In the homepage of DUNAV – a homepage dedicated to the folk danes of eastern Europe and Asia – I have recently discovered this simple but anyway interesting folk dance tune: Tin Tin Tini Mini Hanim The melody is composed of only 5 different notes, but it is possible to play this tune for a …
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A great swing tune by David Grisman – Tipsy Gypsy. This is a great tune if you want to start with jazz or swing mandolin. You can find free TABs and sheet music on the Mandozine homepage. David Grisman played and conducted this with participants of the Mandolin Syposium 2006 – a great performance: Dawg …
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I have just made a new recording and video of Thebes – a great mandolin tune by Norman Blake. We love to play this tune with our bluegrass band. I have made a multi-track recording (using the free Audacity software) with mandolin, guitar and a second mandolin playing chords. Thebes – Great Mandolin Tune by …
Under the Double Eagle (German: Unter dem Doppeladler) is a military march composed by Josef Franz Wagner during the last decades of the 19th century (probably around 1880). I have found a recording that was made on an Edison cylinder in 1899 on the archive.org site (see below). Some years later around 1908 the famous …