Re: What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
I'm Michael Coleman's piano player for Irish, but I'm primerily a New Orleans style jazz player. I got the gig through an agent that works for one of them big record making companies. They felt like Coleman's fiddle by itself wasn't right for the project, so they brought me on. I had never heard Irish music before I arrived at the studio. Man, that Coleman sure can play a lot of notes on that fiddle... made me dizzy. We cut the record in one take.
Re: What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
Thank you Jack for that great insight - I had always wondered about that. You must be very old now but obviously are blessed with great clarity of recall.
Re: What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
I am a whistle player. I own many whistles, and play most of them (some of them I play only because I feel sorry for them). I have learnt that it is not true that the more whistles you own, the better player you'll be.
I occasionally beat a poor defenceless goat, but only on tunes that I am yet to learn the whistle fingering for. I try to refrain from beating along to tunes I am unfamilliar with.
I recently bought a flute, but it still makes me dizzy when I blow it. Working on it though.
I own a fiddle, but I've never played it. When I know ITM well enough, I'll take it up. (Another 5 years or so.)
There's a guitar in the corner, tuned to DADGAD, that I am eyeing. Not really interested in it, but I do sometimes get the urge to pick out a tune on it. Occasionally I wish I could play it so that I could put a backing track on some of the recordings I make for the slow session.
Re: What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
An "intrusment" is, by definition, a type of musical instrument that is intrusional on the well-being & enjoyment of a session. Examples of this are bodhran, spoons, djembe, maracas etc etc
Re: What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
Fiddle mostly, mandolin sometimes, and have just started playing anglo concertina... what fun!.. just played my first tunes on it at last week's session.
Re: What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
Fiddle. Some time ago I played the cello at a session a couple of times as a special request to provide a bass line from the dots, but normally I'd never let my cello see the inside of a pub unless there's a stage area specifically for the musicians.
Re: What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
Piano, harp, and violin/fiddle. Also a tiny bit of mountain and hammer dulcimers. Pennywhistle and some recorder, (though, my brother says that the recorder is not an instrument).
Re: What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
Piano, concertina and, when there isn't room for a piano, the accordion. Oh dear. Why do so many people hate the accordion? Mine isn't very loud, and I certainly don't dominate sessions with it. Is it worse than the melodoen? if so, why? In what way? Or is it just not cool? Please explain....
Re: What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
ftp, I think the reason that P.A. is so denigrated, is because it's so useful, and the Eb fekkers can't shut you out. The more limited the instrument is, the higher up the hierarchy it is, so you get something essentially useless, like a diatonic flute and it's way up there, or the U.P. which there's only a half a dozen people can actually afford and the fiddle which almost no one can play.... ( Before you get yr draws in a knot, this IS a wind-up.)
Everybody hates yr accordian because you got it all right there in one box. You don't need them,& they resent it.
What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
There's got to be an old thread on this, but might as well just ask again. What instruments do we all play?
I play play the fiddle and whistles. There's a start.
Fiddler
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by paratroopers
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Fiddle, mandolin.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by dmarie
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Flute, whistle. One of those boring tube players.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by wormdiet
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Bouzouki and guitar.
Some mandolin, too, just beginning.
Bass guitar (not in ITM), recording studio, computers and midi stuff, too.
stv
http://cdbaby.com/Culchies
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by stv culchie
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Fiddle, that's it. Usually most people have this info in their bios. If you don't, it's a good time to put it in your bio right now.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by Zina Lee
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Guitar, Mando, Fiddle
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by geoffmc
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I play the guitar at sessions and the Keyboard at The Session
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by Donough
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Mandolin, tenor banjo, harmonica. Occasional pennywhistle, rarely guitar.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by TaoCat
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80% fiddle (my grandfather's)
20% whistle
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by Greg the Piano Tuner
Re: What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
I'm Michael Coleman's piano player for Irish, but I'm primerily a New Orleans style jazz player. I got the gig through an agent that works for one of them big record making companies. They felt like Coleman's fiddle by itself wasn't right for the project, so they brought me on. I had never heard Irish music before I arrived at the studio. Man, that Coleman sure can play a lot of notes on that fiddle... made me dizzy. We cut the record in one take.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by Phantom Button
Re: What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
Thank you Jack for that great insight - I had always wondered about that. You must be very old now but obviously are blessed with great clarity of recall.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by Donough
Re: What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
I am a whistle player. I own many whistles, and play most of them (some of them I play only because I feel sorry for them). I have learnt that it is not true that the more whistles you own, the better player you'll be.
I occasionally beat a poor defenceless goat, but only on tunes that I am yet to learn the whistle fingering for. I try to refrain from beating along to tunes I am unfamilliar with.
I recently bought a flute, but it still makes me dizzy when I blow it. Working on it though.
I own a fiddle, but I've never played it. When I know ITM well enough, I'll take it up. (Another 5 years or so.)
There's a guitar in the corner, tuned to DADGAD, that I am eyeing. Not really interested in it, but I do sometimes get the urge to pick out a tune on it. Occasionally I wish I could play it so that I could put a backing track on some of the recordings I make for the slow session.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by Shrog
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Fiddle, Whistle, and Pipes..
I'm sad, my fiddle is being neglected.. Oh well, once school and poo starts again... I'll let her out more..
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by armandale
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Uilleann pipes, fiddle when coerced, occasional flute dabbler.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by Bill Reeder
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Piano accordion. (Love me, love my box.)
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by kris
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I may be missing something here....but what's an "Intrusment"????
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by mikemcdaid
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djembe, maracas and stetoscope.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by Janek
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Something to do with an intrusion?
