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72nd Highlanders Farewell to Aberdeen – Mandolin, Recorder, Bagpipe

72nd’s Farewell to Aberdeen Lament and Hoedown played on the mandolin by Mike Romkey Farewell to Aberdeen – (Versión en castellano) played on recorder and guitar Melodía escocesa interpretada por flauta dulce soprano y guitarra española. Esta versión aparece en castellano. La melodía se suele tocar con bandas de gaitas escocesas The 72nd Highlanders Farewell […]

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Duo Maple – A Japanese Duo with an Italian Soul from Tokyo – With Guitar, Mandolin, Shamisen, Shakuhachi

Some time ago I have discovered the videos by the Duo Maple, a duo with mandolin and guitar from Japan. The duo occasionally adds other players with instruments like the Japanese instruments shamisen and shakuhachi, a second guitar, an accordeon or even a bagpipe to its program. Yoko Eto (mandolin) and Shinji Nordtor (guitar, mandola)

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The Mandolin Method by Giuseppe Branzoli (1875) – Compositions for Mandolin and for Mandolin Orchestra

I have recently added a new page about the mandolin method by Giuseppe Branzoli on my page about mandolin methods. http://www.mandoisland.de/bilder/schulen/branzoli_schule.html I have also made a new scan of the first volume of the German edition of Branzoli’s mandolin methodwhich has been published at the beginning of the 20th century by Universal Edition. This scan

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Austin City Limits – Great Show with The Civil Wars and Punch Brothers

“When you start a band, this is all you really ever wanted to do – play Austin City Limits”- Chris Thile From Wikipedia: Austin City Limits (often abbreviated as ACL) is an American public television music program recorded live in Austin, Texas by Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Public television member station KLRU, and broadcast on

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Joe Brent & Alon Sariel – “An Englishman in New York” – Dowland on Mandolins – Kickstarter Project

Joe Brent from New York and Alon Sariel from Israel have started a project to make recordings of music by John Downland in arrangments for two mandolins. They have already made recordings and will continue to work on this project during the next weeks when they both will be in London. Alon and Joe have

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The Mandolin Methods by Gabriele Leone, Giovanni Fouchetti and Pietro Denis (18th century) – Now available as download!

Three mandolin methods from the 18th century, the methods by Gabriele Leone, Giovanni Fouchetti and Pietro Denis are now available at musicaneo.com. The printed edition by Edition Minkoff is no more available as the Minkoff company has ceised in 2010. Those methods can be used to study the mandolin technique used in the 18th century

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Wheel Song – Bump of Chicken – With Mandolin – Great Version for Mandolin Orchestra

Some time ago I have discovered another great popsong from Japan that has been arrangend for mandolin orchestra – Song of the Wheel by Bump of Chicken. The famous Japanese rock band Bump of Chicken used the mandolin for the recorded version of this song, the mandolin is also used in the official video of

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My tumblr Archive for September 2012 – Mandolins, Mandolin Clubs, Old Instruments

Tumblr is a great way to collect and present pictures and links to interesting videos and other sites. Here is my tumblr archive for September 2012 – click to pictures to open the complete post in a seperate window: http://mandoisland.tumblr.com/archive/2012/9 My tumblr site – just scroll down to view: http://mandoisland.tumblr.com/ One topic for me was

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The Noisettes – Shingai Shoniwa and Dan Smith – New Album “Contact” – Great Song: “Ragtop Car” with Mandolin

A picture with a mandolin – Dan The Mandolin Man! – shared with twitter led me to the new album by The Noisettes. The Noisettes will release their new album Contact tomorrow on Aug. 27th. The album was available as streaming audio for the last days at graziadaily.co.uk. I think this is a great album

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