The mandolin has a nice tone, but no matter how many times we make adjustments to it, it slips back to it's original way. It was a cheap mandolin anyways, so I'm not going to bother going to a mandolin maker to fix it.
I'm getting a Shapiro mandolin around march / april or some time before the fleadh as I have requested. I tried one not long ago and it was perfect, they had a job to pull me away from it!
I'm used to rather noisy sessions where mandolinists can be seen hunched over their instruments looking as if several zillion volts were going through them, but are nonetheless wholly inaudible.
To listen to your solo playing was like hearing some songbird normally quite lost in the dawn chorus emerge on its own from a bush and sing of summer in full-throated ease.
Then, if it is anything special like (say) a Least Trans-Dnieprian Lunch-bird, it will evade the lenses of 5000 twitchers staked out in a shopping centre car park and step unswervingly into the jaws of a cat.
...Just as well most of us are not that special, perhaps.
I have a Dave Shapiro mandolin and it's a really fabulous instrument. Dave knows his woods very well and is a great craftsman. Highly recommend the instrument
Already ordered Hoping to have it before the Galway fleadh. I got 1st place last year on that one I already have and I decided I may as well go for it again but would prefer to have an upgraded one. I went to Tom Cussen and he only had one left but it was already sold so I only got to test it. I thought it was amazing!
Mandolin Jigs
Mandolin Jigs
I just uploaded a video to YouTube of myself playing the Mandolin.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkLdM71aBBY
The mandolin has a nice tone, but no matter how many times we make adjustments to it, it slips back to it's original way. It was a cheap mandolin anyways, so I'm not going to bother going to a mandolin maker to fix it.
I'm getting a Shapiro mandolin around march / april or some time before the fleadh as I have requested. I tried one not long ago and it was perfect, they had a job to pull me away from it!
# Posted on February 11th 2012 by Patrick Murray
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I thought the YouTube was all right!
I'm used to rather noisy sessions where mandolinists can be seen hunched over their instruments looking as if several zillion volts were going through them, but are nonetheless wholly inaudible.
To listen to your solo playing was like hearing some songbird normally quite lost in the dawn chorus emerge on its own from a bush and sing of summer in full-throated ease.
Then, if it is anything special like (say) a Least Trans-Dnieprian Lunch-bird, it will evade the lenses of 5000 twitchers staked out in a shopping centre car park and step unswervingly into the jaws of a cat.
...Just as well most of us are not that special, perhaps.
# Posted on February 11th 2012 by nicholas
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I don't know whether to say thank you or to ask you to translate that for me! Ah no, thanks you!
# Posted on February 11th 2012 by Patrick Murray
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Translated, it means: your playing sounded pretty good to me!
# Posted on February 11th 2012 by nicholas
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thank you! haha
# Posted on February 11th 2012 by Patrick Murray
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You could have tuned it
# Posted on February 12th 2012 by ...
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Once again Patrick, nice playing, I think we'll be hearing plenty from you in the coming years.Well done!
# Posted on February 12th 2012 by Backer
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Patrick,
You might consider going to mandolincafe.com and bringing your playing to the Celtic/Irish music thread and the Song of the Week social group. there you will find a lot more mandolin players eager to help and discuss the music.
http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?43-Celtic-U-K-Nordic-Quebecois-European-Folk
http://www.mandolincafe.com/forum/group.php?groupid=67
Mike Keyes
# Posted on February 13th 2012 by mikeyes
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I have a Dave Shapiro mandolin and it's a really fabulous instrument. Dave knows his woods very well and is a great craftsman. Highly recommend the instrument
Enda
# Posted on February 13th 2012 by Enda Scahill
Re: Mandolin Jigs
Already ordered
Hoping to have it before the Galway fleadh. I got 1st place last year on that one I already have and I decided I may as well go for it again but would prefer to have an upgraded one. I went to Tom Cussen and he only had one left but it was already sold so I only got to test it. I thought it was amazing!
# Posted on February 23rd 2012 by Patrick Murray