Bet you didn't know Canon in D had more to it, did you?
Point 1) the Canon isn't meant to be played as slow as it's represented in popular media. I literally can't listen to popular versions of it any more after hearing a period-accurate performance by The Academy of Ancient Music.
Point 2) The Gigue is so beautiful, I feel like it should be a criminal offense that it's almost completely unknown in comparison, and almost never performed.
With all that said, here is my rendition of Pachelbel's Canon and Gigue in D that I made at the beginning of the lockdown (actually in C because my instruments are tuned down - but my fingers are still playing in the key of D). The music is the original, no adaptations except for (obviously) the mandolins instead of violins/continuo.
The bigger guitar-body instrument is a "guitalele" which I've re-strung as a 5-course nylon mandocello. It uses a pickup and pre-amp that I built and installed myself.
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