Yesterday, I read about Sheri Mignano Crawford's biography of Carlos Curti, Game of Hearts. That made me remember, that I once had ordered his mandolin method.
No.29, Maestoso seemed playable for...
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Yesterday, I read about Sheri Mignano Crawford's biography of Carlos Curti, Game of Hearts. That made me remember, that I once had ordered his mandolin method.
No.29, Maestoso seemed playable for...
That sounds very nice, Jairo. I had competely forgotten, that I also had recorded this Catalan folksong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jILig6EeVvs
This menuet can be found in the first volume of Ferdinando di Cristofaro's Methode de Mandoline. I rewrote the second mandolin as a guitar accompaniment, so fans of the Golden Age can enjoy this...
An arrangement by K.Krantz of Satie's piano piece for violin and guitar played on my German bowlback and my shortscale Torres-copy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0J9Mo_87ko
Youtube recently proposed me this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksjY-7psUVA
This tenor guitar sounds fine to my ears. There's a link to a page with more information:...
I published this in the Song-a-Week social group and I thought it might be interesting for the fans of the classical mandolin too. I made an arrangement of Enrique Granados' Valse poético op.10, no.1...
I found this video, in which Caterina Lichtenberg explains, how tremolo is executed on classical mandolin.
It's done in a sideways motion like in classical guitar, as opposed to an...
Nice music and mandolin playing, Toomas! Your flatback sounds very fine in your hands.
I miss one Estonian folk tune, though, the waltz Tõsine eesti labajalavalss.
Here's a recording by Anna Maria...
I finally found the time to practice the rest stroke and rerecord First Signs of Spring using it. The result seems to be a fuller, more mellow tone, as Classicalcomp pointed out even on the high...
There's a book by German classical mandolinist Gertrud Tröster (now Weyhofen) called Technique on eight Strings.
Two ways of using a pick are introduced:
1. The slanted pick, where on the...
In this video, you can see clearly what Tim talks about. For slow melodic playing Jeanette Mozos del Campo uses rest strokes with an angled pick, resulting in a more mellow tone. But for playing...
Thanks Scott!
So I'll chose Christian DP
Could you cange my stupid "Hossjoe" to my real name "Christian".
Thanks in advance!