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NJ performer/coffeehouse booker Mike Agranoff once said to me
that "a pickup is a $200 device that makes a $2000 guitar sound
like a $200 guitar." I mostly concur. The are way over-used and ...

NB We are doing a Maryland house concert on Saturday that will also be viewable online via
Concert Window: https://www.concertwindow.com/90902-orrin-star

We'll be playing the full arrangement...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJx05F9vbjc

Just once through. (A rare version of the tune with some pre-verbal vocals.)

Thanks Sean.
(btw on a piano/fiddle version on YouTube I just viewed
it says "written in 1867 by Luigi Arditi".)

Am wondering about this tune (which I'm working on for a column for
Flatpicking Guitar).

Bill is routinely credited as the composer. But it sounds to me like
an old-school waltz, and not...

Yes.

Cafe denizen John Goodin was in town this weekend playing
with his band Contratopia for some area dances.
I was doing sound for one of them, and noticed he was sporting
a new mandolin. When I...

I've got an Old Wave oval mandola that I love (and often play in solo shows).
I would second the comments about the dola sharing significant range with the
guitar—but also mention two options that...

Folks, Thanks for the appreciative thoughts. This tune was named for a recently
deceased DC-area folk figure. His widow loved it and asked me to go into a studio
and make a proper recording.
...

I wrote a second jig last month and taped it last week with a cellist who I've been playing some tunes with.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_r_QOAqXUq8

No ABC; just the tab (posted above in this thread).

Belatedly, the chords are
A part: Dm Bb C Dm Bb C Dm
B part: D - A - D - A D

Here's a mandolin tab of the tune:

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Thanks. And cool if you brought it to your session.

Orrin

ps I grew up in Kendall Park, NJ. Where/when is your session?

ps just recorded a mandolin/cittern version of this tune (in it's native key of Dm):

http://youtu.be/3ggpB1_X5Ck

I wrote this in September. It's called The Partners and I love
playing it.
(Posted an earlier solo mandola video in the CBOM area shortly
thereafter - but it was in an odd key - so wanted to do...

I used a .023 on the bottom and a .016 on the third string (which
is heavier than the .012s I use for the A).

>>Can you post the tabs in the tabs archive?

I will contact someone from the Tab Creation Dept. and look into it.

Thanks for the positive comments all.

And, yes, it's an Old Wave mandola. (Don't know how I
inverted that, except that I was thinking that it was a new jig.)

As with most tunes I've...

Written this past weekend (with an assist from insomnia).


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8LTEtmOgUA

(Recently tweaked the stringing of my dola, making the
bottom two courses octaves. It's...

Jimmy and I will be doing our annual Thanksgiving Saturday show
on November 27 in Herndon, VA. Jimmy told me that this will
be his first gig at which the new CD will be available. And (as usual)...

Here's a great dual fiddle version of 'Pipe' (along with 'Cliffs of Moher'):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBONRwNY77c

Staff cat.

I've gotten very involved with the mandola this past year. Since I perform mostly solo and duo I in
fact do treat it like a mandolin and have been enjoying it greatly.

One thing that my dola...