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What a lovely version of a great song. Beautifully sung and played.

Thanks for posting!

I thought the video would be taken by Lake Ponchartrain but as soon as the video starting playing I recognized immediately that it was Hawaii. In any case, I enjoyed your playing and singing. Thanks...

A beautiful tune, well played & sung, on a nice-sounding Martin, Corban. Just missing the gators! :mandosmiley:

Great job Corban! I loved it!

Corbin, really great editing and playing. Really enjoyed your vocal arrangement and singing too. Interesting, tasteful and true to the song.

Great job video editing, Corbin! I really enjoyed that performance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWcJhV-j6lY

Here's the video supplied by C. Welter.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FOQdrNFQ7c

late as usual, here's Nancy's Hornpipe on Octave


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Thanks to this theard I learned a few of Norman Blake´s tunes. Here is Constitution March- I stole a lot of Don´s Video. Thanks for that!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uR08CNnmMhs

Very cool - thanks for posting! I'll have to try this out. Manzanita is one of my all-time fav bluegrass albums.

Cheers,

Rob

Thanks for posting this thread C., and thanks for your cool chord melody. I haven't listened to this tune in a very long time until I listened to your take. I've been listening to a lot of different...

steve wrote above:
"I think its the fret size. My gibby fern is a breeze, but has the tiny old style frets."

I agree.

I've found that above the 7th/8th fret, a mandolin with...

Check Marty Stuart at about 1:55 here, he goes on up about as far as he can go.

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I play up there a good deal.
As for a good mando....yes. But
My brentrup, with its stainless frets, slightly larger than my fern or ellis frets, is much harder to get a clean note. I think its the...

For bluegrass I rarely play past the 12th,,,but for jazz I go up there all the time,,it's how I get those high,"piano" type notes and sounds,,including chromatic lines and phrasing including also the...

And you have to have the extended fingerboard to get all the upper notes! Sorry you scoopers and Floridectomists.

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Virtuoso violinist Itzakh Perlman has the fattest fingers you've ever seen, and he does fine in the upper reaches. The trick is to get handy at fingers shoving each other out of the way. Of course...

Thanks for sharing this, it's always enjoyable to read something vaguely articulate about bluegrass. However, I do disagree with a couple of points. Those bands that maintain the traditional sound of...