Circa 1890 Saxony Amati regraduated by Royce Burt, Prim strings

Old timey Fiddle tune I learned off a friend.

A syrupy twin fiddle version of Blackberry Waltz, a tune I got from Fred Stoneking. Apparently it was written and recorded in the 30's by Nonnie Presson and the Perry County Music Makers. Pretty tune! Twin fiddles by Nick Bachman.

Sitting by the speakers playing along with a you tube of Meg Merrilies playing the harp.

My Version of Mad World. Done with electric violin. Ran the violin thru an Octave pedal into an Electro Harmonix Mel 9 into an Digitech Supernatural Ambient Reverb to get the orchestra, string sections and choral sounds.

'Messing around with guitar, mixing apps, and a metronome :)

Fiddle: ADAE

Chords: tatorjoes.com

Mixing: gigbaby (iOS), audacity (macOS)

"Big Tennessee" comes from the pre-civil war (~1830-1840) Hamblen Family transcripts.

Recordings:

>> Dan Gellert

>> Christian Wig

>> mossyroof (Canotes w Brendan Doyle)

>> fiddlehangout

This is a set of reels played by me as part of the Piper's Gathering Tutor's Concert in The Chapel at Wisdom House, Litchfield, CT featuring Owen Marshall on bouzouki.

I play the first tune "Orla's Reel" as a tribute to one of my favourite fiddle players, Paul Ruane (RIP) who lived in Tyneside and who composed the melody for his daughter.

AEAE tuning. Learned from Ward Jarvis (FRC402). Recorded 2/8/17 on my phone, playing in the passenger seat of my car.

Electric Fiddle ran through lots of effects played against drum machines and an analog monophonic synth.