Let's have some of Norman in his prime!
https://youtu.be/IA2CtM1B1Ak
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Let's have some of Norman in his prime!
https://youtu.be/IA2CtM1B1Ak
It's not such a big jump from cittern tunings some people use.
For my octave mandolin I tune ADae, and in the past I have taken the top and bottom strings off an electric guitar and tuned it like...
I just read that Norman Blake turned 86 on 10th March, and I would like to wish him well.
I saw him play on my first trip to the USA in 1977, and have always enjoyed him ever since.
Thanks for...
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...
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...
I'm sorry to hear that.
Yes indeed John. Just going to have some porridge just now!
Hey Aidan,
I just made a video of those jigs I did for you all those years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjWxcbB-QBU
Here's a set of Irish jigs played on my Collings MT.
Sweet Biddy Daly, The Banks of Lough Gowna and Jackson's Jig. One or two bum notes but hey - there's a lot of notes!
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Good for him.
He's a very nice lad and this can can only help the mandolin in Scotland and everywhere else.
Ah, is he? I didn't realise. Wonderful player. I did think the electric guitar was really nice.
I have to agree it was great to see Tracy on stage there. I thought Luke Combs was very gracious in...
No she is from Kiltarlity. I do know the Lochaber lot though.
Actually John, I was practising it to accompany Amy Henderson singing the song, which she does in the key of B, which is why I capoed on the second fret.
Sounded nice as an instrumental though....
This is Robert Burns's famous song Ae Fond Kiss, which I was working on for Burns Night recently.
It is played on my Stefan Sobell octave mandolin.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRrR8j58ZA
This is Robert Burns's famous song Ae Fond Kiss, which I was working on for Burns Night recently.
It is played on my Stefan Sobell octave mandolin.
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Really nice, Colin. That instrument has a very rich sound.
You are doing some hammer-on things that sound very effective.
She has just had a major success with her appearance on Jools Holland's Hogmanay show on BBC when she stole the show and got a standing ovation. Everybody's talking about her. I love her singing.
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This is a great track. Grey daylight/The Hawk/ £10 fiddle
https://open.spotify.com/track/3g4cBFQNMZlNrQHWe96T0y
I think that sounds really great.
Out of interest, do you make 10 string mandolins these days?
I'm not sure about the newish dogma, but I will say that the first time I heard that jigs should be played DUD DUD was here on Mandolin Cafe, by which time I had been playing jigs for years. I am...
Wise words, I would say.
Sharon is one of my favourite players.
I think this is beautiful. I love the speed, the tone, everything about really. Thanks for posting.
I actually play tenor banjo a lot, mainly for playing for dances where I find the sound really cuts through.
However, in a session I tend to prefer to play the mandolin, and an F holed mandolin at...
No, not really. In my experience the sound of the octave gets lost in the general hubbub more than a mandolin. It might be a bit louder than the tenor guitar but it's still in the same range. You say...
Well put.