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Some days ago I have made a new video with one movement from the Partita II in G major by Georg Philipp Telemann. I have played this Partita for many years now, and every now and then I have liked to play the movements from this Partita on the mandolin. The key of G major [...]

Merry Christmas to all readers! If you have some time you can visit my Picksibition with pictures, postcard albums and more! http://www.mandoisland.de/picks.html

Google has included the search for the oud – the Arabian lute – to the Holiday Logo for Christmas  2010. It’s great that google has added this search for an inmportan plucked instrument that is played all over the Middle East. Wikipedia about the oud: The oud (Arabic: عود‎ ʿūd, plural:أعواد, a‘wād; Assyrian:ܥܘܕ ūd, Persian: [...]

On the homepage of the Musical Instruments Museum I have found a video by the Acadian group Vishtèn who will play a concert in January in this museum. I was immediately hit by this video,  and I decided to find out more about this group. Vishtèn was founded about 10 years ago and is located [...]