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sbfluter wrote:Hi,
I just got a mandolin. Do I tune it like a violin?

Yes, GG-DD-aa-ee from lowest to highest. (I think on the piano, the designation would be g-d'-a'-e" or G3-D4-A4-E5)

You could tune it differently, but that's the standard.

is it time to reprise this?

Just a heads up...

Two Sean McGuire albums (At His Best and The Very Best Of) with Roger Sherlock and Josephine Keegan are available at emusic.

I've wanted to hear this music for many years; nice to see it made so easily available.

I even ran the idea past Mrs Buddhu and she said "do it" so really, I have no choice. Birthday is coming up in May. I reckon I know what I'm gonna buy myself. What a fine, supportive wife you have. When you buy your birthday present, you should think about buying a present for her as well...

Lovely indeed -- spectacular even.

Excuse my ignorance, but what's the purpose for the wide silver band on the lower middle joint of the RR?

Let your left hand do a lot of the work of keeping the whistle airborne, and as an exercise, practice deliberately releasing your whole right hand from contact with the whistle when your playing G, A or B. I was just watching one of the McGoldrick clips from the Kerrywhistles site, and was amazed a...

http://www.steelguitarinfo.com/infoindex.html

if pedal steel's too expensive or tricky, there's always lap steel:
http://www.well.com/~wellvis/steel.html

chas wrote:"One good thing about music
When it hits you feel okay" -- Bob Marley

hey chas,

i'm pretty sure the line from Trenchtown Rock is "when it hits you feel no pain".

evryting be irie,
rh

Happy Phagwa!

One of the giants of Cuban music has passed on. En Paz Descanse, Maestro. :cry: http://media.miamiherald.com/smedia/2008/03/22/09/310-Two22_Cachao_Lnew_jmb.embedded.prod_affiliate.56.JPG Legendary musician 'Cachao' dies at 89 Posted on Sat, Mar. 22, 2008 By ENRIQUE FERNANDEZ Known to the world simpl...

It should be a good weekend, God willing. I'll be celebrating the Maulid with some Sufi beloveds, and my family's closest friends in the neighborhood are Guyanese Hindus so we've been invited to Holi (they call it Phagwa) and then there'll be Easter egg hunting and kite-flying (a Guyanese Easter tra...

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1723811,00.html On Friday more than a billion Christians around the world will mark the gravest observance on their Calendar, Good Friday, the day Jesus died on the cross. (To be followed in two days by Easter Sunday, to mark his Resurrection). But unlik...

I saw an obit for Quebecois harmonica player Gabriel Labbé on HARP-L today. I'd never heard of him before but there was a link to some youtube vids of him and he was quite a fine player indeed.

RIP.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=Os6mBbBjZxM

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5lKFndi_HKw

So says an article from Jewcy.com ...