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That's the spirit, Ricky! Good on ya, lad! Keep us all posted!
Yes, Sherriea, there are over 4200 of us here. And the vast majority of us are active players: some professionally, some not. Nevertheless, we all share a passion for the world of bowed instruments. So welcome: you've found a supportive and responsi…
When I was a fat little 7-year-old, Ricky, our teacher organized a Christmas Concert (you know, the kind of thing designed to be so big on heart-warming cuteness as to get the maximum number of parental bums in gym seats). Her Grade Twos were corral…
Scottish fiddle, eh? OK, that's a whole world unto itself, and a beautiful one, at that. One of the other fiddling magazines to which I subscribe is Fiddler's Magazine, and they maintain an excellent website with a killer links section. I've started…
Kevin, I had a set of planetary pegs (not sure if they're Knilling) installed on my German factory/workshop fiddle (circa 1920)about a year ago; I'd never go back! Love 'em!!
Nice pic, Kevin, but I don't think harpsichords are that shallow in depth. If it's not an early "pianoforte" (the type Mozart used) then it could be a clavichord, which (if I'm not mistaken) had its strings stretched horizontally. The clavichord fel…
At the moment, I'm suffering from a bout of right thumb tendonitis brought on by months of intensive practice on valve trombone (fortunately NOT fiddle). For the moment, I'm icing hourly, taking anti-inflammatories every four hours, and doing someth…
A place for musicians battling pain and injuries to talk about prevention, treatment, and other vagaries of our craft.
No, I'm not rich, Jerry, in any material sense of the word. However, I've been gifted (blessed, lucky, whatever) with an ability that I neither requested nor earned. Such is fate. Frequently an accident of birth creates circumstances that influence…
A group for songwriters, composers, lyricists, and such to converse with others with similar interest.
Jerry, I've played an instrument of some sort for 50 of my 60 years on this earth. During that time, I've also done a great deal of singing, both solo and in choral settings. The ability to "hear" harmonies wasn't anything I was taught: I've always…
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- At 1:31pm on August 26, 2010,
Kevin Keating said…
- Yeah, I have one of those too! (An ex-wife) I guess both pre and post Revolutionary War fiddle tunes are what I'd like to learn. Actually, I'm collecting whatever I can find as far as fiddle tune books go and I'm looking for them wherever I can find them, yard sales, used book stores, flea markets, ebay, museum gift shops.
18th century historical sites have always been very interesting to me. After seeing so many musicians playing (and making a living at it) in Williamsburg I thought that would be an awesome job that I would love. Even in smaller sites. I'm going to look into that locally here. Even if it's volunteer work at first it would be fun and get me familiar with that kind of playing.
As for sources, I'm just kinda winging it right now trying to pick up whatever I can here and there. Maybe there are music courses I could take at colleges in the area specific to a historical period. Learning the history of the tunes and composers is also important to that goal.
- At 8:57am on August 21, 2010,
Mark O'Connor said…
- Dave, thanks so much. I am excited now to release several more books now in the Method, the viola, cello and string orchestra versions of book I. It will be great to see this released after so much work on it! My hope is that the orchestra materials can begin to have an impact in school programs. For more info on any of these materials, please check the www.markoconnor.com site and go to the Method pages. Thanks again, MOC
- At 5:48am on July 26, 2010,
Terry Farrell said… - I was looking for you, so did a search! Milligans mentioned you taught in the Toronto area. There have also been lots of twists and turns for us. I do not play any musical instrument, but was searching for you. I have terminal melanoma cancer of the brain and the prognosis is not good. I was looking for your music "Well done good and faithful servant" I have been ordained 25 years now, mainly serving God's people in the Diocese of Venice Florida. We now live in Barrie.
- At 5:00pm on July 25, 2010,
Terry Farrell said…
- You were in the ministries program in Espanola, right! You sang at my ordination! Well done good and faithful servant! Are you one and the same!
- At 9:11am on July 24, 2010,
Kelly Torosian said… - Yes, well the reason I'm so exasperated with it is that I read the Twilight books as they were originally coming out, and decided that they just weren't good books. There's no plot to them! Just the main character being miserable and depressed that her boyfriend and his family are vampires and she's not. Oh, and everyone is out to get her, because they have nothing else better to do with their immortal lives, of course.
I went to see the first movie opening night, and it was even worse. That was about when everyone else started trying to speed read through all 4 books before they went to see the movie. They lauded it as a masterpiece, the best movie they've ever seen! I, on the other hand, found it remarkable that anyone with a brain in their head would call it good. I pay attention to the music underneath the action in most movies that I watch, and there was nothing that appealed to me in that whole movie except the short song "Bella's Lullaby".
So, in short, I am incredibly tired of people making a big deal out of something that really doesn't deserve all this attention.
- At 9:05pm on July 17, 2010,
Kevin Keating said…
- Thank you, Dave. I thought it was a rule that in notation you use all sharps or all flats and not mix the two in any given piece. But maybe that's just a preference? Or is it a matter of which direction you're going in the scale, up or down?
- At 7:06am on July 17, 2010,
Kevin Keating said…
- Hi, Dave. I posted an original of mine in my blogs if you'd like to see it. Any feedback from you would be greatly appreciated.
- At 6:54am on September 4, 2009,
Ruth Brons said… - Thanks, Dave!
- At 6:37am on September 4, 2009,
Ruth Brons said…
- Hi Dave,
A bit belated, but….
Welcome to the All Things Strings community!
Ruth Brons
Inventor of Bow Hold Buddies[tm] Instant Bow Hold bow accessory for violin/viola, and
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- At 12:36pm on August 20, 2009,
Tim McCarrick said… - Hey Dave - Thanks for the kind words. Yes, Alfred sells MP3's of all their arrangements. Here is a link that should get you directly to the MP# of my arrangement: Fiddle Like The Dickens
http://alfred-music.com/product_info.php?item_no=31531
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