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    Re: Keeping up with the Fiddlers

    Some months ago This topic came up in a conversation with Marla Fibish - an internationally known Irish mandolinist. Her suggestion: “no need to play all the notes” - just play the important ones.
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    I wasn't intending to make a video to post here, however I made a video for my Facebook friends for St. Paddy's Day. It turned out well so I put it on Youtube, and so maybe I should post it here...
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    Tam Lin

    Sadly, this is one of those tunes that is probably getting a bit tired and worn, but only because it's one of the most rocking reels ever written. If Led Zeppelin would have composed a reel, this...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Haven't had an after breakfast tune for a wee while. This is Jimmy Shand's classic tune The Bluebell Polka. It was very popular when I was young, indeed it was a great favourite of my mother who...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    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.
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    The Sleeping Tune (Gordon Duncan)

    This is my version of this beautiful Air...:mandosmiley:
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    I had a quiet moment today. I grabed my guitar and in the spirit of the moment recordet what I was feeling and thinking about:
    on earth peace, goodwill toward men

    I´ve been thinking about folks...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqwpIKRGJQ
    Here’s a video of my buddy Bruce Carveth on English Concertina and me on my Northfield Octave Mandolin playing ‘Monkey on a dog cart’ on the downtown mall...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    The porridge thread is certainly lengthening with all the talk of enzymes and other scientific things I am sure my granny had no knowledge of, and as a native Gaelic speaker the words would not have...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Hi Bertram,

    Thanks. It was (in true Scottish style) porridge and tea. I have it every day. Works for me!

    Cheers!
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    I quite often do some practise when I'm finishing my breakfast. This is a Scottish jig called The Lads O' Dunse, played on my powerful wee Collings mandolin.

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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...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    nice afterburn on the electric
  14. Re: It’s official. Going on tour is not fun. (TicketMaster etc.)

    I wouldn't be surprised if there are band members out there right now making less on a gig than some folks are paying for tickets. There's money out there, but it rarely trickles down. Not sure how...
  15. Re: Royall Triolian '29 Tenor Long Scale guitar - review

    P.S. Sorry Bertram, I didn't realize the audience here was so tough!
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    Re: Gibson launches Certified Vintage Program

    Postage stamps should be collected. Instruments should be played. Get off my lawn, Gibson. :grin:
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    Re: 2,000-year-old Vietnamese instrument

    Thank you SO much! I've wondered about that for the longest time in the back of my mind, but never thought to look it up. What a relief!

    I remember an old joke. Two cats were watching a tennis...
  18. Royall Triolian '29 Tenor Long Scale guitar - review

    Thank you everybody, especially Bertram Henze, for the inputs on a tenor resonator guitar.

    I bought the same model that Bertram plays in his videos, the Royall '29 Triolian resonator (mahogany...
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    Re: Am I Alone in This?

    Bren said, "...an Eightsome Reel or Orcadian Strip the Willow is a very forgiving thing. Athletic young women just grab me and hurl me around." I was compere at a Robert Burns event locally here...
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    Re: Physics and not-banjos

    Schrödinger’s Banjo.

    Until he is observed he both is and is not playing the banjo.
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    Re: Physics and not-banjos

    Maybe it is a superposition of a mandolin and a banjo

    (Sorry, I couldn’t resist)
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    The fairy


    I was on my way to band practice when I saw a fairy fall on the ice.
    I went over and helped her get back on her feet & she was very grateful.
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    Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer

    My goodness! The floodgates have swung open and a torrent of tittilation has washed over the land. Methinks thou all doth protest too much, and this hath the aroma of sour grapes. Couldst be thee are...
  25. Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer

    There is such a thing as an instrument for free that isn't worth the price.
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