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- Fri Mar 04, 2011 1:51 pm
- Forum: City Guide: Sessions, Concerts, Events
- Topic: USA, Maryland, Bethesda
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6959
Re: USA, Maryland, Bethesda
Session is defunct as of Jan 2011.
- Tue Apr 28, 2009 7:07 am
- Forum: Free Reed Instruments: Squeezeboxes and Harmonicas.
- Topic: tilting the box away from you?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2563
Re: tilting the box away from you?
If you play using one strap, tilitng the box forward lets you brace the lower front corner of the box against the outside of your thigh. I also find it puts my right arm in a more comfortable position.
- Fri Apr 17, 2009 1:24 pm
- Forum: Traditional String Instruments
- Topic: Cuts, taps and rolls on mandolin
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2051
Re: Cuts, taps and rolls on mandolin
I think the key to doing rolls on the mando is to pick the last note. Viz: downstroke, hammer-on, pulloff back to the original note, pulloff to the open string, upstroke on the original note. Works for me. I often use a cut/left-hand-pizzicato to articulate the middle note of a triplet. It sounds ni...
- Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:12 am
- Forum: The Chiff and Fipple Poststructural Pub
- Topic: Worst song ever, YouTube Edition
- Replies: 117
- Views: 8697
Re: Worst song ever, YouTube Edition
I'll see you and raise you. Here's "Hoogie Boogie Land," by the legendary Fort Worth, Texas band Complete.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukjnrXTTvPY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukjnrXTTvPY
- Tue Mar 24, 2009 5:21 pm
- Forum: Free Reed Instruments: Squeezeboxes and Harmonicas.
- Topic: On the fence
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7816
Re: On the fence
I see what you are saying, but I don't think that's a good analogy. My kids (like thousands of others around here) are growing up in a household where English and French are both spoken. At some point they will probably choose to identify more strongly with one language than the other, but they are...
- Tue Mar 24, 2009 2:42 pm
- Forum: Free Reed Instruments: Squeezeboxes and Harmonicas.
- Topic: On the fence
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7816
Re: On the fence
Well, I don't have a problem playing many musical instruments (I play Irish flute, guitar, mandolin, bouzouki, and button accordion). But the C#/D and B/C really are the same instrument played two different ways, each calling on a different vocabulary of ornamentation/variations/gestures, and neithe...
- Mon Mar 23, 2009 7:41 am
- Forum: Irish Traditional Music Forum
- Topic: Snare drum in ceili bands
- Replies: 26
- Views: 8615
Re: Snare drum in ceili bands
So you just have to ask yourself which side you'd rather be on.talasiga wrote:For some inexplicable reason I associate
snare drums with INVASION
and
bodhran with the down trodden.
- Tue Mar 17, 2009 7:45 am
- Forum: Free Reed Instruments: Squeezeboxes and Harmonicas.
- Topic: Bellows Repair Tape
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2842
Re: Bellows Repair Tape
The House of Musical Traditions carries bellows tape in different colors. The catch is that the tape is essentially a long strip of metalized textured fabric with no adhesive. You have to spread white glue evenly on a board, press your tape into it, then apply the tape to the bellows. My Hohner's be...
- Tue Mar 10, 2009 8:03 am
- Forum: Traditional String Instruments
- Topic: Bass guitar...
- Replies: 11
- Views: 3679
Re: Bass guitar...
I got my Japanese-made Squier P-bass when the Fender Squier line first appeared around 1984, and remember being astounded at how nice an instrument it was for the price. I see the newer non-Japanese Squiers still get high marks. My only mod was to replace the tailpiece with a genuine, heavier Fende...
- Tue Mar 03, 2009 1:07 pm
- Forum: Free Reed Instruments: Squeezeboxes and Harmonicas.
- Topic: Choosing a box.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4532
Re: Choosing a box.
Why do you say the PA isn't a great instrument for Irish music? It's not a popular instrument, fair enough, but what in your opinion makes it unsuitable?
- Tue Mar 03, 2009 11:00 am
- Forum: Free Reed Instruments: Squeezeboxes and Harmonicas.
- Topic: Choosing a box.
- Replies: 10
- Views: 4532
Re: Choosing a box.
Concertina & "irish" box with two rows and eight bass chords are cool, but they're not chromatic, am I right? Nope, they're fully chromatic. There are some factors that make certain keys a little challenging on some instruments -- e.g., playing in A on the B/C box sometimes makes me t...
- Thu Feb 26, 2009 10:07 am
- Forum: Free Reed Instruments: Squeezeboxes and Harmonicas.
- Topic: Anticipation
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2596
Re: Anticipation
Nearly? You mean you're at work? And your new concertina is going to be sitting there on your doorstep waiting for you to get home? Good lord, man, it could be there RIGHT NOW. What on earth are you thinking? Clearly you're not well. Take the rest of the day off.
- Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:51 am
- Forum: Free Reed Instruments: Squeezeboxes and Harmonicas.
- Topic: On the fence
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7816
Re: On the fence
Seriously though, who cares? They're the same instrument but for a couple of sharps. A pretty dull, limited and mechanical instrument, unremittingly and excruciatingly equal-tempered, albeit with a few redeeming features. The point is if you get really good on the thing, the system doesn't matter. ...
- Tue Feb 24, 2009 2:38 pm
- Forum: Free Reed Instruments: Squeezeboxes and Harmonicas.
- Topic: On the fence
- Replies: 20
- Views: 7816
On the fence
I played B/C accordion for four years. Then I switched to C#/D and played that for four years. Nowadays I'm picking up the B/C again, and I'm in this strange state of mind where I really don't know which system I want to concentrate on. Every time I pick up one box or the other I find myself thinkin...
- Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:30 pm
- Forum: Traditional String Instruments
- Topic: My Les Paul for Your Octave Mandolin
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3632
Re: My Les Paul for Your Octave Mandolin
1981-1983 Japanese Fender Strats (copies of vintage instruments although genuine Fenders) blow Custom Shop recreations away and even mid 80s Squiers are better than American made Fenders since the 60s if what you want is that vintage sound. Just to pull the discussion further off topic: have you se...