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Post by Mike Floorstand on Aug 18, 2022 9:44:10 GMT
Love them - I think I first encountered them playing at the Barbican about 20 years ago, possibly supporting Bill Frisell? They seem to have been a bit quiet in recent years but good to see that Chris Thile's band is keeping the flame alive!
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Post by Mike Floorstand on Oct 22, 2021 22:11:58 GMT
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Post by Mike Floorstand on May 25, 2021 15:47:33 GMT
That's a shame, Ullapool is definitely on my bucket list of festivals to attend. I do have a ticket for Towersey festival carried over from last year, apparently it is still on but at a reduced size too allow for whatever social distancing etc. is deemed necessary at the time.
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Post by Mike Floorstand on Mar 16, 2021 17:55:13 GMT
Are the neck and perch pole two separate bits of wood? They should be stuck together (normally the perch pole has a round section at one end and this is glued into a hole in the heel of the neck.Once stuck together it gets pushed through a hole in the pot and the end of the perch pole fastened at the tailpiece end with a screw. I think the bracket you mention might be the neck brace which doesn't fasten anything as such, its purpose is to ensure a snug fit between the neck and pot.
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Post by Mike Floorstand on May 30, 2020 22:20:34 GMT
I still have this, currently strung as a guitar but could be converted back to mandocello fairly easily.
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Post by Mike Floorstand on May 4, 2020 12:53:24 GMT
[mention]cams [/mention] uses it and might be able to comment. I’d consider doing it but only if the production was decent. I don’t like Live stuff unless it is backed up by a proper mic recording. I’m also not going to give any money to anybody who just records on a mobile phone! Hash maybe but if an artist is looking for money they need to consider at least a little quality and post production! The folk on foot festival showed how to do it. Pre-record and publish to YouTube - you can publish at a ore-arranged time if you like! Interesting angle I hadn't really thought of that. I think personally I'd be less interested in how hifi the quality was, I'm more intrigued by the possibilities of interacting with an artist in new and different ways - the opportunity to see what happens "behind the scenes", approaches to practice, composition etc. My guess is any artist I might be interested in would have access to vaguely decent equipment anyway though.
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Post by Mike Floorstand on May 3, 2020 21:52:21 GMT
I'd be interested to anyone's thoughts on Patreon, does anyone have any subscriptions currently - any recommendations?
The concept seems to make sense at the moment e.g if you have a favourite artist, you probably pay £20 or whatever to see them once a year at your local venue, but since that isn't happening at the moment, you might subscribe say £2 per month instead to see livestreamed performances and other content on Patreon. Obviously not the same as a live gig but if you get to see/hear them more often, maybe have a chance to ask them questions etc, it would be a very different experience but still enjoyable.
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Post by Mike Floorstand on Apr 13, 2020 13:59:15 GMT
I'm nitpicking but I think he could perhaps dial down the volume on the cowboy shirt?
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Post by Mike Floorstand on Apr 13, 2020 13:13:24 GMT
Just realised you can stream YouTube on virginmedia so am watching this on the TV now. Thinking about pitching my tent in the living room to get the full folk festival experience!
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Post by Mike Floorstand on Mar 1, 2020 20:51:49 GMT
Looks like you have a more geometrically satisfying c.90 degrees from nut to barrel for the E string now, although personally I actually prefer a bit of an angle so that the string tension is pulling itself towards the barrel hole (i.e. the opposite of what you have), although I'm sure it could never unravel or pull itself out of its hole, it just feels a bit more secure that way.
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Post by Mike Floorstand on Jan 11, 2020 22:48:32 GMT
Hey Martin , That was my table, it dates to about 1820, so should be well seasoned by now! I bought it at auction quite a few years ago, but didn't have the heart to cut it up, so it has sat in pieces in my loft for about 15 years until I came to clearing the house prior to our move. It was either take it with me or cut it up, so eventually I got round to resawing it and got four sets which I gave to davewhite with all of my other wood. I'd just jet washed the patio before taking the photo, doesn't it look clean! I think the Caucasian might be from my old stash as well, glad it's all being put to good use. Colin My fave pic* so far is the drop leaf table on the spankingly clean patio! *apart from all the other pics, obvs.
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Post by Mike Floorstand on Nov 29, 2019 14:19:46 GMT
I'm in the market for a Dither & Delay Pedal.
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Post by Mike Floorstand on Sept 25, 2019 11:24:50 GMT
I think that if you have to question 'is this racist?' then, on some level, it is. I also think that asking if you should be offended if a 'dark skinned chap from Asia' pretends to be a geordie you're missing the point - as far as I'm aware Geordies have never been denied housing or work, been classed as an inferior race, had their forebearers traded as property, been beaten up , had disgusting filthy names shouted at them in the street and all other kinds of terrible experiences simply because the colour of their skin is different to the 'dark skinned chap from Asia'. Just to add that the phrase "dark-skinned chap" is itself offensive. I don't hear the word "chap" itself very often - no doubt it's more common in some UK regions, or among older generations. If I did hear it today it might be on the context of someone putting on a posh voice and jokingly highlighting British/Englishness in some way. I'd typically associate it with 1930s public-school-educated Englishmen to refer affectionately to their equals, and condescendingly to refer to those who are not their equals. Apparently the word derives from "chapman" meaning trader or customer, so no doubt the English upper classes found it amusing to adopt the word to refer to themselves. So "dark-skinned chap" could be either an attempt at irony (highlighting the non-Britishness of the person), or condescending, or both. It could be intentionally derogatory, or simply reveal subconscious prejudice, but either way it is racist.
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Post by Mike Floorstand on Sept 22, 2019 21:12:57 GMT
In theory I guess it could be done sympathetically, and with some musical/artistic integrity, but if I heard a white singer performing a song with a Caribbean accent I'd be very suspicious. The cultural predecessors - 1840s minstrelsy, 1970s B&W Minstrels, etc. - portrayed black people as ignorant, lazy, look funny, speak funny, etc. The underlying - or even explicit - message is that black people are an inferior race which therefore deserved/s enslavement, segregation, poor housing/education/health/jobs etc.
I'd be much less suspicious of someone singing (say) a sea shanty with (say) a Geordie accent - I'd assume they thought the dialect of the lyrics needed it, because they liked the accent, or even because they thought the accent is funny - because there is no comparable cultural baggage, the political relationship is not between an oppressor and oppressed.
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Post by Mike Floorstand on Jul 4, 2019 21:59:22 GMT
If God had intended us to play F chords, then why did He give us the intelligence to invent the capo?
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