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Top Shelf !!! Complimenti !!! Finalmente ! Someone has gotten this music right !!! Che gioia!!! Your grandfather and mine--who played this music would be so very proud of you and the work you...

And thank you Sheri for your posting and summary of this rare piece from my grandfather's collection. Such a revealing and pivotal piece in the turn of the century Italian"Irredentist" and...

Mille Grazie!!!-- for this latest find and musical gem you are sharing with us ! I can't stress enough the importance of downloading the new links and the various publishers dropboxes to one's...

Polyphon--1914 Electric/Player Pianola with Built-in Mandolin Mechanism!

This unique type of player piano (made in Germany by Polyphon Co.)---its marketing aimed principally for the Neapolitan...

And yes---the mandolin being played by my Grandfather Luigi Giorno on Amore è Follia --Mazurka by" G. Caropresi is indeed the one featured on the cover of Sheri's book. After 100yrs this mandolin...

What a joy to see and even better to read! Really hard to put down once you start reading. A must read for all mandolinists ethnomusicolgists, and Italophiles alike! Learn about the musicians,...

Ah, Louie Prima--and Sam Butera and The Witnesses ! !!!!---What musicians and showmen!---Although my 1st love is and always will be--- our beautiful Italian instrumental "ballo liscio"---the music...

Ah, Louie Prima--and Sam Butera and The Witnesses ! !!!!---What musicians and showmen!---Although my 1st love is and always will be--- our beautiful Italian instrumental "ballo liscio"---the music...

Great question and great musical observation !
As a young guitarist I used to ask the very same thing to the older accomplished Italian guitarists here in Philadelphia. They would always laugh...

You've heard the old saying "too many cooks spoil the broth" ? Well, that certainly could apply in the case many of these marked up M1 parts with chord notations written in above the various...

PS---The faulty cellular device that I originally listened to these impeccably rendered pieces on m, did not pick-up the beautiful subtle and expressive guitar accompaniment, just the beautiful...

Great job on both of these numbers! "Complimenti"!-- For a beginner as you claim, you truly render these pieces with a lot of feeling and that Italian feeling and spirit definitely comes through !!...

Kudos to Todd Milano for going thru his family archives and finding this wonderful Mazurka Angelina---!!!
composed by his great great uncle, and to Sheri for adding it to the DeStefano dropbox. ! It...