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Ok, I just scanned (with a camera) a book from 1950 called "Folk Songs of Alabama". It's full of these short, simple little songs with lyrics that I think would be great for people playing the sort of simple folk instruments we see in here. I'm just wondering, what's the best way to host a big gallery like this? It's 102 images, each image containing two pages of the book. imgur will take a while to upload, I think I'll start on it but I'm interested in hearing any other recommendations.
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It was too big to go on minus.com, but here's the PDF (warning, it's 138 MB, I left the pictures at pretty high quality): https://www.dropbox.com/s/0ole583ygv5jrd6/songs.pdf?dl=0 The first few pages are kind of lovely looking, but that's just the introduction/forward. Once you get to the music, I started to figure things out a little better and it looks decent. Edit: Table of contents  
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Sep 19, 2014 17:01
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   The strings are settling in while he makes the soft bag. Soon... soon!
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Sep 22, 2014 17:53
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Maaaaan, that is pretty. You definitely have to record us some YouTube tunes once you get that running. Black horsehair, he was going to do roan but decided on black in the end.
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Sep 23, 2014 18:24
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Jouhikko ships tomorrow and should be here by Friday. I'll probably work from home on Friday just so I can get my hands on it right away.
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Sep 30, 2014 18:13
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THE JOUHIKKO IS HERE I had to pick it up at the USPS sorting center because I gave the wrong address (typed a 5 instead of a 6) but it's in my grubby little mitts now. It looks awesome and sounds pretty neat. I'm going to talk to the maker in a little while and see if we can work out the tuning properly. I'll take pictures tonight when I get home from work. Maybe a Youtube video, but it would just be me playing the open strings because I can tell air-fretting is going to take a lot of practice.
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Oct 3, 2014 21:22
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I am bad at photography:     Lighting was sub-optimal so the colors don't really show properly. Recordings to come, I'm getting better at bowing and I'm making notes on the chanter string sound better. I spoke to the luthier on the phone Friday and we discussed playing & maintenance techniques. Other people interested in jouhikko might appreciate the string naming/tuning info I got: Tonic: The string furthest from you, always played open. Generally tuned to F or G. Drone: The center string, usually played open and always in concert with one of the other two. Tuned a 4th (5 semitones) below tonic, so generally C or D depending on the tonic's tuning. Chanter: The string that's closest to you, on which the melody is played. Tuned a 2nd (2 semitones) above the tonic, so a G or an A.
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Oct 5, 2014 22:16
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I discovered last night that "We Three Kings" fits in the range of the jouhikko and actually sounds pretty decent. We'll see if I can manage to play it properly tonight while recording.
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Oct 10, 2014 17:48
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My wife is Indian, which means of course there's a harmonium tucked in a corner of her parents' garage. At least, there was a few years ago. Next time we go over we're planning to grab it since no-one else is using it. poo poo yeah, harmoniums! They're like half of an accordion!  Edit: Also, my wife says she wants to try tabla... anyone here bought a set online? I'm wondering if I should go ebay or amazon. Pham Nuwen fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Mar 26, 2015 |
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Mar 25, 2015 22:18
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:Harmoniums are awesome, though I satisfied my desire for one by getting a concertina instead, which sort of meets the same need. If we can ask, what culture in India are your wife's parents from? Given they have a harmonium but don't play it, my gut guess would be Sikh. Sindhi, actually. The harmonium is home now and I spent some time playing with it Saturday and Sunday. Seems to be in pretty good shape and plays fine. Three octave range, two drones, three stops, and tremolo. I mostly bashed out poo poo like A Whiter Shade of Pale and Greensleeves because I had the sheet music handy. TapTheForwardAssist posted:Ho boy, we had a discussion about exactly this issue back on page 41: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3415486&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=41 I looked at the back and forth... I'm going to try and convince her to go try an introductory class at the local Gurdwara or something, just to get some time at the drums, then if she likes it we'll try to buy a pair from Ali Akbar College. It sounds like she wants tabla specifically, so I'm going to focus on that for now.
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Mar 30, 2015 17:05
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:I've been saying forever that I need to learn more Indian harmonium licks on concertina, and then I don't get around to it. And at the moment I can't because I'm vagabonding about the South and don't want to carry a $4k concertina with me. But if my money/common-sense ratio increases, I have a vague vision of someday going with my concertina to a real harmonium instructor and telling him "teach me to do on my thing what you do on your thing". The harmonium is pretty drat cool, even though I think this was a cheap one... one of her relatives left it at the house years ago and never came back for it, so I assume it wasn't anything too fancy. I don't perform, not since high school band. I did clarinet, bassoon, and bass drum (marching band) back then. I love playing but I'm not much good if I don't have sheet music to read from... this may be part of why I still suck at jouhikko so much. Right now I have the jouhikko, a clarinet, the harmonium, my wife's kantele, and my home-made diddley-bow... but I'm not practiced enough at any of them to perform for other people. I could probably play the clarinet for other people if I spent some more time practicing. She's very aware of how tabla plays in Indian music, although she's never tried playing one. We'll see about finding her a teacher, although we're probably moving in the summer which means 1) the next few months will be busy, and 2) we probably won't be able to find a teacher in the new place. Like I said, I think the Gurdwara has free lessons, which could be a convenient way for her to get some basic instruction. Then we have until our move date to get up to AACM and check out tabla sets.
