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@ponderable saidMood music for the moment that the last guest leaves your party. And even though the keg is empty, you know that you've a nice flask of quality rum stashed in your underwear drawer.
Was spoken to by a man who sold me a cd on a parking lot, he claimed to be a member of that Estonian band, here is one song from the Disc:
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@Ponderable
Very nice indeed. He is the only classical mandolinist to have been nominated for a Grammy. I wish I had met him when we lived in Jerusalem but we were deep into the folk community there and never even heard of him back then. I compose folkish tunes on mandolin and have a number of them on my soundcloud account.
I can PM the link to you if you like.
I just acquired a 101 year old Gibson A2 model in stunningly perfect shape and it sounds better than any mandolin I ever owned, and I have owned several old Gibsons.
I found a luthier relatively close to me, a guy named Robert Tisk and he has already redone 3 of our instruments and is at work resetting the neck on my 1944 single O 18 Martin guitar.
I bought the Gibson A2 from him recently and he has a really nice sounding Martin I am presently drooling over🙂
I just listened to a youtube of Sam Bush and Sierra Hull
Like this one:
Just as an example of mandolin at speed in bluegrass, my tunes are a LOT slower and more aimed at more actual musicality of melodies and chords than super speed of Sierra, who is a great mandolinists as well as Sam who in this vid only does backup but he is just as good as Sierra in the bluegrass idiom.
Really not my favorite style but that is another issue.
Here is another youtube about Sierra, who is going to Berklee which is where my daughter graduated in her first degree.
And here she talks about different tunings of the mandolin:
She really is a prodigy and growing.
