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The Edinburgh Trained Bands' March
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Arrangement of a Scottish guittar duet originally published in 1758 by Bremner, played on a single short-scale (alto tuned) Tacoma Papoose 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.
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Classical Baroque
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#5,042 today Peak #49
#344 in subgenre Peak #7
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David Kilpatrick
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David Kilpatrick
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November 25, 2003
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MP3 3.7 MB 128 kbps 3:59
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Edinburgh cultural and folk historian Jack Campin asked me to play this piece from music original published by Bremner (18th century author of a prominent Scottish guittar tutor). His manuscript was generated from computer ABC notation, and thus already three stages removed; it was also a duet for two guittars tuned CEGCEG. I have reorganised it to suit solo playing on a single alto scale steel string guitar tuned GDGCEA. It is not particularly well-suited to guitar and probably never was, even 250 years ago! A more classical approach, with the substantial and lengthy variations and improvisations common at the time, would give it more interest. But as a duet, it must have been played without such ornaments or experiments. Jack says the march would have been played using fifes, rather like a modern-day Orange band.
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