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Backing in Irish music can impose harmonic content on a tune that might not otherwise be apparent. If that makes any sense. . . .

One of the attractive features of Irish trad is harmonic ambiguity...

My dream instrument would be an electric bouzouki made to look like a 360 with the horns sheared off but everything else - soundhole, headstock, pickguard, toasters, etc - the same. A combination of...

Progress has been made, slowly and surely.

This saturday I had a strap button installed professionally and all. Looks original. Unfortunately the body of the zouk is soooooo light that using the...

It's pretty much a matter of loosening the strings and moving it back a bit, I presume. If there's a more technical how-to floating around in cyberspace, would anyone have a link?

that, and how do...

When my significant other returns from visiting friends (she's the photography buff)

Isn't that the truth?

:)

I think I've played it more already than some instruments I've owned for years.

This is my first CBOM/Mando family instrument. But I've played some combination of electric bass, guitar, or...

Rickenbouzouker!

http://www.soundslive.co.uk/common/showimage.asp?image=/images/RICK-50360MG.jpg

You could even do away with the horns and give it a traditional teardrop shape. If you kept the...

It's arrived, well before I was starting to get worried:)

I like it!

Now I have to find some type of strap to keep it upright so that I can actually play the darned thing.

I've played that game. My second (keeper) Irish flute was made by a great fluthier, but one with a more "old world" attitude to customer service, shall we say. Had one great phone discussion with him...

I am at home waiting for the fedex truck. The Peterson level II from Elderly. Supposed to arrive sometime today.

Had to vent.

Anyone else attending Irish Arts week in East Durham, NY?

I am going mostly for the flute classes but also signed up for the newbzouk class in the morning. It would be cool to make some...

Western music general has some important Arabic/middle eastrern influences.

Our citterns, 'zouks, mandolins, etc. all are very closely related to the Oud, the middle eastern Lute family.
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Just... not at the same time :)

This might be a weird suggestion, but start a tune that won't be known by the whole session (at your own tempo) and THEN go into the chestnut. That way, you've

1) Played a new tune, which is a...

I played mostly with Tim Binkley and Randy Candelaria, and then at the Irish session at the brewpup downtown (forgot the name. . . )

I do love Vermont - but paid the price. In he winter the...

Donal Lunny backing up GOD (Matt Molloy) playing "The Bucks of Oranmore"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS7NxJDp4zQ


Lunasa playing a set of tunes. The last tune on the track is the Bucks or...

How did the festival go?

I used to play in the Friday Night ceili with two other folks in Winston but I moved up Vermont last summer. That was a fun event to play at.

Tunes that someone will probably know in most sessions.
Hardiman the Fiddler
O'Farrell's Welcome to Limerick a.k.a. The Choice Wife
Banish Misfortune
Lilting Banshee
Blarney Pilgrim


My...