That is debatable – some players prefer an F-style – although flat-topped (i.e not carved), teardrop-shaped* mandolins seem to be generally preferred (and are my preference) for this kind of music. ...
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That is debatable – some players prefer an F-style – although flat-topped (i.e not carved), teardrop-shaped* mandolins seem to be generally preferred (and are my preference) for this kind of music. ...
I have seen the two of them playing with Pat O'Connor and Eoin O'Sullivan at the Feakle festival several times. Mareka Naito was playing concertina very unassumingly (although very well) – I had no...
I assume, by 'all four' you mean the two pairs of strings (D and A), not all the strings of the mandolin (a full barre in this situation seems like a waste of effort and unnecessarily restrictive). ...
In addition to the recommendations of some excellent cittern and guitar players, I suspect there is much to learn from Swedish traditional harmony fiddle playing. In addition to single-line...
Are you referring to the Fiddler's Companion link I posted above? If you scroll down the alphabetical list, there are three tunes listed as Murphy's Hornpipe – mine is the 1st one, yours is the 2nd...
I've been playing this tune for 10+ years but only very recently learned its name. There's another Murphy's Hornpipe, a 4-parter in D.
For the past few years, I've been playing these two together...
Even never having met Ali Beag (I have met you briefly a couple of times), it has something special – hard to put into words, but it somehow seems a very genuine expression of the place it comes...
Very sorry to hear that Ali Beag passed on a year ago – I haven't been keeping up. I'm due a listen to The Braes of Badentarbat (which I love).
MacBook user here. It's not working for me.
Enjoy your Christmas first!
Since it belongs to the same genus as Ebony (Diospyros), does it have similar physical properties (hardness, density, grain)?
I learned The Showman's Fancy in C, after hearing played in that key by Pat O'Connor on a compilation called Music and Song from East Clare, which I picked up on cassette in Scarriff one August. ...
Thanks, Aidan, for the heads up – sweet music indeed. YouTube's auto-play followed it up with a video of Macdara providing beautiful accompaniment to his brother Pax's equally beautiful fiddle...
Beautifully played. It's nice to hear O'Carolan's tunes given space to breathe.
@MikeEdgerton: Don't you mean, "... your hats need matching bands"?
We do have matching hats – they're just out of frame.
Thanks, Aidan. If I may return the compliment, I very much enjoyed your tunes and chat on the Blarney Pilgrims Podcast.
Yes, I keep six accordions at 2m intervals across my front room (which I myself find puzzling, as I live in a small terraced house that measures less than 10m in any direction, except possibly...
Lockdown isn't all bad. Among other things, I've learned to bake bread, built a new cupboard – and formed a mandolin orchestra. We still need a bit of tightening up but here's a Finnish polska...
A nice selection (especially Micho!) but the Aoife Granville link goes back to the Chieftains.
A pair of French schottisches. The first one is La Sansonette ('The Starling') https://thesession.org/tunes/2636 , composed by Dominique Forges. The second one is very familiar to me (traditional,...
Yes, the 3-pulse is not immediately obvious without counting it. Traditions and conventions notwithstanding, there would be a case for notating a tune like this in 3/2, since each of the beats has...
Sorry if I didn't express myself clearly enough. I did not mean to suggest that the hornpipe in the Deb Chalmers clip was in any way reminiscent of a polska. I was referring to 3/2 hornpipes, which...
Ah. Sorry, Tim!
There are a handful of makers in the UK making 'pointless' fiddles. One of them, Tim Phillips (recently retired), lives near me - but I don't think this is one of his.
Hornpipes are generally regarded as having originated in England and spread from there to the rest of Britain and Ireland (and sporadically to continental Europe). I don't hear the similarity with...
@Aidan Crossey: No, it's not just you. The Tailor's Twist is a beautiful tune, with a beautifully fitting title - and The Showman's Fancy has a nice lightness to it. I've just listened to the John...