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A snippet played on my Bart Reiter Standard Fretless with Chris Sands nylon strings

Played on my Bart Reiter Standard Fretless with Chris Sands nylon strings

Sound Sample Huber Jim Mills- from now on

From the 1930's recording of the Mississippi Possum Hunters for the old-time Tune of the Week. I'm partial to possum tunes, and anything Bigfoot plays....

Diego Sartor: Banjo, Mandolin

Enrico Bottiglione: Guitar

Antonio Chiacchia: Upright Bass

Composed by Diego Sartor

Here is a sound sample of the Puntolillo banjo, "The Bell". I'm not much of a tenor player (my strings come in sets of five), but here is my attempt. It seems that my overall tuning is flat on this recording; the strings are new. The flat pick I'm using is a Martin & Co. heavy (0.96mm) tortoise shell. Enjoy!

The song is entitled "Inis Bearachain Jig".

Shuckin the Corn on my 1928 (Gibson) Oriole conversion with mahogany neck.

For the old-time Tune of the Week, 5/27/16, this dance tune comes from Sweden in the early 1800's. The composer was well-known for playing the nyckelharpa, which slightly resembles a violin, but is more complex in structure. (Check out the TOTW to learn more.) The structure of the tune itself is foreign to my ears, but sounds typical of other European tunes I've heard. They're not "square," as so many of our fiddle tunes, thought the AABB parts are repeated in a similar way. The tune is fun to play and fits in well with clawhammer, thanks to the arrangement that helped me learn it by Jan-Olov Sundqvist, a Swedish BHO member who posted this week for TOTW.

une jig Cliff of Moher, un reel Eilen Curran, un hornpipe Galway bay

open G tuning

With natural skin my banjo is changing every hour !