Hello, matey! Happy new year! We play this at my Irish music club at the pub. Thanks for sharing the great music. All the best to you, have a wonderful 2024!
Thank you, Simon… ‘Though I’m a little bit worried post recording that I’ve played what I will refer to as the ‘B’ part twice…and repeated this when playing the whole tune the second time around. Most recordings seem to only play the ‘B’ part once, either if playing just once, or before playing the tune a second time around. However, the fiddle player in the Dubliners, in the following recording, also plays the ‘B’ part twice (though doesn’t play the whole tune a second time around): ua-cam.com/video/XnlZpRp5Yg0/v-deo.htmlsi=7coQEHn9jr6KigCr Have I made an error?
@@johnwilliamson6846 Why not play the B part three times? Then just mention in the notes that it’s the non-standard, wonderful but equally enjoyable Bx3 part version? 😊
Acceptable suggestion…but now that we have our exchanges in the mix I think I’ll just leave things as they are and see of anyone comments! (Observant analysts in the MC SAW group may raise a question…though the regular contributors are probably to,polite to imply criticism…😉…no offence to my fellow contributors.
Lovely. Not quite the full, early 70s Horslips rendition, but then nothing else is. Give another listen to Drive The Cold Winter Away if you haven't in a while. It's that time of year again.
@@johnwilliamson6846 "Drive the Cold Winter Away" is both a song and album title, a sadly overlooked gem that takes all manner of very old folk songs and sort of packages them into a "Christmas album," but it's actually much deeper than that. As just one example, there's the haunting "Rug Muire Mac Do Dhia" (Mary Bore a Son to God), the Irish vocal to which will stay with you forever.
I don’t mind at all…it is made by Vega (renown for their banjos, but they also made some other instruments, including mandolins, back in the day). This mandolin is referred to as a cylinderback (as the back has a cylindrical shape), and it’s the model 203…made around 1919.
Thanks. I’ve been playing mandolin around 7 years…and hopefully I’m still learning/developing. However, I would say it is possible to be able to get some tunes out of the instrument in a relatively short time period. I’ve probably only dabbled with the tenor banjo for a couple of years…and I went for a tenor banjo as the tuning is the same as the mandolin, which made learning it a lot easier.
Another great tune and great playing. Thanks John for sharing your beautiful music. 👏👏👏👏👏🙏🏿
Thank you very much for commenting. Hope you are well.
Hello, matey! Happy new year! We play this at my Irish music club at the pub. Thanks for sharing the great music. All the best to you, have a wonderful 2024!
Hello, Jerrel. Many thanks…a tune that’s played and enjoyed in many venues…Happy New Year!
Well played!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
Love this tune 🎶
It’s a great tune…thank you for listening and commenting, David.
Really nice
Glad you liked it, and thank you for commenting.
Nice job on that tune! Sounds great.
Glad you thought so, thanks for listening and commenting.
Bravo!
Gracias!
Very nice playing.
Thank you, Simon… ‘Though I’m a little bit worried post recording that I’ve played what I will refer to as the ‘B’ part twice…and repeated this when playing the whole tune the second time around. Most recordings seem to only play the ‘B’ part once, either if playing just once, or before playing the tune a second time around. However, the fiddle player in the Dubliners, in the following recording, also plays the ‘B’ part twice (though doesn’t play the whole tune a second time around): ua-cam.com/video/XnlZpRp5Yg0/v-deo.htmlsi=7coQEHn9jr6KigCr
Have I made an error?
@@johnwilliamson6846 Why not play the B part three times? Then just mention in the notes that it’s the non-standard, wonderful but equally enjoyable Bx3 part version? 😊
Acceptable suggestion…but now that we have our exchanges in the mix I think I’ll just leave things as they are and see of anyone comments! (Observant analysts in the MC SAW group may raise a question…though the regular contributors are probably to,polite to imply criticism…😉…no offence to my fellow contributors.
cool man
Thanks very much 👍
Swagger
Thanks, glad you thought so.
Lovely. Not quite the full, early 70s Horslips rendition, but then nothing else is. Give another listen to Drive The Cold Winter Away if you haven't in a while. It's that time of year again.
Thanks…yes, not easy to reproduce the Horslips version in the house! As regards the other tune, I shall take a listen.
@@johnwilliamson6846
"Drive the Cold Winter Away" is both a song and album title, a sadly overlooked gem that takes all manner of very old folk songs and sort of packages them into a "Christmas album," but it's actually much deeper than that. As just one example, there's the haunting "Rug Muire Mac Do Dhia" (Mary Bore a Son to God), the Irish vocal to which will stay with you forever.
@@haeuptlingaberja4927 👍 Thanks, and all the best for 2024!
Lovely playing and a great tune. Thanks!
@stevethornton3539 Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for the appreciation.
Nice tune. Like the tone of your mandolin - what make is that ?
Thanks. It’s a vintage (around 1919) Vega Cylinderback 203.
@@johnwilliamson6846 Ah, OK. Sweet sound.
@@robertfm116👍
do you mind me asking who built your mandolin!!!
I don’t mind at all…it is made by Vega (renown for their banjos, but they also made some other instruments, including mandolins, back in the day). This mandolin is referred to as a cylinderback (as the back has a cylindrical shape), and it’s the model 203…made around 1919.
Great! How long did it take to get comfortable playing banjo and mandolin
Thanks. I’ve been playing mandolin around 7 years…and hopefully I’m still learning/developing. However, I would say it is possible to be able to get some tunes out of the instrument in a relatively short time period. I’ve probably only dabbled with the tenor banjo for a couple of years…and I went for a tenor banjo as the tuning is the same as the mandolin, which made learning it a lot easier.