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    Re: Irish mandolin for beginners.

    That is debatable – some players prefer an F-style – although flat-topped (i.e not carved), teardrop-shaped* mandolins seem to be generally preferred (and are my preference) for this kind of music. ...
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    Re: The Japanese - Irish connection

    I have seen the two of them playing with Pat O'Connor and Eoin O'Sullivan at the Feakle festival several times. Mareka Naito was playing concertina very unassumingly (although very well) – I had no...
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    Re: First measure of Drowsy Maggie.

    I assume, by 'all four' you mean the two pairs of strings (D and A), not all the strings of the mandolin (a full barre in this situation seems like a waste of effort and unnecessarily restrictive). ...
  4. Re: videos and other aids for learning Swedish fiddle accompanime

    In addition to the recommendations of some excellent cittern and guitar players, I suspect there is much to learn from Swedish traditional harmony fiddle playing. In addition to single-line...
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    Re: Murphy’s Hornpipe

    Are you referring to the Fiddler's Companion link I posted above? If you scroll down the alphabetical list, there are three tunes listed as Murphy's Hornpipe – mine is the 1st one, yours is the 2nd...
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    Re: Murphy’s Hornpipe

    I've been playing this tune for 10+ years but only very recently learned its name. There's another Murphy's Hornpipe, a 4-parter in D.

    For the past few years, I've been playing these two together...
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    Re: Bouzouki tunes for Ali Beag MacLeod

    Even never having met Ali Beag (I have met you briefly a couple of times), it has something special – hard to put into words, but it somehow seems a very genuine expression of the place it comes...
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    Re: Bouzouki tunes for Ali Beag MacLeod

    Very sorry to hear that Ali Beag passed on a year ago – I haven't been keeping up. I'm due a listen to The Braes of Badentarbat (which I love).
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    Re: Valse de Jouets

    MacBook user here. It's not working for me.

    Enjoy your Christmas first!
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    Re: Persimmon mandolins?

    Since it belongs to the same genus as Ebony (Diospyros), does it have similar physical properties (hardness, density, grain)?
  11. Re: Update on "The Irish Mandolin" - and other stories

    I learned The Showman's Fancy in C, after hearing played in that key by Pat O'Connor on a compilation called Music and Song from East Clare, which I picked up on cassette in Scarriff one August. ...
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    Re: A sensational find...

    Thanks, Aidan, for the heads up – sweet music indeed. YouTube's auto-play followed it up with a video of Macdara providing beautiful accompaniment to his brother Pax's equally beautiful fiddle...
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    Re: Set of tunes by O’Carolan

    Beautifully played. It's nice to hear O'Carolan's tunes given space to breathe.
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    Re: Surviving Lockdown

    @MikeEdgerton: Don't you mean, "... your hats need matching bands"?

    We do have matching hats – they're just out of frame.
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    Re: Surviving Lockdown

    Thanks, Aidan. If I may return the compliment, I very much enjoyed your tunes and chat on the Blarney Pilgrims Podcast.
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    Re: Surviving Lockdown

    Yes, I keep six accordions at 2m intervals across my front room (which I myself find puzzling, as I live in a small terraced house that measures less than 10m in any direction, except possibly...
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    Surviving Lockdown

    Lockdown isn't all bad. Among other things, I've learned to bake bread, built a new cupboard – and formed a mandolin orchestra. We still need a bit of tightening up but here's a Finnish polska...
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    Re: The Wind That Shakes the Barley

    A nice selection (especially Micho!) but the Aoife Granville link goes back to the Chieftains.
  19. Re: La Machine and Andy Cutting (no mandolins though)

    A pair of French schottisches. The first one is La Sansonette ('The Starling') https://thesession.org/tunes/2636 , composed by Dominique Forges. The second one is very familiar to me (traditional,...
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    Re: Hornpipe rhythm

    Yes, the 3-pulse is not immediately obvious without counting it. Traditions and conventions notwithstanding, there would be a case for notating a tune like this in 3/2, since each of the beats has...
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    Re: Hornpipe rhythm

    Sorry if I didn't express myself clearly enough. I did not mean to suggest that the hornpipe in the Deb Chalmers clip was in any way reminiscent of a polska. I was referring to 3/2 hornpipes, which...
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    Re: Hornpipe rhythm

    Ah. Sorry, Tim!
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    Re: Hornpipe rhythm

    There are a handful of makers in the UK making 'pointless' fiddles. One of them, Tim Phillips (recently retired), lives near me - but I don't think this is one of his.
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    Re: Hornpipe rhythm

    Hornpipes are generally regarded as having originated in England and spread from there to the rest of Britain and Ireland (and sporadically to continental Europe). I don't hear the similarity with...
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    Re: Hornpipe rhythm

    @Aidan Crossey: No, it's not just you. The Tailor's Twist is a beautiful tune, with a beautifully fitting title - and The Showman's Fancy has a nice lightness to it. I've just listened to the John...
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