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    I've been listening to a number of cuts by the Swiss folk metal band Eluveitie recently. In one of their music videos, they prominently feature a mandola!

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    Interesting that this is known as "metal" -- the backbeat is much more "surf."

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    and a hurdy-gurdy! Mandoviol, I got some demo cd's from a Breton harpist, Cecile Corbel, who I thought was great, but the agent couldn't drum up enough interest to put a tour together for her in the U.S. You might like her: Cecile Corbel

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    Look into Tempest. They are pretty hard folk/metal/Celtic.

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    The thing that's really cool about this band is that they sing in Gaulish. And if you're into something more hard rock from them, check out this number: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coTd0UoFyXY.
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    I was wondering what the language was. Is it something like that odd almost-dead language Romanshe? I've never heard that spoken, but had heard there were still a few crazy Swiss who wouldn;t let it die.

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    Now i have heard tempest in the past before and as with this new video posted i wouldn't go as far as using METAL in the description of their sounds. They both have some elements of rock in their sound but thats about it. I grew up listening to Black Sabbath and thats metal.

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    Folk-rock maybe. Not metal.

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    i kinda liked it...catchy tune...vampires playing a mandola..
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    Is that a mandola or an octave? Not in to that music--but it was fun to watch.

    Loved that beautiful little Common (Eurasian) Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). Very similar to the American kestrel (Falco sparverius) we have here in N. American. (however, it seems to be one bird that we are steadily losing BTW )
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    Quote Originally Posted by Bernie Daniel View Post
    Is that a mandola or an octave?
    Not sure, but that's definitely a fender washer holding the strap on. No chance of that baby falling off!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Bernie Daniel View Post
    Is that a mandola or an octave? Not in to that music--but it was fun to watch.

    Loved that beautiful little Common (Eurasian) Kestrel (Falco tinnunculus). Very similar to the American kestrel (Falco sparverius) we have here in N. American. (however, it seems to be one bird that we are steadily losing BTW )
    According to the band's bio, it's a mandola. Nonetheless, it's nifty to see members of the mando family being used in this sort of thing.

    I saw a kestrel on a dead tree once out in Nebraska. Beautiful birds.
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    Woah, check out his peghead!
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    There's no doubt that he's compensating for something with that peghead.

    And Bernie, the kestrels are declining in Connecticut, too, but Red Shoulders? Through the roof. They're all over the place! They hunt off the gable end of our roof sometimes, and the nest os only about 20 yards off the house. That's the third nesting pair in the neighborhood, 5 years ago there was only one.

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    Yes that would be the mandolin for folks who have to play in dangerous places -- you have your mandolin and your weapon with you at all times.

    In most parts of the country kestrels are declining because habitat changes (increasing forest) favors Cooper's Hawks (and Red Shoulders as well but they are not the problem).

    Cooper's hawk populations are increasing rapidly. Now a crow-size Cooper's is a very fast hawk but they can't match a robin-size Kestrel in flight speed/agility -- in a fair flight.

    But they can effectively take them by stealth and ambush -- and sadly they do. A Coop is only too willing to kill and eat a kestrel. As to Red Shoulder's, a great bird. They are friends of mine -- three colleagues of mine and I published four papers in Raptor Research on "suburban" Red Shoulders in the late 1990's.
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    The reds are very tame. They'll almost touch you when flying past when on the roof (like when you're re-roofing). I was doing hawk counts for the Connecticut Audubon Society in the late 70's when we'd count three ospreys for the entire migration season. Now you can wander down to the marsh, and see 15 or 20 whirling around, hovering , cruising, whatever.
    It'll be interesting to see how the counts change over the years. In Connecticut, when the "white guys" first got here, it was essentially 100% forested, so the rise in the Kestrel wasn't really a natural phenomenon, so is the decline natural? As long as it's not pesticide-driven, it's an interesting phenomenon.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mike Bunting View Post
    Folk-rock maybe. Not metal.
    This. Far from metal. Kinda cool though, Swiss folk rock sung in Gaulish...couldn't make it up if I tried.
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    Definitely not metal. Closer to "new wave" maybe? Interesting whatever you call it.

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    This song itself isn't really metally (the album it's off is somewhat a departure), but here's one that's definitely more metallic (though no mandola):

    "When I heard what Socrates had done on the lyre, I wished indeed even [I had done] that...but certainly I labored hard in letters!" - Cicero, "Cato the Elder on Old Age"
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