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by dafydd
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Stethoscope.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by dafydd
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An "intrusment" is, by definition, a type of musical instrument that is intrusional on the well-being & enjoyment of a session. Examples of this are bodhran, spoons, djembe, maracas etc etc
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by On Sabbatical
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Damn, you beat me dafydd!
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by On Sabbatical
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Trombone, trumpet, tuba are also good intrusments
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by Cath
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fiddle, whistle, harp, flute.
in that order of preference.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by act
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tenor banjo, guitar, mandolin, whistle
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by Gorgash
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fiddle
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by snorre
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Bouzouki and guitar. Acoustic bass guitar and bowed psaltery for Christmas tunes only.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by rob zouk
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Guitar, Banjo, Mandolin and learning Uilleann pipes, after that, hunting horn, pan and wooden spoon and barometer!
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by halfirish
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Guitar, harmonica, whistle, button accordion.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by AlBrown
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Mostly voice, but also fiddle, bodhrán, and most recently wire-strung harp
Actually classical background though, so there are a few others I play too.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by tumeltyni
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fiddle mostly, but the odd tune on the tin whistle and i managed a tune on the concertina last week!!!!! i'm so proud!
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by siobhánmc
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I'm not sayin'...
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by Hanley
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flute, whistle, concertina.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by daiv
Re: What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
Fiddle mainly,
a lot of mandoilin recently,
and when I sing with the band I play my wonderful Martin guitar.
Mmmmm! Martin guitars.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by Geoff Pollitt
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zook 100%
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by ecidralla
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flute, mountain dulcimer, guitar (but not for ITM)
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by KateG
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I show up with a snare drum and brushes
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by Aloysius
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Look on my bio. That reminds me I gotta update that thing.
# Posted on August 23rd 2005 by Why Bother?
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Fiddle mostly, mandolin sometimes, and have just started playing anglo concertina... what fun!.. just played my first tunes on it at last week's session.
# Posted on August 24th 2005 by aoife
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Flutes, uilleann pipes, whistles. used to play guitar and r*c*rd*r too, but no more.
# Posted on August 24th 2005 by seisflutes
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Mandolins mainly at they moment but can sometimes get psyched up for fiddle and am learning whistle(s)
# Posted on August 24th 2005 by Eachann mac Bodach
Re: What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
Fiddle. Some time ago I played the cello at a session a couple of times as a special request to provide a bass line from the dots, but normally I'd never let my cello see the inside of a pub unless there's a stage area specifically for the musicians.
Trevor
# Posted on August 24th 2005 by Trevor Jennings
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I play fiddle exclusively, but can play banjo and guitar.
dogma
# Posted on August 24th 2005 by dogmageek
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Serpent,theorbo,portative organ and psaltery.
# Posted on August 24th 2005 by dafydd
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piano, whistle and Irish trad flute - in order of merit
# Posted on August 24th 2005 by flauta dolce
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Harp, Piano, Concertina
# Posted on August 24th 2005 by Ptollemy
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OK....so where's all the shakey egg players then!!!!???
Come on....you just won't admit it..........we know you're out there!!
# Posted on August 24th 2005 by mikemcdaid
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Maracas and rainstick.
# Posted on August 24th 2005 by ∅
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"...once school and poo starts again.."
Dare i ask?
# Posted on August 24th 2005 by flanum
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Piano, harp, and violin/fiddle. Also a tiny bit of mountain and hammer dulcimers. Pennywhistle and some recorder, (though, my brother says that the recorder is not an instrument).
# Posted on August 25th 2005 by TJ
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PA
Oh, and an OM.
# Posted on August 25th 2005 by chautauqua
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Flute, Whistle, Low Whistle on occasion, and everyone's favorite.... The Piano Accordion.
# Posted on August 25th 2005 by N9YTY
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dafydd do you really play the serpent?
# Posted on August 26th 2005 by daiv
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Fiddle, tuba, and a little tenor sax (well, actually a little tenor sax is probably an alto sax, so what I mean is, I play a few tunes on tenor sax).
# Posted on August 26th 2005 by John Culhane
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We play all instruments.
# Posted on August 26th 2005 by Phantom Button
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Concertina, whistle...used to play pipes...am going to get back into them someday...
# Posted on August 27th 2005 by gr_geek
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Piano, concertina and, when there isn't room for a piano, the accordion. Oh dear. Why do so many people hate the accordion? Mine isn't very loud, and I certainly don't dominate sessions with it. Is it worse than the melodoen? if so, why? In what way? Or is it just not cool? Please explain....
# Posted on August 28th 2005 by flying tigerpig
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Fiddle. GHB. Bodhran. Make this into a survey.!! Go on, Find the time!!!!
# Posted on August 29th 2005 by celticrichie
Re: What intrusments do we all play on the Session?
ftp, I think the reason that P.A. is so denigrated, is because it's so useful, and the Eb fekkers can't shut you out. The more limited the instrument is, the higher up the hierarchy it is, so you get something essentially useless, like a diatonic flute and it's way up there, or the U.P. which there's only a half a dozen people can actually afford and the fiddle which almost no one can play.... ( Before you get yr draws in a knot, this IS a wind-up.)
Everybody hates yr accordian because you got it all right there in one box. You don't need them,& they resent it.
Squeeze on, sister.
# Posted on August 30th 2005 by Owell Mabee
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Oh yeah and it's REALLY not cool, but you never let that bother you before...
# Posted on August 30th 2005 by Owell Mabee
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acoustic guitars (in open C sus 2 =CGCGCD, followed by drop D and standard)
and in current (andpast) folk rock sets - electric guitar & bass, mandolin and percussion
# Posted on October 11th 2005 by lisaniska