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Metallica – Toto – REM – on Mandolin, Mandola, Guitar and Bass – Bandolins de Madeira

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Madeira must be a good place for mandolins – at the moment there are 17 mandolin orchestras and tunas on Madeira. Activities of those orchestras can be found on the website of the Associacion de Bandolins de Madeira http://www.bandolins-madeira.net/ A group of four players with mandolin, mandola (octave mandolin), guitar and bass has arranged some …

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Watermusic – Georg Friedrich Händel on plucked instruments

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Last year was the 250th year after the death of Georg Friedrich Händel, and so Händels music was present in the media. Händels music can also be played on plucked instruments, here I have collected some interesting examples: Suite by Händel played by the Mandolin Orchestra Het CONSORT Evan J. Marshall, Solo Mandolin: Handel’s Pastorale …

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The Grupo Ayate – Joyfull Plucked Strings from the Canary Islands

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During the last days I have watched many videos with music of the Canary Islands – Gran Canaria or Tenerife. On the Canary Islands they have a tradition of mixed ensembles with plucked instruments – guitar, bandurria, laud and the typical instrument named timple. In most cases the ensemble is used to accompany one or …

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Julian Lage – Jazz Guitar

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Julian Lage is a young but already very successful jazz guitar player from the USA. Last year he has recorded his first Solo-CD Sounding Point with some special guests including Christ Thile and Bela Fleck. The following video was made on the occasion of the CD release. Julian Lage tells about his childhood, how he …

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