have started a wonderful holiday season! here's what's the status of the Drop Box folders.
Mandolin
602 titles
Accordion (suitable for Mando)
78 titles
Neapolitan canzone (Mando...

This is great to hear positive early returns. Well, and it may take til Christmas for this scanning project...I want to have enough of an upload to make it worth everyone's time and effort. I tell...

I'm just putting a question out there to test the waters. As some of you know, I'm a Mandolin-loving Sicilian girl, raised in California, and I've done as much as any one person can do to promote and...

Simple mandolin Duet in G major.

it is written so that the 'tune' swaps between the two mandolins for variety

https://soundcloud.com/andabouk/rococo-simplice-by-a-d-boden

Score and parts...

The music for the misc files posted by Sheri on Oct 1, and the Neopolitan Canzone, are compiled into single documents and available at the following dropbox links

Neopolitan Canzone...

Get ready, set, pluck! I'll be starting a new topic with a brand new batch of Neapolitan songs for mandolin. These new titles distinguish themselves from the ballo liscio dance tradition and deserve...

The one I heard in the Soundcloud is: Bersaglieri, that march is already in my MM book. It was a handwritten score done by someone not literate in Italian. so the spelling was Basaglieri. ...

I'm posting this here because I would expect my efforts to be most suitable for the classically-biased players.

I have now put the music which I have written for mandolins (solo, duo, trio,...

Here's the mandola part.

124500I found the guitar part and also a mandola part arranged by A Nigrelli in1999

Oh dear! it may be due to consolidation. I apologize for the inconvenience.
I'm posting links here for the MISCELLANEOUS folder. This is a collection of lesser known publishers and predecessors to...

Sheri, This link from from the 9/28 post appears to be dead

"I've added 11 new titles to the MISCELLANEOUS folder; some are from the early 1890s....