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An original instrumental in DADGAD tuning written for and played on my new Lowden S35C ziricote/cedar guitar

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Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.

I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.

Song Info

Genre

Acoustic • Acoustic Guitar

Charts

Peak #14

Peak in subgenre #5

Author

David Kilpatrick

Rights

David Kilpatrick 2005

Uploaded

April 05, 2005

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.7 MB • 192 kbps • 4:01

Story behind the song

This track is an exploration of the 'dark' sound of the Lowden ziricote/cedar small body, short scale guitar used in DADGAD tuning with Newtone 12-52 Masterclass phosphor-bronze strings. There is a contrast between this and 'Roxburgh Castle' recorded a few days earlier using the Elixir Nanoweb strings supplied on the guitar, which produce a very bright level of overtones and high harmonics from the bass. The Newtone strings have an 'edge' which is lacking in the chiming sound of the Elixir 80/20 bronze poly coated strings, but the trebles are also very different in sound and feel. The song title comes from what I felt about the sound of the guitar after this; like an 'obsidian razor' was the image which came out. The sound is via two condensor mics from a fair distance, a pencil mic closer to the guitar aimed at the lower bout, and a large diaphragm mic positioned a couple of feet away. The sound is unprocessed by normal standards though one mic has a small amount of compression and the whole track has been normalized to ensure a good sound level, with noise reduction to remove a slight hiss from the recorder's hard disk.

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