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    Re: Pricing / value of instruments

    Thanks all, I'll try that. It hasn't been played in years; I no longer play very much at all so it really should go to a good home. It's actually quite funny in that my last post here - in 2014!! -...
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    Pricing / value of instruments

    Hi ya'll - first post in a long long time, glad to see so many of the old gang still here and if this isn't an improper request or an incorrect posting can someone please help with advice?
    I have a...
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    Re: Hurdy Gurdy and Octave Mandolin

    True, but would you rather play a cigar-box version, or a Sobell equivalent, if you had a choice? Quality materials and workmanship will produce a simpler base sound that can be improved by a good...
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    Re: Irish Bouzouki vs. Greek Bouzouki

    YOU didn't. That doesn't mean that no-one did, and again I'll reinforce that, by reading the sleeve notes of the LPs I used to listen to, I was familiar with the sound of, and the name of, a cittern....
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    Re: Hurdy Gurdy and Octave Mandolin

    It's a very very old instrument, with records (written, NOT LPs!) of its' use from the 10 and 11th centuries when early versions were played by two people; one-man versions are recorded from the 14th...
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    Re: Irish Bouzouki vs. Greek Bouzouki

    Of course they did, at least cittern did, due to the availability of folk LPs from the mainland in the 1960s and 1970s. We're not as backward as all that!
    If we WERE to lose a name it's this...
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    Re: Star of County Down

    I wish I'd read that sooner as I live 3 miles from there, so could probably have got to some good local sessions with you. Hope it was worth the trip!
    For a truly local version check iTunes for...
  8. Re: Slippery Greek zoukies - a crude but workable "solution"

    No it bl***y won't!! (Photo taken around 1982) It slipped all over the place! This I think was me supporting Andy Irvine, who told me to put heavier strings on the zouk. Must have been to hold it...
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    Re: How long is a piece of string?

    It's funny but it takes about that long with me before I feel that new strings have bedded in properly; when new they can be very bright and twangy but they settle in after a while and I reckon a...
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    Re: 5 course mandola

    Yes they do / did... so to attempt a compromise I had a Fylde cittern specially made by Roger Bucknall to give me a ten-string advantage over my other eight-string instruments; it cost me more than...
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    Re: Got any St Paddy's Day Gigs Coming Up?

    I can't understand how, as a young teenager with a repertoire from about three LPs, I could play from 10am to 3am without stopping, but now over forty years on with a repertoire of hundreds of tunes...
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    Re: Bouzouki pickup

    True, most of the damage to my instruments comes from banging them off mics, and if you look at my profile photo of voice and bouzouki both miked, that's the sort of position I have to get into to...
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    Re: Bouzouki pickup

    I'm no expert so the advice I'd give is: you get what you pay for! Avoid the cheap ones; I bought one of the stick-on Piezo disc versions that attach to the body and it was complete rubbish.
    One of...
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    Re: Buying a bouzouki in Ireland - advice

    Aren't they all the same? A bouzouki is THE standard instrument, and some people will call anything a variation of the same. All others then become short scale bouzouki, shorter scale bouzouki,...
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    Re: Show your cboms!

    I've just insulated and soundproofed an old attic room above my garage to move everything noisy into; more for my peace and quiet than anyone else's. The illuminated banana came from an old antique...
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    Re: one for the Donal Lunny fans

    Oh Lord... I haven't seen those guys since about 1983... must dig out the photos. That was the first time I met Donal in the flesh.
    Now I'm going to have to dig out 'The Storm' LP again...
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    Re: Liam O'Flynn (Planxty) RIP

    I just heard the news and it has really hit me... I was given the Planxty album as a present when quite young and like many it really influenced my musical development throughout my entire life. Liam...
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    Re: Buying from craigslist

    No idea of price, but I used to have the book : "Ventriloquism for Dummies" and it wasn't a big seller...
  19. Re: New CD: "Precious Heroes" by Andy Irvine and Luke Plumb

    Bought it... but it's only had a fairly cursory listening so far, reason being I bought the Planxty "Between the Jigs and Reels - A Retrospective" with DVD and have been playing along to that...
  20. Re: New CD: "Precious Heroes" by Andy Irvine and Luke Plumb

    Strange mix on that sample; the accompaniment seems very much to the fore and almost too predominant? I'll buy it of course... the proof of the pudding will be in the (repeated) listening :)
  21. Re: Bouzouki description on shipping labels

    Try posting a Waldzither and see the Post Office employee write in large letters on the label: World Zipper.

    Just call it "musical instrument".
  22. Re: This weeks mandolin that won't get a bid or buyer

    Maybe he just drools a lot while playing?
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    Re: I'm very lucky

    I've had one (Sobell OM) for a few years now, almost took the arm off the guy who had it advertised for sale, I got there so quickly.
    The tone is amazing, you can concentrate on just playing without...
  24. Re: Recommend Some Trad. Scottish/Irish/Welsh/English Tune CDs.

    Ha ha.
    Ha ha ha.
    Ha ha.
  25. Re: Forthcoming Irish Traditional Music album

    Is that you also playing the oud on another video? Thought I was the only one using it in trad music.... the bass is superb for accompanying higher octave instruments.
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