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Troubadour Rag
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A little sort-of-ragtime piece, capod at 5, on a Troubadour Blondel cittern-guitar fitted with a Pickup the World pickup.
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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.
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Peak #251
Peak in subgenre #37
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David Kilpatrick
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David Kilpatrick
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February 07, 2008
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MP3 3.6 MB 320 kbps 3:57
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Allan Hodge asked me to fit a pickup into a Troubadour Blondel cittern-guitar, with a view to ragtime playing. This is a the result of the pickup fitting, and a sort of baroque-rag written while checking out the guitar before sending it to him. I don't claim to play ragtime, and it's in my usual drop D tuning with the capo bringing the pitch up. The PUTW No 27 sensor is fitted to the main cross brace (not to on the top wood of the guitar) right in front of the bridge. It has been put through a Trace Elliott TAP-1 preamp with no EQ or notch applied, then a Yamaha mixer, again all set to neutral, and recorded on a Roland VS880EX digital recorder as a mono track. Preset effects 'Reverb' and 'Dual Compressor/Limiter' have been applied, both post-fade, both at 50 per cent send level, both with no tweaking. The compressor slightly emphasises the very rapid transient nail sounds on the strings - this is not so evident using an acoustic amp direct.
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