This is fun. Another instrument that was only vaguely on my radar.
Since I love middle eastern music :
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eua50lKA0I&feature=relatedoud
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6-MV6ba8sw&feature=relatedgrand daddies of the Spanish guitar
>That was really cool! Here is one of my favorite instruments. I actually had an African thumb harp in my younger years, but never got really good at it (before it was stolen, along with my flute):
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLBWh8Gt53g>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVMZOZtG2o0>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj7jJA-RJto&feature=related>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abTlNLeFpgo&feature=related>
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>>Great stuff, but I want to learn to play the bodhran:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ChbigufBC8>>Amazing what he can do with a single beater.
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>>>>>>>>>>"They weren't really a hippie band....."
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>>>>>>>>>uhhhh...I think they were like the biggest hippie band of all time!
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>>>>>>>>Well.... Jefferson Airplane???
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>>>>>>>Airplane yes Starship no. Red Octopus was the last of the greatness.
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>>>>>>Ahh... Papa John. Although, I have to admit to never having been all that enamoured of Starship. In fact, I very nearly fell out of love with Grace.
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>>>>>That was some crazy fiddlin', no? Another magic night at Winterland. I can hear Grace "Hold a dollar bill up to the mirror ... and I'll show you something funny ..." Those were the days when I was driving too fast for my headlights.
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>>>>I love good fiddlin'. Give me a Joe Venuti, Stuff Smith, Stephane Grappelli, or Natalie McMaster any time.
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>>>And Svend Amundsen and Vassar Clemens. ( I even like a lot of Charlie Daniels )
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCvi58-BnPg>>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnepPZChA5U>>>
>>>and of course Darol Anger ( Grappelli loved him)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJA5aTDFWgc&feature=related>>>
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKn-LLQ29hk&feature=related>>>
>>>Grisman used have on stage both Anger and Mark O'Connor
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x05z27blg80&feature=PlayList&p=5A2ADB48C4DF6E2E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=27>>>
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aF8iF4k2hE>>>
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HvI3QOZyVws&feature=related>>>
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUjfWW9CMfM&feature=related>>>
>>>and then add a Yo Yo ....
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-bok3otfMs&feature=related
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