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Today I'm celebrating my old side-kick "Crusher" on its 100th birthday. We're both getting up (and hangin' in) there. I made up a new tune for us to play together, "Crusher's Cruise". I'm also...

Week 20 of the Tune A Week project, haven't run out of tunes yet! This week it's a lovely Ciarán Tourish jig called "Port Chuilinn":

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Here's week 19's tune: A reel by Colm O'Donnell - "The Road to Monalea":

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All caught up now - here's the Week 18 tune for the Tune A Week project, a lovely jig by the Kane Sisters, "An Pangur Bán" - the title is taken from an old Irish poem written by a monk about his cat....

Week 17 of the Tune A Week project - a wee bit late because I have another big project on at the moment (trying to raise money to buy an organic farm back in Ireland to open a farm animal...

Week 16 of the Tune-A-Week project, a great Paddy O'Brien reel called "Easter Sunday", well timed as Easter is just a few days away!

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Week 15 of the Tune-A-Week project, a great Niall Vallely jig called "Emmett's Hedgehog":

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Here's a mazurka for ye for Week 14 of the Tune-A-Week project. "Fowley's Mazurka", learnt from my tenor banjo teacher Angela Usher:

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It's an original tune penned by the Kane sisters so probably no counterpart to it in the Old Time repertoire. They play it in a set with another jig they wrote "An Pangur Ban", that I'm also working...

Week 13's tune is a great jig by the Kane Sisters called "Three Deer and a Hare":

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Here's a Paddy O'Brien's Hornpipe for my week 7 tune of the Tune-A-Week project, only played it once through because not much memory left on the camera:

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Week 6's tune is a reel called "Donald Blue":

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I've decided to do a Tune-A-Week project for 2019! Here is the tune for Week 1, a great wee jig called "Peter Byrne's Fancy":

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I don't know your age but I didn't take up the mandolin until I was almost 64 years young ! Never played any instrument before that and no musical talent ! Now 71 and play in a band so get that oval...

Lynne's Girouard is treasured here as are the memories of meeting Max and Laurie when they were still in New Hampshire. My only problem is that i can't go to the Music Emporium's site anymore. ...

I hope to own an oval some day. Don't know I'm old to be learning.

Sitting here at home right now enjoying my Girouard ! Working on Flowers of Edinburgh ! What a wonderful oval mandolin ! I have owned two other ovals that I had built for me but I sold one and...

Beautiful! Enjoy.

Ensemble with upgrades with Rubner Deluxe tuners. James tailpiece. EVO Gold frets. I feel it is a bargain at $2800.

I am curious. Which model of A-Oval is this? I assume from the hardware that it is either Concert or Concert Master?

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I was set to order an oval last year at this time but other things came up. Now I get a bit emotional when I see one. :)

Congratulations!
I also have an oval on order, so I enjoyed seeing the pics Max posted on his page.
I agree about the stunning looks, and I listened to a lot of clips, so I'm glad to hear you love...

Congrats and enjoy!!

Stunning yes, but the oval sound is amazing !

Girouards are simply stunning!