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    Re: Norman Blake is 86

    Let's have some of Norman in his prime!



    https://youtu.be/IA2CtM1B1Ak
  2. Re: "Jacob Collier reinvents the guitar"

    It's not such a big jump from cittern tunings some people use.

    For my octave mandolin I tune ADae, and in the past I have taken the top and bottom strings off an electric guitar and tuned it like...
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    Norman Blake is 86

    I just read that Norman Blake turned 86 on 10th March, and I would like to wish him well.

    I saw him play on my first trip to the USA in 1977, and have always enjoyed him ever since.

    Thanks for...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Haven't had an after breakfast tune for a wee while. This is Jimmy Shand's classic tune The Bluebell Polka. It was very popular when I was young, indeed it was a great favourite of my mother who...
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    Re: Dagger Gordon video

    Haven't had an after breakfast tune for a wee while. This is Jimmy Shand's classic tune The Bluebell Polka. It was very popular when I was young, indeed it was a great favourite of my mother who...
  6. Re: "Mandolin Players In Ireland" Social Group

    Hey Aidan,

    I just made a video of those jigs I did for you all those years ago.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjWxcbB-QBU
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Here's a set of Irish jigs played on my Collings MT.

    Sweet Biddy Daly, The Banks of Lough Gowna and Jackson's Jig. One or two bum notes but hey - there's a lot of notes!

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  8. Re: Mandolinist wins Celtic Connections 2024 Young musician prize

    Good for him.

    He's a very nice lad and this can can only help the mandolin in Scotland and everywhere else.
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    No she is from Kiltarlity. I do know the Lochaber lot though.
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    Dagger Gordon plays Ae Fond Kiss

    This is Robert Burns's famous song Ae Fond Kiss, which I was working on for Burns Night recently.

    It is played on my Stefan Sobell octave mandolin.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRrR8j58ZA
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    This is Robert Burns's famous song Ae Fond Kiss, which I was working on for Burns Night recently.

    It is played on my Stefan Sobell octave mandolin.


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  12. Re: Convince me of the value of strict DUDU picking?

    I'm not sure about the newish dogma, but I will say that the first time I heard that jigs should be played DUD DUD was here on Mandolin Cafe, by which time I had been playing jigs for years. I am...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    I actually play tenor banjo a lot, mainly for playing for dances where I find the sound really cuts through.
    However, in a session I tend to prefer to play the mandolin, and an F holed mandolin at...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    No, not really. In my experience the sound of the octave gets lost in the general hubbub more than a mandolin. It might be a bit louder than the tenor guitar but it's still in the same range. You say...
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    Re: Robin Williamson mandolin

    This is a recent Facebook home video of Robin playing 'Frosty Morning' on a very interesting looking fiddle.

    https://www.facebook.com/RobinAndBinaWilliamson/videos/1386998228586994
  16. Re: Convince me of the value of strict DUDU picking?

    Thanks Marguerite,

    Wonderfully detailed post.
  17. Re: Convince me of the value of strict DUDU picking?

    Hi Caberguy,

    I don't worry too much about strict DUDU technique, but I do think it is very important that your upstroke is strong.

    So if your teacher is insisting (rather than merely...
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    Re: Shane MacGowan has passed (NMC)

    Great
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Ha Ha,

    'They' used drones! I can assure you the film crew was extremely small - my pretty inexpensive phone was propped up against the milk container on the kitchen table.

    But thanks for the...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Hi John,

    Thanks for that.

    Yes, I always tune DGdae. Suits my music much better than C. It helps give a certain open-tuned, citterny quality to the instrument, which I like. I've always been...
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    Re: Dagger Gordon video

    Here's another early morning video which I did after breakfast today.

    It's an old Scottish air from the Simon Fraser Collection called Ruairi Dubh, also known as Roderick Dhu, the Clanalpin Chief....
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Here's another early morning video which I did after breakfast today.

    It's an old Scottish air from the Simon Fraser Collection called Ruairi Dubh, also known as Roderick Dhu, the Clanalpin Chief....
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    Re: Robin Williamson mandolin

    I would add that I did think Robin was a pretty good guitar player (listen to First Girl I Loved) and later became a good harp player.

    He could play various other things, but I never thought he...
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    Re: Robin Williamson mandolin

    Ah, The Incredible String Band.

    Some of their stuff sounds pretty dated now, but I think that Robin's songs First Girl I Loved and October Song are really great, and I actually listen to those...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    I recorded this wee video early this morning after my porridge. This is my arrangement of an old reel called The Cross Of Inverness, which I have set to a slightly different rhythm. I'm playing my...
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