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Mar 30, 2015 19:12
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Meldonox posted:I've been following this thread for years and I think this might be the right summer for me to learn a weird instrument. I have some history playing recorder as a kid and trombone as an older kid, but I was never terribly good at either. I own a guitar and banjo that I'd like to learn, but I figured before I start trying to vet instructors I'd check here to see if there's something that fits my situation well: Five-string kantele?
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May 12, 2015 04:55
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goodness posted:I am looking for a string instrument that is portable and I could learn to play a variety of Grateful Dead and other rock/jam songs of that nature. consider a guitar?  I don't know, maybe a mandolin? Or a ukulele, if you're a photogenic girl with a Youtube channel.
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Jun 11, 2015 04:35
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Long ago, TTFA mailed me a Swedish spelpipa, along with a booklet entitled "Jag blåste i min pipa..." which is all in Swedish but luckily, musical notation doesn't require much explanation, even when it's your own weird custom tabulature thing. I promised him I'd make a recording of it, but then I moved, and I'm basically a guy who sucks so I never got around to it until now. But today I pulled out the book and the spelpipa, took a few minutes to figure out one of the songs, and here it is: https://soundcloud.com/phamnuwen/tulu-pa-logen I like the sound way better than a tin whistle.
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May 22, 2016 22:25
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Syndlig posted:I splurged and grabbed one-day shipping, so my brand new uke'll be here tomorrow! How hard is it to restring a ukelele? I'm a lefty, so I'll probably feel more comfortable swapping them out, though I'll give it a try and see how playing right-handed goes. Restringing is really easy because the strings aren't as stabby as a guitar. Just do one at a time, take it slow, look up a guide on how to wrap the string. I've done it before on what I think was a tenor uke and it was simple.
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Jun 30, 2016 20:45
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Shame Boner posted:The accordion is a 41-key 120-bass key Spirito Cleveland. The strap has seen better days but thankfully the bellows is in great shape. This guy's playing the exact same model: I'd like to jump in. Bassoon: so good, right? But also so absurdly expensive for even a babby model, and they just don't feel much like a solo instrument.
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Jul 8, 2016 04:02
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If anyone else in here is playing around with bowed instruments, I cannot stress enough how important it is to rosin your poo poo. I've never felt like I was getting a very good tone out of my jouhikko. The luthier said he rosined the bow before sending it, so I had sort of discounted that as a possibility. But, as I found my tone getting even weaker and weaker until I could barely coax a note from the thing, I ordered a $3 stick of rosin. Holy poo poo! Once I'd applied it, even a slightly touch of bow to string brings sound! It's amazing. So yeah, don't be a dumbass like me, just order some rosin (I got https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0002OP0WC/) and use it!
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Jul 30, 2016 20:40
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nielsm posted:I got it for free from my brother, he was about to trash it anyway so it's not a huge loss if it's unsalvageable. WD40 is a cleaner, not a lubricant. Don't put it on wood. If the tuner has metal gears I'd recommend using PB Blaster to clean followed by maybe some 3-in-1 oil or silicone lube to lubricate.
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Sep 21, 2016 16:31
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nielsm posted:Yes metal tuning mechanisms. Basically, WD-40 is a terrible lubricant and it's not a very good cleaning product either. You can use it to clean if you must, I guess... just spray some into a bottle cap and dab with a q-tip. PB Blaster is a great penetrating cleaning agent but when I think about it, it might be a little too aggressive to use around nice finished wood like an instrument. A light dab of 3-in-1 oil would probably do wonders for the gears.
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Sep 21, 2016 18:01
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aricoarena posted:You call that a balalaika? This is a balalaika! The Red Elvises use one too: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q8A-bvQLP8
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Oct 11, 2016 23:55
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*in an extremely Carnac the Magnificent voice* the thread will say... Native American Flute
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Nov 27, 2016 06:51
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Keeping this thread out of the archives with a song by one of my favorites, Stan Rogers, which includes significant Northumbrian Smallpipes starting, oh, 1/3 of the way in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQSEn-SZzpM quote:In his songbook, Songs from Fogarty’s Cove (1982), Rogers writes, “Grit Laskin plays Northumbrian Smallpipes, see, and I thought it would be nice to have him play them on the album. But the pipes only play in the keys of F and E-flat, and I had not songs in these keys, so I had to write one.” From such humble beginnings… (https://singout.org/2012/04/09/harris-and-the-mare/)
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Apr 10, 2017 23:28
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Turtlicious posted:Does anyone know where you can pick up a Mandolin for 20 -> 40 bucks? I think I got one on Craigslist for about $40 but that was 7 years ago and it needed strings.
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Jun 12, 2017 14:40
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Please refer to my avatar for an excellent mandolin book recommendation.
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Jul 29, 2017 23:46
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