My farewell to the mandolin

[Peter Hackman]

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[mandolooter]

well I liked what I heard...don't do nothing rash like send me your mandolins....ok, go ahead!
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[cooper4205]

don't give it up, I really enjoyed your playing on Watson's Blues. Good stuff1

[Peter Hackman]

don't give it up, I really enjoyed your playing on Watson's Blues. Good stuff1
Thanks.

The recordings are still on my website. The most recent ones have titles beginning with W, plus the New Mandolin Schottische.

http://www.huthyfs.com/music/musindex.html

I can hear little things happening with regard to timing and coordination, and not getting quite the tone I like (partly an action problem I believe); so I realize that in the future I would have to work very hard to keep it up. I could probably spend my time better.
As I have been playing the guitar for almost all of 50 years, with only a one-year hiatus over 30 years ago, it's of a much higher standard, as I believe the guitar solo on Watson (and perhaps the rockabilly figures in the last chorus)
indicates. However that piece goes out of tune somewhere; I haven't been able to determine the trouble and I can't detect it in the concluding unison phrase.

I will probably keep the mandolin for purposes of composition.

[mandolooter]

That "Lonesome bus" song is way cool!

[Peter Hackman]

Part II

I arranged and recorded these tunes as I will not be able to play them in a year or so.
The last two tunes are songs that I've never played on mandolin before.

Min Soldat (My Soldier) was written by Nils Perne in 1940, and recorded by
Ulla Billquist the same year. Perne used the pseudonym "Jokern",
the joker, as in a deck of cards.
It was recorded the next year by the Andrews Sisters under the title "The Shrine of St. Cecilia".
The key is Eb.


Rest and Be Thankful was written in the summer of 2005. It's the only piece
I've conceived for solo mandolin.
It is firmly in the key of D. It ends with 2 min of silence,
don't know why.


Tårar som försvårar was written on the 5th of February, 1982.
It used to have a set of absurd lyrics that I wrote the next day.
The key is C. I'm very fond of this tune.



Bebop Schottische, in the key of F,
was completed in August 1980.
The title derives from some of the chord changes.
It's spliced from four takes as the mandolin kept going out of tune,
a constant problem with my Collings.



The files are
http://www.huthyfs.com/music/soldat.mp3
http://www.huthyfs.com/music/rest.mp3
http://www.huthyfs.com/music/tears.mp3
http://www.huthyfs.com/music/bebop.mp3


Many more songs can be found at http://www.huthyfs.com/music/musindex