I'm an enthusiastic but strictly amateur musician, playing a wide range of styles (I also play lead guitar and sing in a classic rock covers band!!). For traditional music, I'm mainly a guitar accompanist, though I occasionally play bouzouki and keyboards as well, and sing the odd (VERY ODD) song. Based in Dublin, Ireland, for traditional music I mainly use a Joe Foley hand-made guitar, made in 1988, which always seems to attract favourable comment from those who see/hear it. I prefer standard tuning (it's what I learned as a beginner, long before I caught the trad bug!) but occasionally stray into dropped D or DADGAD. (It's GDAD on the bouzouki). Main traditional music influences would be the Bothy Band and Planxty (yes I'm that old!) but as I play rock, blues, folk and a bit of jazz as well, my style tends to be a mixum-gatherum of all of the above. My stringed instrument collection currently includes 2 x Joe Foley acoustics, a Guild D30, Joe Foley bouzouki, Fender Stratocaster and an Epiphone Sheraton (for jazz and blues). As my wife and kids are also musical, we have quite a collection of instruments at home.......
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