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I somehow made this English holiday tune sound Andean by using recorders. I didn't own a foeddle (bass) yet, so I plucked my foddle (cello) for a bass ostinato. Tim Daniels of Leavenworth, Kansas (my pal who inspired me to learn the fiddle) played fiddle, faddle (viola), mandolin, mandola, a lap zither (kind of like an autoharp sans chording bars), and I also played four sizes of recorders, an alto flute (sorry, I don't have a bass recorder) and guitar. The guitar isn't showcased here, but at least it takes it home at the end. It's the guitar in my avatar picture, but before I stripped out the preamp and the equalizer. The arrangement was basically built on the bass ostinato, played on the foddle for lack of a foeddle. With the exception of the final cadence, the guitar just underscored the ostinato. Next we layered in the melody and harmony tracks of the recorders and alto flute, and the fiddle and faddle. Tim then added the mandolin, mandola, and zither. We used Cakewalk software to record and organize the whole thing. Tim is really good at extemporizing accompaniments and cadences. He imagines something, and because he has perfect pitch, he just goes ahead and does it on the spot. Me, I have to think about it ahead of time and noodle it out first. Tim is a musical genius.
deleuran Says:
Saturday, October 11, 2008 @3:23:27 AM
Hey Michael.
What a great piece of music. It was a little hesitant (or what's the word?) in the beginning, but when it got going the going got good. 5/5
The zither is a rare thing these days, and isn't it hard to play? I have a CD with Anton Karas, the great zither player who made the soundtrack for the movie "The Third Man". I love to listen to that.
Jesper
FingerPicker Says:
Saturday, October 11, 2008 @7:22:32 AM
Yes, I think that my friend's zither is hard to play because the strings seem to be very close to each other with little margin for error. It is an odd instrument that doubles as a bowed zither, as the outside strings are near the edge and of different lengths to facilitate their bowing, and my friend Tim sometimes does that, especially for the Christmas carol We Three Kings.
Yes, hesitant is a good word to describe how it started. Perhaps tentative would be a better word.
I'm glad you like it. It is an odd piece, but with a surprising amount of charm. It certainly sounds different then I imagined before we recorded.
brynmawr Says:
Monday, January 12, 2009 @3:56:26 AM
What a delightful piece of music! Thanks.
Tom Smith Says:
Tuesday, January 13, 2009 @9:34:02 AM
Very interesting. Well done.
Humbled Says:
Wednesday, February 11, 2009 @11:11:47 AM
Nice! I'm just waiting for Axel Rose to sing something to it...(sorry--I have a strange sense of humour!) But, really, Michael, this is awesome. And thanks for the "notes" to the song. I'm now looking up "ostinato".... I think it's a town just outside of Phoenix. Oh, okay, it's a repeated musical motif. Good. (And I just hit the replay to hear it again.) What beautiful and varied timbres! Record more stuff for us, Michael--
Humbled
twayneking Says:
Sunday, July 20, 2014 @9:09:57 AM
We going to get any more recordings? That was nice.
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