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(by the way, Fisher's Hornpipe and Devils Dream are well established in the American tradition, the latter known as "De'il Among the Tailors" in Scotland)

Indeed Ranald, we foreigners sometimes call it "the Canadian national fiddle tune" but we still mix it with Scots and Irish tunes at the ceilidhs.

Outside of formal dances and competitions,...

May I humbly remark that, when using other languages for comparison, one should be careful not to confuse grammatical and natural gender; they are not necessarily identical. A number of grammatically...

Ever since the removal of the fretboard extension, mine's been confused.

I have that book, "The Scottish Violinist" which is in fact a book of selected JSS compositions from several of his collections, and some of his variations on tunes like "East Neuk of Fife".
It's a...

In one big island: England, Scotland, Wales
In a separate big island: Ireland (the Republic, and the 6 counties north)
My understanding is: Great Britain is England, Scotland Wales
The United...

"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...

Scotland is a part of Great Britain.

Funny you suggest that - I'd do the reverse, since the next section begins in the upper range, and the top line of the ending puts one in position for that, whereas the bottom line sets one up for...

Hear it played here by Dave Swarbrick at around 2:26/


https://youtu.be/1upYyh4J7R4?si=zkVEnhC9xYmmSCIL

It’s now in second edition 1 jan 2013.

Same tune here: https://abcnotation.com/tunePage?a=tunearch.org/wiki/Pittengardner%27s_Rant.no-ext/0001
Good luck! :)

Ha! Yeah it is from this collection: https://www.cranfordpub.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=CPOS&Product_Code=SV-b&Category_Code=S

There is no information about the original...

In the past I’ve written out tunes like this (for myself) but it was just a shorthand way of getting more variations, or various harmonised riffs onto just the one page. This may have been a factor,...

Thanks, Ranald!

www.shopgoodwill.com

SGW is the cool kids shorthand for ‘shop goodwill’.

Great stuff! Another lamp maker!

I make lamps from all sorts of found objects. Musical instruments I’ve used include a guitar neck, a fiddle, a clarinet and a ukulele body.
https://billpaine.com...

https://youtu.be/mEoz2N5uA6Q?feature=shared

I was going through a few boxes of LPs that I hadn’t looked at for a few decades, and found a real jewel - Back To Back, by Jethro Burns and Tiny Moore. It was unopened for some reason. What an...

For whatever reason, this song popped into my head last night, so I decided to work up a simple little solo arrangement of it on my mandola this morning. As absolutely gorgeous as this melody is, it...

Agreed, exactly, these question’s are so complex and our political vocabulary so poor* that it’s not worth talking about them during a session.
:mandosmiley: :mandosmiley: :mandosmiley:...

That is a classic choice. There's also the Felix Mendelssohn's "Wedding March" in C major which would be a good option for the recessional.

Also other option would be the trumpet tunes or...

In November 1970,I saw,for the first time,a mandolin being played.The players were Rose Simpson and Robin Williamson.The ISB were performing at the Armadillo World Headquarters in AustinTexas.My love...

If you can do this you will be accepted as one of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkAydkoI9K8&t=25s

HI Folks! Here's a Dylan classic. Thanks for the Listen!!:mandosmiley::mandosmiley:~o)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cywZot7KgW8