Wow. In my school one had to be self deprecating about musical instruments, or accept the social consequences. "Yea I play bassoon in the orchestra....
Two items. One is I am not sure that the back of a bowl participates in the sound generation in the same way as a carved back. So my thinking is that...
This was just like me. I also would capo 2 and drop down a string, putting me an octave below the fiddle, so I could play fiddle tunes with the same...
Enjoy. That one looks great. That is not a "reasonably priced reasonably decent" mandolin alternative, it is a great mandolin. It may be something to...
In Irish and in Old Time here in the States it seems there is a core set of tunes that everyone knows and plays. For the most part it seems that most...
The bands I am in aren't large enough or organized enough to have predefined roles. Except I am usually not the one getting the gigs. And I am often...
While there is truth here, I find that Irish Trad are not the only ones. My gosh I attended a old time jam a couple of years or so ago and it was an...