Sephardic Folk Song on Cittern / Octave Mandola

[scifi]

Our new video with a sephardic folk song. We hope you like it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8mSK--7mZI

[Mark Levesque]

Beautiful performance! Thank you for sharing.

[DougC]

Love this group.
Got to love the name too. There must be a good story behind it. My German is not good enough to find out. Anyone know about the name? It must be a pun. Right?

[Denman John]

Way cool!

Thanks for sharing!
John

[Shelagh Moore]

Excellent!

[scifi]

Love this group.
Got to love the name too. There must be a good story behind it. My German is not good enough to find out. Anyone know about the name? It must be a pun. Right?

The story behind the name a little embarrassing.
We had need a provisional name for our band for our first little gig a couple of years ago. And we had a little cat which name is "Schnecke" (snail in English) and it has a very short tail. In German Short Tailed Snail is "Kurzschwanzschnecke" but our former American fiddle player could not pronounce that so we translated it to "Short Tailed Snails". And then one thing lead to another and we have never managed to change the name anymore. ;-)

Thank very much you all for you positive comments :-)
That is very nice.

[Bertram Henze]

In German Short Tailed Snail is "Kurzschwanzschnecke" but our former American fiddle player could not pronounce that

Can't understand what's so difficult about that
Now Kurzschwanzschneckenhaustürgriffpoliturflaschenver schluss, that would be another story...

P.S. I just saw that the forum software seems to insert a blank near the end of that word, out of sheer desperation, apparently

[Martin Jonas]

Can't understand what's so difficult about that
Now Kurzschwanzschneckenhaustürgriffpoliturflaschenver schluss, that would be another story...

P.S. I just saw that the forum software seems to insert a blank near the end of that word, out of sheer desperation, apparently

Or even Kurzschwanzschneckenhaustürgriffpoliturflaschenver schlussfabrikbesitzer...

There's a reason why the game "Ghost" doesn't work in German.

Great song, and great video, in any case! I really like your repertoire and your playing style.

Martin
PS: And yes, the forum software is incompatible with German word lengths.

[John Kelly]

Great song and performance! Love the rhythms!

[scifi]

Great song and performance! Love the rhythms!

Thank you :-)

[Jesse Harmon]

I loved listening to that, and please don't ever think about changing the name, it is perfect.

[rubydubyr]

just beautiful!