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    Norman Blake is 86

    I just read that Norman Blake turned 86 on 10th March, and I would like to wish him well.

    I saw him play on my first trip to the USA in 1977, and have always enjoyed him ever since.

    Thanks for...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Haven't had an after breakfast tune for a wee while. This is Jimmy Shand's classic tune The Bluebell Polka. It was very popular when I was young, indeed it was a great favourite of my mother who...
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    Re: Dagger Gordon video

    Haven't had an after breakfast tune for a wee while. This is Jimmy Shand's classic tune The Bluebell Polka. It was very popular when I was young, indeed it was a great favourite of my mother who...
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    Re: Andy Statman's son has passed

    I'm sorry to hear that.
  5. Re: "Mandolin Players In Ireland" Social Group

    Yes indeed John. Just going to have some porridge just now!
  6. Re: "Mandolin Players In Ireland" Social Group

    Hey Aidan,

    I just made a video of those jigs I did for you all those years ago.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjWxcbB-QBU
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Here's a set of Irish jigs played on my Collings MT.

    Sweet Biddy Daly, The Banks of Lough Gowna and Jackson's Jig. One or two bum notes but hey - there's a lot of notes!

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  8. Re: Mandolinist wins Celtic Connections 2024 Young musician prize

    Good for him.

    He's a very nice lad and this can can only help the mandolin in Scotland and everywhere else.
  9. Re: 'Fast Car' Grammy Guitar - connection to Michael Heiden

    Ah, is he? I didn't realise. Wonderful player. I did think the electric guitar was really nice.

    I have to agree it was great to see Tracy on stage there. I thought Luke Combs was very gracious in...
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    No she is from Kiltarlity. I do know the Lochaber lot though.
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    Actually John, I was practising it to accompany Amy Henderson singing the song, which she does in the key of B, which is why I capoed on the second fret.
    Sounded nice as an instrumental though....
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    Dagger Gordon plays Ae Fond Kiss

    This is Robert Burns's famous song Ae Fond Kiss, which I was working on for Burns Night recently.

    It is played on my Stefan Sobell octave mandolin.


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCRrR8j58ZA
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    Re: post a video of yourself

    This is Robert Burns's famous song Ae Fond Kiss, which I was working on for Burns Night recently.

    It is played on my Stefan Sobell octave mandolin.


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  14. Re: Is Galar Cráite an Grá (True Love is a Tormenting Pain)

    Really nice, Colin. That instrument has a very rich sound.

    You are doing some hammer-on things that sound very effective.
  15. Re: NMC Muireann Bradley Irish blues prodigy

    She has just had a major success with her appearance on Jools Holland's Hogmanay show on BBC when she stole the show and got a standing ovation. Everybody's talking about her. I love her singing.

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    Re: Swarb on Mandolin

    This is a great track. Grey daylight/The Hawk/ £10 fiddle

    https://open.spotify.com/track/3g4cBFQNMZlNrQHWe96T0y
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    Re: New Tom Kimber video

    I think that sounds really great.

    Out of interest, do you make 10 string mandolins these days?
  18. Re: Convince me of the value of strict DUDU picking?

    I'm not sure about the newish dogma, but I will say that the first time I heard that jigs should be played DUD DUD was here on Mandolin Cafe, by which time I had been playing jigs for years. I am...
  19. Re: Convince me of the value of strict DUDU picking?

    Wise words, I would say.
  20. Re: Sharon Gilchrist playing Jerusalem Ridge on the Karasik Lloyd

    Sharon is one of my favourite players.

    I think this is beautiful. I love the speed, the tone, everything about really. Thanks for posting.
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    I actually play tenor banjo a lot, mainly for playing for dances where I find the sound really cuts through.
    However, in a session I tend to prefer to play the mandolin, and an F holed mandolin at...
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    Re: What's GDAE and audible in a session?

    No, not really. In my experience the sound of the octave gets lost in the general hubbub more than a mandolin. It might be a bit louder than the tenor guitar but it's still in the same range. You say...
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    Re: Overthinking tone

    Well put.
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    Re: Robin Williamson mandolin

    This is a recent Facebook home video of Robin playing 'Frosty Morning' on a very interesting looking fiddle.

    https://www.facebook.com/RobinAndBinaWilliamson/videos/1386998228586994
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    Re: Using a capo with a mandolin?

    "I was working up an arrangement for mandolin for the fiddle tune Big John McNeil, and it’s typically in the key of A major. Playing it on the fiddle seems reasonable, but the stretch for the first...
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