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Hi Dave, Just sent you an e mail re the "guitarist"post and then clicked on your profile...two lovely examples of acoustic playing and tone..think you have found the holy grail of tone..don't tell me how ..having too much fun looking!
Make a date in you diary for 13th/14th September 2008 as that's when next years show will be and, god willing, I'll be there again. If your travels ever take you near High Wycombe you are very welcome to stay over and do some test-driving.
Dave, I really like these tunes and tried to experiment with the tunings, big problem though, someone's mixed all my notes up...lol - is there enough time & space to explain them here somewhere? or could you suggest a website to view?
Thank you Warwick Chris And Daffo. I know I like anagrams but it should have read Asturian group!
Ok here's a few more tunes. The first is the slip jig Katherine Kelley's (after Tony McManus) followed by a jig of my own called Daithi De Faoite's played on my cedar/maple Grand Concert in CGCGCD tuning. Then there is a Carolan piece played on my baritone guitar in Bb F C F Ab C tuning. Finally there is my take on The Water is Wide. I've head too many saccarine fingerstyle versions of this and decided it needed more attitude, so I recorded this one in DADGAC. Again it's my cedar/maole Grand Concert guitar.
The tune was written by the fiddler, Anxos Pintos, of the Saturian group Berregueto. My long time guitar buddy Bill Briscombe had done a lovely fingerstyle version in DADGAD (Capo III) and I came up with a second guitar part. We recorded it playing two guitars I made, one take into a single shared microphone. i really love the sound that came out. I've put a picture of us sad old farts playing it in my gallery(I'm the ugly one on the left)
Lovely music and dream guitars.
