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Post by slasher on Feb 27, 2017 13:35:46 GMT
I had a Moon 0003w for a few years, a very nice instrument. Lilly Castagnari has a big brother -- Tommy. Tommy is a two reed instrument with a swithchable third reed on the treble end. I enjoy playing mine, it can be played very LOUD!
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Post by slasher on Feb 22, 2017 14:10:24 GMT
There is a chap near me who carts a large brass bass (Eb I think) round on a bicyle and trailer. It keeps the centre of gravity low.
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Post by slasher on Feb 22, 2017 14:05:08 GMT
Hope things went well Leo. When I saw the thread title I immediately thought "Folk" not "effing".
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Post by slasher on Feb 22, 2017 14:00:24 GMT
Is this a "Golden Age" for lower priced guitars? I don't like to use the word "cheap" as there is an implication of low quality that goes with it but many lower priced intruments really are very good these days. 40/50 years ago if you bought a cheap guitar you very often got a poor instrument. Great quality improvements seem to have been made at the lower end of the market
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Post by slasher on Feb 22, 2017 13:49:02 GMT
Interesting! I played at a pub session on Monday last, there were eleven players, some multi instrumentalists, with guitars, banjos, fiddles,uke, whistle and accordion. On such occasions the clip-on tuner is a great asset as it enables everyone to get pretty well in tune and stay pretty well in tune easily and quickly. Perhaps not perfect but fairly close. A pet hate of mine is the performer who spends overlong searching for the perfect "in tune" sound without ever apparently finding it. At a concert a few years ago I even started timing the amount of time the performer spent tuning as quite a few of the audience commented (and rolled eyes). It seems we paid £5 to hear him tune as it was a £20 concert. Quite a few "never agains" were heard on the way out, self included.
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Post by slasher on Dec 12, 2016 13:54:41 GMT
Whilst admiring the skilled artwork in producing fancy inlays I prefer plain. just dots on the edge would be my choice. i really don't like big blocks of MOP or elaborate Tree of Life inlays. It is however all personal preferences. What suits you is Right.
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Post by slasher on Nov 30, 2016 15:41:56 GMT
Small box containing picks and a list of songs, Intellitune clip-on, G7th capo, spare set Elixirs 12-53. (Boring!)
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Post by slasher on Nov 16, 2016 14:34:39 GMT
Sounds like a great show. I'm with you on big venues, not too keen. Paul Simon does not seem to have been considered to be as 'cool' as Dylan or Cohen(RIP) but is their more accessible equal and one of the 'Greats' (IMO).
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Post by slasher on Nov 10, 2016 14:37:02 GMT
I usually take my Fylde to the sessions I attend. Can't see much point in having it if it does'nt get used "in anger". Played it in a band in August this year at a BBQ event at a caravan site. It was under cover and micced-up. Someone else turned a stand round and the pointy end smacked into the soundboard---nice new 'ding'. My bandmate was mortified, I decided that to shrug it off was the best course of action. Usually my Stanford drop dread gets played outside as no more than £262.50 damage can be done to it!
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Post by slasher on Nov 2, 2016 13:53:58 GMT
Wow! What a great night that must have been, and well deserved.
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Post by slasher on Oct 20, 2016 13:16:45 GMT
All the events in my area are Singarounds or tune-only sessions. A couple of them call themselves folk clubs but are not really as they follow the 'round the room' format, mainly songs with the occasional tune and never a booked guest. There are four sessions that are mainly tunes:- Irish, Blues, Bluegrass and Non-Irish. On the whole they are welcoming and a couple of them have quite a young age attendance which is encouraging. The folk club I used to attend in the sixties was a club, you joined and had a membership card which gave you slightly cheaper entrance on booked guest nights. In those pre internet days it also had a considerable library of song books, tune books and teach youself books that were mainly borrowed by the younger club members.
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Post by slasher on Oct 18, 2016 13:52:51 GMT
I remember some years ago reading of a scriptwriter who used names from the football club he supported, so this sort of thing is not unknown. Unfortunately I can't remember the which programme it was, but I think the club was Norwich City. People using real names randomly chosen from their hobby seems a good, fun idea.
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Post by slasher on Oct 16, 2016 19:12:03 GMT
Oh dear! I'm sorry that my comment early in this thread have perhaps sent it down a different route, but I am of the firm belief that unless you learn a song then you can't interpret it as well as someone who has learnt it. At the folk clubs I attended in the 60's and 70's absolutely nobody sang from word sheets. Same as you wouln't join your local Am Dram group for their annual Shakespeare production, dress in your doublet and hose and walk around the stage reading from a script. I think that Folk Clubs have disappeared in many areas simply as a matter of fashion. Folk was very trendy in the "folk boom" of the late 50's,60's and 70's with the likes of The Dubliners, Dylan and others in the Charts and folk acts such as The Spinners having TV series. Though there does seem to be a resurgence recently I can't see that level of popularity returning. It seems to me that some want to take part without having to bother putting in much effort. There was a problem on the Irish music scene about 15-20 years ago when people seemed to think that turning up and bashing a bodhran at the session was acceptable, short shrift was given.
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Post by slasher on Oct 8, 2016 19:03:32 GMT
There are no folk clubs by the old definition in my area. By that I mean a mixture of residents/locals nights and some booked guest nights. There are lots of sessions and amusingly the only amplified one calls itself "Acoustic" though the last time I went (the very last..) there were keyboards, Fender strat and bass. At the session I MC I turned away an amplifier toting performer last month. The venue has good acoustics and a well mannered audience so amps are not required. There are more sessions than there ever were Folk Clubs round here only saturday night does not seem to have one. The amplified one is about 15 miles away, all the really local nights are acoustic. One of the sessions is fairly well supported by young people the rest are largely middle aged and older, so when they go so will the events. Music stands and ipads---arrgh!
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Post by slasher on Sept 10, 2016 11:55:31 GMT
Well Andy you must be one of those who gets it right by thinking through and working at your songs, so many don't. It is a funny world though in that you can spend hours and hours on a song and it still turns out badly yet there are tales of great songs written in a quarter of an hour. I would never ever discourage anyone from having a go at songwriting. It is the 'being ruthless' with your own work that is the hard bit. Paul Macartney was once being praised by an interviewer regarding the large number of great songs he and Lennon produced. He replied to the effect "You should have seen the even greater number we junked as they were rubbish".
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