Yule Session 2017
We had our home Yule Session yesterday – we played about 40 tunes using various combinations of fiddle (4), guitar […]
2017
Christmas Eve Lasagna
Canadian 🇨🇦️ daughter-in-law has arrived (just!) and slaved over hot stove and oven to produce yummy lasagna for Christmas Eve!
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Christmas Cake 2017
Hooray, that’s another little job done. Cake decorated!
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Harps of Gold 2017 – dress rehearsal
Harps of Gold all tinselled up and ready for the concert in the Queen’s Hall, Edinburgh this afternoon. Great fun,
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Sound recording – starting point
I have always played with sound recording, from when I had an ancient (and extremely heavy) reel-to-reel tape recorder as
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Tomten in the Christmas Tree
The tree elf has been to visit and has been busy …
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Edinburgh Shetland Fiddles – at the Diggers
Finishing off a very musical weekend by fiddling with a dozen Edinburgh Shetland Fiddlers, after nyckelharpa at the Fika session
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Harps of Gold 2017 – second rehearsal
Break time in today’s second Harps of Gold rehearsal. Coming along – one more rehearsal plus dress rehearsal to go!
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Glasgow Friday Fika Session
The nyckelharpa has been on a visit to Glasgow, to the Friday Fika session! Lots of tunes, lots of fun.
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Recycling failed Christmas tree lights
Well – repairing old Christmas tree lights gets me back into electronics gently, before I start on the microwave radio
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Edinburgh Scandi Session 5
A great Edinburgh Scandi Session this afternoon. Some people missing, sadly, due to illness but some new faces as well.
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Harps of Gold 2017 – first rehearsal
First rehearsal for the Clarsach Society Edinburgh Branch “Harps of Gold” Christmas concert. One of only about four men there
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Kontrabasharpa really finished – for now, anyway!
Here’s the kontrabasharpa with its new tailpiece. I think it looks somewhat smarter than it did before. Many thanks to
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Scots Fiddle Festival 2017
Addendum 23 Dec 2018: Impromptu Scandi Session in the cafe at the Scots Fiddle Festival in November – finally remembered
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Chromatic nyckelharpa, Fiddle
Fiddle Festival day
A great day with the nyckelharpa at the Scots Fiddle Festival. I played a couple of hour or so sessions
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Fiddle Festival opening concert
The Fiddle Festival starts! Chris came over from the west and came to the opening concert with us; we went
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Tailpiece fitting and assembly
I had to take all the strings of the kontrabasharpa off, of course, to fit the new tailpiece. This gave
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