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    Giuseppe Pettine was one of the leading mandolinists in the United States during the first half of the twentieth century. A celebrated teacher as well as performer, Pettine also composed numerous pieces for unaccompanied mandolin that were popular at the time and remain part of the classical mandolin “canon” today. A short piece in so-called “duo style”, “Murmuring Brook” was composed in the 1890s. I perform it here on mandola in C (tuned CGDA, like the viola). The instrument is by Weber.

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    Beautiful. I like it.
    A talent for trivializin' the momentous and complicatin' the obvious.

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    "Beautiful. I like it."

    Thank you, JeffD!
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    Very impressive technique, Bob: the duo style and the fluid chromatic runs all very clean and clear. The piece has a great variety of mood and tone colors in it, not always heard in mandolin solos. Wonderful work.
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    "Very impressive technique, Bob: the duo style and the fluid chromatic runs all very clean and clear. The piece has a great variety of mood and tone colors in it, not always heard in mandolin solos. Wonderful work."

    Thank you, Jim, much appreciated!
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    Yesterday I received a comment on my YouTube video of "Murmuring Brook" from Marco Waterhouse, whose grandfather, Stefano Pettine, Jr, was Giuseppe Pettine's nephew (one of two sons of Stefano, Sr, who was Giuseppe's brother). Stefano, Jr, is in his 90s, evidently still active. Very exciting!
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    "Yesterday I received a comment on my YouTube video of "Murmuring Brook" from Marco Waterhouse, whose grandfather, Stefano Pettine, Jr, was Giuseppe Pettine's nephew (one of two sons of Stefano, Sr, who was Giuseppe's brother). Stefano, Jr, is in his 90s, evidently still active."

    Correction -- Stefano, Sr. was Mr. Waterhouse's grandfather. Stefano, Jr. is his uncle.
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    Quote Originally Posted by margora View Post
    "Yesterday I received a comment on my YouTube video of "Murmuring Brook" from Marco Waterhouse, whose grandfather, Stefano Pettine, Jr, was Giuseppe Pettine's nephew (one of two sons of Stefano, Sr, who was Giuseppe's brother). Stefano, Jr, is in his 90s, evidently still active."

    Correction -- Stefano, Sr. was Mr. Waterhouse's grandfather. Stefano, Jr. is his uncle.
    That's cool.

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    You'll, of course, be familiar with Pettine's own recording, made when he was of rather advanced age. Yours is frankly more enjoyably listenable, Robert.

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    "You'll, of course, be familiar with Pettine's own recording, made when he was of rather advanced age. Yours is frankly more enjoyably listenable, Robert."

    Thank you, Eugene!

    Re: Pettine's recordings, yes, I am familiar. I am working on an article about these for the CMSA quarterly Mandolin Journal. I also have copies of some additional pieces that he recorded at the time, but did not release.
    Robert A. Margo

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