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"Hmm, you must not have met Bridezilla yet"
Indeed, I have not. The bride and groom are a very nice young couple.

Post # 24 lists the choices that I sent to the bride.
I met them after church...

"As the organist at our local Catholic church, these are a few of my favorite hymns:

Be Thou My Vision (I think it's an Celtic melody)
All Creatures of Our God and King - just a good tune
Jesu,...

"I am assuming from the OP that he is the only musician."
I may have a guitar player and singer, but the mandolin will be doing the heavy lifting.

"I'm curious about the taste and ethnic...

Thanks to all for your suggestions and comments !
I am glad to see that O'Carolan tunes were suggested. I really enjoy O'Carolan tunes and was considering using O'Carolan in the prelude music.
For...

I have been asked to play mandolin for a wedding at our church.
Our organist is out of town the day of the wedding and they asked if I could play.

The bride does not have any real preference of...

"I would advise anyone who has a Loar — take the thing out of the ***damn case! It is NOT a museum piece, it is an instrument. It is an instrument that needs to be played."

Thank you for posting this.
You know, strings, straps, oval hole, f hole, A style, F style... none of that is as important as kindness.

Joseph W Baker

I enjoyed Willow's Edge very much !
Thank you for posting it, Simon.

Joseph Baker

John Dowland music is wonderful stuff!
One of my favorite CDs of Dowland music is "An Englishman in New York" by Joe Brent & Alon Sariel

"Do any of y'all play in a Catholic church?"

Yes, I do.
And I mean absolutely no disrespect to any organist.
Our organist is a talented person.
The point that I was trying to make is that with...

All of this is quite true when playing with a praise band.
If you are playing with a choir and an organist, things are more structured.
Choirs and organs tend to be tied to sheet music. Everybody...

[SIZE=4]A mandolin solo can be as simple as playing the melody line out of a hymnal.
I play with the choir every Sunday. Except for prelude music on Christmas or Easter, I do not play a solo during...

How long have you been waiting?

I purchased an Irish bouzouki from Thomann two years ago.
I had a tracking number and could follow its shipping progress.
It scooted right along until it landed...

That was wonderful, indeed!

And it led me to this video:
Fernando Barroso & Luis Peixoto - Calçada da Serra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vLWLufsdPog&list=RDhznwMAeVYJU&index=6

Well, others may not approve of my suggestion...

"$2K+ (I'm in Canada, so I'm considering my dollar value here) is a stretch for something I just want to toy with...at first."
Have you...

Mr Busman hit the nail on the head in post # 2.
Buy a mandolin to play it.
Get the mandolin that you like and will enjoy.

"a decent oval hole should sell pretty easily."
Indeed. Many people,...

Well, Maybe it's just me, but I don't worry so much about speed.
I worry about playing smoothly.
Someone playing smoothly will sound faster than they are really playing.
Someone playing as fast as...

"I don't think most people would consider Star of the County Down an air."
I called Canticle of the Turning an air because the sheet music called it that.

"One of the distinguishing features of...

"it's also a 6 string MIlanese mandolin"

How is it tuned?

Joseph Baker

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"Joseph, yours looks just like this one? I found pictures of a few different styles online."157613

Yes, it does.
I have tried to post a picture of mine... I need a 12 year old to help...

"There are some notes in the pentatonic that don't harmonize with other notes that are in the same-key major scale. I thought pentatonic scales were supposed to harmonize 100% with a key scale?"
...

I do not own any expensive mandolins.
I have a Kentucky KM 180, a Kentucky KM 172, and a Suzuki bowl back KS-150.
If I could only own one, it would be the Suzuki bowl back - strictly for...

I have been playing, and enjoying, this piece since it was posted.
I gave a copy of the sheet music to our organist at church today.
As she played it she said, "Hey! This is fun!"
"Yes, indeed"...

We went over this song after Mass today.
First time through, I played the written melody line.
Verse 2 I played an octave higher.
All of the singers liked it, so that is how I am going to play it...

I don't know if it would be what you are looking for, but on Nov 22, 2014, in the Celtic, Nordic, Quebecois, European Folk Forum, a Free Book of Tunes For Winter was posted.
There's lots of good...