Seasons of the Ukulele

A weekly song challenge for ukulele players - all welcome. Find out more here

Seasonistas Play Other Instruments

DelGriff

And here’s another old favourite thread - originally created by @BEV (yes, she is lurking here somewhere!) for those with musical talents beyond the uke to display their prowess and versatility. Don’t be shy!

OneManAndHisPGUke

Is she? Oh man that’s great! Hi Lynda wherever you are!!! Hope to see you doing something at some point. You’ve been missed 👍

OneManAndHisPGUke

And many thanks DelGriff for setting this up 👍

CanadaJim

Thanks Del. Hoping to hear that wonderful wind instrument appearing soon in this thread. A bit of keyboard too.

MsBean

I created a playlist with sound samples of my flutes today. The first flute-a renaissance tenor flute -is new to me, and I'm still figuring out the best fingerings. This flute was built by John Cousen, an instrument maker from around Manchester who passed away in 2014.

If you listen to the piccolo sample, make sure you turn the volume down. I never used ear protection when I was a teen, and have some tinnitus as a result.

Renaissance-Man

John played "The Cherry Tree Carol" for the holiday season, and the way he played it on baritone ukulele reminded me of similarities in how I play this tune on guitar. I wanted John to hear what I was talking about in my YouTube comments.

"According to the book The Makers of the Sacred Harp, by David Warren Steel and Richard H. Hulan, the lyrics were published in 1858 in Joseph Bever's Christian Songster, which was a collection of popular hymns and spiritual songs of the time. During and for several years after the American Civil War, the lyrics were known as the Libby Prison Hymn." Wikipedia

MikeM

I got myself an OMNICHORD! https://suzukimusic-global.com/products_single.php?products_cd=321

CanadaJim

I hope these don't have to be new videos recorded especially for this thread. I recorded this one a couple of years ago for a Facebook group called Old Guitar Pickers. (Either the pickers or the guitars can be old. In this case both were, but while the picker was 78, the guitar was only 72. They are now two years older.) The guitar is the instrument I play the most, but the ukulele is pretty close.
Let Him Roll by Guy Clark played on a 1950 Gibson LG1.

CanadaJim

Here's a recording of me - clawhammer banjo, Al Kirby - Scruggs style banjo and Zeke Mazurek - fiddle playing a song dedicated to my darlin' lovely wife - When You And I Were Young Maggie.
https://www.banjohangout.org/myhangout/media-player/audio_player2.asp?musicid=1153&archived=

elmann

Happy New Year, folks! Although not beeing that active at the moment I appreciate very, very much the new forum, a big THANK YOU to the initiators!

Beside the uke I try to play another 4 string, have a glimpse to the companies xmas dinner with our band
(YT-channel for band/ensemble activities, unlisted)

Half of the bunch (enthusiastic part) https://photos.app.goo.gl/cc4yoai4b6iMKb3e7

LimousinLil

elmann Great stuff, Heinz and "Huppebein"! (You now have another subscriber!)

elmann

LimousinLil Happy New Year, Valerie, I hope you're fine, stay healthy! Huppebein ("hoppy leg", once did trampolining) I use normally/only for rehearsals, seldom used.

It's so nice to have another forum now!

CanadaJim

SCOTCH & SODA

Here's another guitar piece, done in the style of my first guitar hero, Jackie Washington. I'm using a flat pick this time on the old Gibson with no open chords.
This one was done for the Old Guitar Pickers Facebook Page when the featured artists were The Kingston Trio.

CanadaJim

I found the only video I have of myself playing Autoharp on the porch of the Lang Pioneer Village General Store. Al Kirby and I played there each summer for a number of years.
This is Grandfather's Clock. I lost the pick from my bird finger part way through and said, "Damn!". Sorry 'bout that.

CanadaJim

About five years ago, I borrowed an Epiphone 12-string guitar from my brother Bob. I intended to return it in a couple of weeks, then COVID and the lock-down prevented me from doing that and I ended up keeping it for about a year.
Here's a Carl Martin tune played on brother Bob's 12-string guitar. Sorry it's a bit buzzy.

CanadaJim

Maggie and I played our first open mic at a folk club 39 years ago. This was before I started playing ukulele, and before I sang in public. We were both pretty nervous and as a result, I tend to play way too fast when I'm nervous (Maybe I just want to get it over with, I don't know.) When we came off stage Maggie said that she had trouble catching her breath.
I played banjo for one song and guitar for two; Maggie played guitar and sang.
When You And I Were Young - Johnson & Butterfield
You Are My Flower - Carter Family
Big Enough For Two - Lyn Hardy & Jay Unger

One of the organisers of the club is now a close friend and on my 80th birthday, he gave me a tape of our first performance. I think we may have clipped a couple of seconds off the world record for the first two songs.
Sorry 'bout the sound quality. This was recorded on my phone from a cheap cassette player. The newspaper clipping was at a later performance at the same folk club - FOLK AT THE FORUM in Cobourg, Ontario.

Here is the video with the pictures that Del was kind enough to add for us.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sFfiM0CryYD_MFDNKZXyZLfgzEbMcFoo/view?usp=drivesdk

CanadaJim

How difficult would it be to add some photos to the above video?

DelGriff

CanadaJim

Do you use any video editing software, Jim?

Otherwise, if you’d like to send me the pics by email, I can extract the audio track from your YouTube video, add the pics to it, and send it over for you to post on your channel. Let me know?

UkingViking

CanadaJim

Great stuff!

Do you have some kind of computer with an audio line in available? In that case you could probably connect the headphone Jack from the cassette player to the computer and use Audacity to get the audio directly from the tape without depending on the speakers of the cassette player and the mic of the phone.

But that would probably need to be either a desktop computer or one with and external sound card/interface.

Anyway, the recorded audio does sound quite decent as is, so that would just be if you like experiments 😆