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, Gibson Les Paul, Gibson SG 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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