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November 23rd 2009 Irony for the masses - anyone bought a new Saltarelle Rivage box lately? bc_box_player 2 November 23rd 2009
November 22nd 2009 Uilleann Pipe Prices WobblingFiddle 4 November 23rd 2009
November 22nd 2009 Tunes in the Details ~ member's compositions ceolachan 3 November 22nd 2009
November 22nd 2009 More East Galway Music, Please. . 5 November 23rd 2009
November 22nd 2009 framus banjo framus frank 4 November 23rd 2009
November 22nd 2009 [ uni] degree Dodger 17 November 23rd 2009
November 22nd 2009 Denise Shiels Michael Sam Wild 0
November 22nd 2009 Is C/G Anglo actually better than G/D? cesarpim 22 November 23rd 2009
November 22nd 2009 Badhran Player or musician Lord Gordan 32 November 23rd 2009
November 22nd 2009 Mick Hanly - "The Guerriere and the Constitution" gravelwalks 2 November 22nd 2009

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Re: Tunes useful for learning various "ornaments"

Thanks for the definition. I understand. more…

Re: More East Galway Music, Please.

The Kane sisters are not from east Galway, but they're pretty good all the same. Conor Tully's recording with Paddy Carty has been unavailable for some time, but it seems to me the essence of east Galway music, if there be such a thing. I just visited th… more…

Re: Chromcor fans I have a simple Q

By a cosmic coincidence, this just happened to me, lazyhound. The more…

Re: Tunes useful for learning various "ornaments"

That's a beat and a half, equivalent to 3 eighth notes more…

Re: [ uni] degree

Well I don't know if that ticks *every* box in "lifeless, prissy, over produced/practiced/refined/modal knowledged/theoried/guitar harmonics/trad policed/celtic music/new age", but I think you've found and example that comes close. We have a fair idea wha… more…

Re: The Various Cross-bowing Methods

I can tell you of one example of a local fiddler telling me about how they bowed Mountain Road and I think the same idea can be applied to Jackie Coleman's (which I think was mentioned earlier). My tendency as a habitual person is to want to bow the openi… more…

To "the wicked hacker:"

Quote: "Anyhow, what is cross-bowing?" more…

Quoted from SWFL Fiddler:

"Someone else once said they went to a workshop that had an odd yet useful exercise. They were told to bow an entire tune just using 1 inch of bow anywhere between the middle and tip. The point being that big, broad bow strokes are not needed for fiddling… more…

Re: [ uni] degree

I don't know exactly what "lifeless, prissy, over produced/practiced/refined/modal knowledged/theoried/guitar harmonics/trad policed/celtic music/new age" means; I mean, it sounds like a lot to live up to, doesn't it? But you got to admit this is good, e… more…

Now back to my original question/request:

I really appreciate all the tid-bits all you guys have been sharing. Keep them coming! However, that's not really what I was setting out to look for in the first place. more…

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