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Raffaele Calace – Rhapsodia Napoletana for Mandolin and Piano – Yasunobu Inoue Japan

I have just discovereda new video with the Rhapsodia Napoletana by Raffaele Calace. Yasunobu Inoue plays this Rahpsodia on a mandolin built by Calace in 1926. Calace used several famous Neapolitan songs in this Rhapsodia – you will definitively recognize some of the songs. Yasunobu Inoue was born in 1975. He has successfully taken part […]

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Historical Recordings with Mandolin (Antique Phonograph Music Program)

Beside the Cylinder Preservation Project about which I have recently written in my blog I have found some other historical recordings. A radio staion in New York has a weekly feature with historical recordings played from Edison-cylinders and other old recordings on the original devices. I have found the following recordings with mandolin. Those broadcasts

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Historical recordings with Mandolin – Cylinder Preservation Project

The first recordings on Edison-cylindars were made bythe end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. To preserve the old recordings the Cylinder Preservation Project is digitising those old recordings http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/index.php The following recordings with mandolin are available: Search for “mandolin”: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?query=mandolin&queryType=%40attr+1%3D1016 Search for “Arriaga”: http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/search.php?query=arriaga&queryType=%40attr+1%3D1016

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Ferdinando de Cristofaro – The Famous Mandolin Method and an original Mandolin Pick from the 19th Century

Cristofaro – Methode de Mandoline (1884) I have recently added the first part of the mandolin method by Ferdinando de Cristofaro as a free download to my homepage mandoisland. You can find information about Cristofaro in the famous book “The Guitar and Mandolin” by Ph. J. Bone entnommen, you can view or download this complete

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Peter Ostroushko and the Prairie Home Companion – Beautiful Melodies

Peter Ostroushko is a mandolin player and composer – and he is one of my favorite mandolin players. So I am very happy that I have found a recent interview with Peter Ostroushko on the site of the Prairie Home Companion. Interview with Peter Ostroushko 2010 (Prairie Home Companion) http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/features/interviews/ostroushko_peter_2010/ In this interview Peter Ostroushko

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Interview with Mandolin-Masters David Grisman and Chris Thile

A German Blog has just written about an interview that David Grisman has made with Chris Thile in 2008 Interview mit den beiden Mandolinen-Virtuosen David Grisman und Chris Thile http://www.gitarrengurte.de/blog/?p=1169 This is an interesting post with a lot of informations about David Grisman and Chris Thile. The Interview was published in the Fretboard Journal in

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