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Bob Michel

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #20 on: April 07, 2015, 10:13:28 PM »

One more topographical tune for this month's Theme, the four-part jig "The Humours of Ballyloughlin."

http://youtu.be/V4dX4Lmo4ac

So many Places, so little time.

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #21 on: April 10, 2015, 08:43:14 PM »

Hello

Zycanthos http://youtu.be/7X1f7B1m5Vc

You know when your doing something and there's a point in a job where it look worse than when you started . Well this might be at exactly that moment .....

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #22 on: April 12, 2015, 11:38:59 AM »

I learnt this funky minor version of a fairly well-known Welsh tune from the bagpipe playing of John Tose; I think it fits rather nicely on the box:

https://soundcloud.com/robotmay/meillionen-o-feirionnydd
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #23 on: April 13, 2015, 04:13:23 PM »

I know nowt about Attingham as a place but hope it is one and that perhaps it inspired Helena Torpy to compose the Attingham Waltz.
Here's a go at it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRqBApV-gUs
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #24 on: April 17, 2015, 06:37:23 AM »

There is a place in Ireland, where the birds are said "to increase". How they manage that is not forthcoming, but the name of the place is Bunclody, and here is it's own tune, which I always enjoy playing.

                       https://youtu.be/1toNv9v2qtc
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #25 on: April 18, 2015, 12:30:25 PM »

hello everyone
this is my first post and my first video
and although my playing is still rather poor (and so is my english)
i'd like to add a well known swiss tune called "Guggisbärg" (a small village between
the towns of Fribourg and Thun in the alps...).
Its melody is not very alpine, specially when you play it a bit faster,
that's why I added a kletzmer-tune that fits quite well I think....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRU1Mjp3ylc
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #26 on: April 18, 2015, 12:53:03 PM »

and although my playing is still rather poor
Not. :D
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #27 on: April 18, 2015, 01:22:48 PM »

and although my playing is still rather poor
Not. :D
I like it, too.  :D

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #28 on: April 18, 2015, 03:31:53 PM »

"Wir sind die Sänger von Finsterwalde":

https://youtu.be/B2DfoYwokw4
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #29 on: April 18, 2015, 05:06:47 PM »

Well, it didn't do great in the TOTM poll this month (why not, it's fantastic?), so by one of those coincidences that isn't a coincidence, I get to have a go at it anyway in ThOTM as a 'Places' tune.

Here is Thomas Walsh's beautiful air, Inisheer
Played on a Castagnari Mory in D/G.

Cheers,

Clive

My goodness. It's not often a tune makes me cry. this is outstanding, Clive. thanks so much for posting. (And yes, I am playing it on my g/d/a/ Weltmeister right now.) thanks again, Dave
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #30 on: April 19, 2015, 11:59:17 AM »

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #31 on: April 19, 2015, 01:06:34 PM »

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #32 on: April 19, 2015, 01:11:57 PM »

This is my contribution this month: Return From Helsinki. Wonderful tune  ::)

http://youtu.be/Jx-oUFAqwRs

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #33 on: April 19, 2015, 01:21:07 PM »

Nice playing,  but you should credit the composer on your youtube:  Ian Stephenson
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #34 on: April 19, 2015, 02:19:04 PM »

There is a place in Ireland, where the birds are said "to increase". How they manage that is not forthcoming, but the name of the place is Bunclody, and here is it's own tune, which I always enjoy playing.

                       https://youtu.be/1toNv9v2qtc
I am moved to comment how great that tune is. But further, what an amazing looking instrument. If you've ever seen a canal boat in England you'll understand when I say it's painted up a bit like a canal boat. And I'm not saying that to be rude. It wouldn't be out of of place at a retro steam fairground either.
Anyway, nice playing.

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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #35 on: April 19, 2015, 02:29:10 PM »

Nice playing,  but you should credit the composer on your youtube:  Ian Stephenson

Thanks. I have updated the video description.
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #36 on: April 19, 2015, 02:48:01 PM »

Thank you. Ian is a friend.
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #37 on: April 21, 2015, 01:02:21 PM »

I really liked your Return from Helsinki by Ian Stephenson Thomas and it reminded me that we did this tune in a pub session a few years ago with Chris Brimley. Here it is:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlsegqAUaCw
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #38 on: April 21, 2015, 02:23:07 PM »

And here is on taught to me recently by my friend from Switzerland Erich Shatti :- My roof is the sky above Zurich.
https://www.facebook.com/roland.carson/videos/vb.1037829270/10205348847374162/?type=2&theater
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Re: Theme of the Month for April 2015: Places
« Reply #39 on: April 21, 2015, 03:17:30 PM »

Before April's Theme gives way to a new one, here are a couple of hornpipes from "Ryan's Mammoth Collection" (Boston, 1883):

http://youtu.be/XiABEy5RTUU

I might have expected the Texarkana Blues, or just possibly the Texarkana Two-Step, but not a hornpipe. Turns out it bears a close family resemblance (at least) to both Rickett's and the Yarmouth Hornpipe. A lot of the tunes in Ryan's seem to have been named by someone pointing randomly at a map of the United States, as Stephen Foster is said to have come up with "Swanee (meaning Suwanee) River."

As for the Staten Island Hornpipe, the nonnegotiable flatted seventh in the B part of more familiar versions would ordinarily disqualify it as a one-row tune, but this old setting (which I can't remember having heard anywhere) works just fine. I like it, in an expectation-defeating sort of way.

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