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Lovely tune, lovely playing, thanks! Got my head and feet bouncing along!

I've talked to a number of excellent musicians (mostly fiddlers) about how they learned to play the tunes in "the olden days" before YouTube and without naming names I've gotten quite an array of...

I'm not good enough.
I'm too good.
I don't know enough of their repertoire.
They don't know my repertoire.
They don't play enough obscure tunes.
They play too many obscure tunes.
The acoustics...

They called me 12 years younger than my true age. I think what's happening is that the MeTV people underestimated just how wide some of our musical tastes flow, especially the baby boomers. While...

I had a bad habit of squinching up my face whenever I made a mistake. It wasn't a tic so much as my nose wrinkled up as if the clunker note smelled like rotten eggs or something.

In order to...

FatBear, I think most of your questions have been answered but I just wanted to encourage you to invite a small group of people over like you mentioned and also emphasize what Tobin said about...

Thanks so much Jill! I love the stories that go with the tunes and the recordings are awesome! The site is user friendly too; the soundfiles are easy to download and clicking on the notation goes to...

Channukah Claus left this under the menorah:

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We're having lots of fun playing through the tunes. He left a toaster too but it's not as much fun.

I remember way back when I started on fiddle again after decades of not playing I met up with a great group of oldtime players who invited me to their weekly jam. Most of the tunes were nice and...

Take a look at the first post here. The poster says it's fully playable...

http://brassgoggles.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=47032.0

I like the gauge - wonder what it measures? ;)

Conor O'Neills in Ann Arbor hosts an Irish session on Sundays. A few years back I was in town with my kids for a memorial and we had dinner there. Good food, good music.
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I have no direct experience with either but I've heard that Yita and Gliga are good choices for beginner violins. Both have gotten positive reviews and are in your price range.
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Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! Here's my contribution. FYI, a "carouse" is a toast with a drink of alcoholic beverage. So, here's a toast to y'all for the Winter Season!

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A couple of my favorites are Sally in the Garden" and Rain and Snow."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Pq3RMTBlE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG4eFaWZnn0

Ha! Some good contenders for the weirdest of the musically weird here. Great thread!

I'll put myself near the bottom :crying:. I strung up an old fiddle with octave strings just for fun. It's...

Hey Raleigh!

Congratulations! You're in for a really good time! :) Playing a gig is so different from playing by your lonesome or in a jam/session and a farmer's market is an ideal spot to get...

RIP Buddy.

Have a listen to Buddy and Natalie:

http://www.celticmusiccentre.com/streaming/freeshow1.htm

Oooh, thanks for both of these! I'm a sucker for pipes. The second tune in the first video (starts at 1:20) is one of my all time favorites - The Ewie With the Crooked Horn. I've heard that it refers...

Ha! How little ye know about us of the fretless persuasion!

My main fiddle is luthier-made and a bit over the top, considering I mostly play trad Irish, Scottish, Cape Breton, etc. music. It holds...

Nice! I like Boys in the Barroom :)

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I can't help you with the tab but thanks so much for the video! Lovely version! :)


Here's one of my favorite versions of Shady Grove. I learned the bit they play at the beginning and throughout...

Why is someone posting video game music here? Is this a joke? What am I missing? :confused:

The site could use a little finesse but how can you resist stories like:



Reminds me of the Blugrass Intelligencer. :mandosmiley:

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Found this over at session.org:

http://www.thedronenews.org/

I'm embarrassed at how little it takes to make me laugh...:))

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I'm listening to it now (from Fair Warning). Beautiful tune, beautiful playing :)

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