Ondrej Sarek, who is a member here on the cafe, has written a lot of books for CGDA tenor mandola. I have not seen them all but those I have are very good.
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Ondrej Sarek, who is a member here on the cafe, has written a lot of books for CGDA tenor mandola. I have not seen them all but those I have are very good.
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Here he is on the Graham Norton show.
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Singing a tune is the best way to memorise it. Kenny Hall, who was blind and could not rely on any written material, used to make up simple lyrics to instrumental tunes to help him remember them. A...
I have one of these Russian models which I like to think of as the Kalashnikov of the mandolin world - cheap and unsophisticated but robust and hardwearing. With regard to string gauge, I have used...
Matthew Prater appears in the Godrich and Dixon discography under T C Johnson Groups. They think Johnson played guitar on The Blue Boys sides. Here is one definitely by Prater and Hayes though:...
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Blind Willie Johnson.
This one is definitely about the Spanish Flu.
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Elder Curry with Elder Charles Beck on piano. Commentators are divided as to whether this song relates to an influenza outbreak in Memphis in 1929 or is harking back to the Spanish Flu...
The Mandolin Self Help Group will be meeting on Sunday 9th February at Westbourne Park and then again on 8th March. There are generally a couple of spare instruments and you would be very welcome....
Best of luck to you for the operation - get better soon.
Ondrej Sarek, who is a member here on the café, has written several books of cgda tuned mandola/mandolin duets (both arrangements and original compositions). I have not seen them all but think the...
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Very nice playing! Must look out my copy of this book again.
These two sides were recorded on 25th October 1928, not in the 1940s. The accompaniment is described as "unknown mandolin" and I think from listening to the vocals and accompaniment it is highly...
For those who were disappointed by Scott's cruel joke here is a great live version of Dance Tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVTJz2j8UBA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRl-cm8SwD4&list=PLgXNoqV_WC-FN_JpOdK7opAj3aQw3Du9q&index=1
Here is Soldiers Joy - an old chestnut played as you have never heard it before.
I love that Clara smith track - she was a great blues singer. In addition to the mandolin and guitar there is supposed to be a kazoo backing her but it sounds more like a swanee whistle to me.
Thanks for posting this - I had never heard of Clarence Conaway before.
According to Godrich & Dixon the accompanists on the Ida Cox track were the Pruitt twins and I think this is correct as it was...
I read the thread on 17" mandola strings with interest. I have a mandola with a 19" scale length tuned cgda. What strings would folk recommend for this instrument? (It still has the original strings...
Is there a bar and, if so. opening and closing times.
If anyone wants to just play some chord melodies without struggling through complicated theory I recommend "Just for Fun - Swing Jazz Mandolin" published by Alfred. These are great arrangements of...
If we are talking tunes rather than songs "The Eight Men of Moidart" commemorates the landing of Bonnie Prince Charlie in Scotland.
Sorry you can't see them Ranald. They have all been auto-generated by YouTube here in England (how that happens I have no idea). Crawdad fades out after just a minute which maybe implies it is...
And here is "Crawdad"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfKXGRs-1zM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GL_O6nPG0Vg
Here is "Garbage Man Blues"