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Out of the Bag
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The baglama is a tiny Greek bouzouki family instrument about the size of a large spoon. It sounds like a soprano machine gun and it's great for renaissance-celtic modal jamming. This is a little piece to help persuade other musicians to try it!
singer songwriter acoustic folk british guitarist song celtic traditional fingerstyle scottish scotland guitar kelso
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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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World World General
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#3,728 in subgenre Peak #15
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Peak #45
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David Kilpatrick
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David Kilpatrick
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November 25, 2003
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MP3 1.6 MB 128 kbps 1:45
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I found this little fellow in Corfu town. It isn't a tourist product; you can buy unplayable example for a few dollars, but this is around $60 and it's hand-carved in one piece from mulberry wood, with a spruce top and a fingerboard of an unspecified local hardwood. The d'd, aa, dd double course tuning uses really high tension, and don't be fooled by the volume of a recording - a baglama played in anger can seriously hurt your ears. Of course, this is not the kind of music they are intended for, but then I didn't buy it in order to play 'rembetica' Greek folk tunes. I bought to blow away fiddlers and bagpipe players in Scottish and Irish sessions, and it does the job fine...
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