Maple Leaf Rag dedicated to Hans

[Ken Olmstead]

When I saw Dennis and Meredith on youtube play this as a duet on guitar and mandolin banjo, I knew I had to work it up! It is a bugger to get through, but it is finally to the point where I thought I could post it.

It is dedicated to Hans for building me such an amazing mandolin! :mandosmiley: This is my first posting of it in action since the first couple of videos I made when I first got it in August. I have had some finger troubles and the guitar does not bother it for whatever reason but I missed playing this baby! It has opened up a bunch, and it likes J75s more than the 74s that I am accustomed to. Took me a bit to get used to the little frets but I am pretty much moved in now and we grow closer each day!!;)

This arrangement is from Steve Kaufman’s book “Flatpicking the Rags and Polkas.” It is arranged and tabbed for guitar but I arranged it for the mandolin. My apologies to Steve, any butchering is certainly unintentional!! :))

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[woodwizard]

Sweeeeeeeeeet! Nice job

[OlderThanWillie]

As Jethro might say, "Purrrty good!!"

[Rob Fowler]

Nice, Ken!! That's a tough rag!:mandosmiley:

I was just surfing youtube videos today and came across your page again and was like..."Gee, I wonder how his Stealth is doing?...Haven't heard anything since he got it awhile ago."

Thanks for the answer...looks like it's doing pretty good!!!!

Funny!:))

[Mike Bromley]

That's one heckuva mandolin ya got there....oh, and the rag is SPECTACULAR

[grassrootphilosopher]

You surely have a nice mandolin right there!

[Dan Hoover]

very cool Ken...sounds really sweet..

[swinginmandolins]

Great job Ken! Han's certainly has built you a great mandolin!

[Randy Smith]

Ken, nice pickin"! The Stealth sounds like you'e been playing it a lot.

[Ken Olmstead]

Thanks everybody! I have been working on this bleepidy bleep piece for a little over a year, so it is nice to finally get it to something listenable! One of those pieces you could spend a life time mastering and I will!! Unfortunately, it has taken a toll on my finger so I need to recoup a bit!

The mandolin kicks behind!!

[Chris Biorkman]

The mandolin sounds really great. Nice playing too.

[Jake Wildwood]

Tres awesome!