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Yesterday I have played some tunes that I have found on the site of the Scottish Fiddle School in Boston some time ago. Especially the first tune in the 2003 collection is a great tune that I like to play – “The Warlocks”. I have found two youtube videos of the piece: The Warlocks Strathspey [...]

Durning my holidays this year I had taken with me a book from which I like to play every now and then: 300 Fiddle Tunes – Fiddle Songbooks published by Hal Leonard. This book is a collection of 300 Irish pieces for fiddle or mandolin, and almost every piece in this collection sounds great and [...]

In the Library of Congress you can find sheet music for mandolin and guitar. This includes many arrangements of marches by John Philip Sousa for mandolin and guitar, 2 mandolins and guitar or mandolin and piano. There are also severals other pieces from the period around 1900. In this post I have compiled the first [...]

Every year in August there is a  Scottish Fiddle School on the Thompson Island close to Boston. For one week you can learn how to play fiddle in the Scottish style, but there are also courses for guitar, cello or bagpipes, and the fiddle style of Cape Breton. On the website of the Scottish Fiddle [...]