Favorite Session Instrument
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Singers.
The first instrument. The only one common to every musical tradition.
So under-represented at sessions...
The first instrument. The only one common to every musical tradition.
So under-represented at sessions...
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Mandolin
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Fiddle, which is possibly odd since I don't play fiddle but can play whistle, flute, banjo, mandolin, and bouzouki. I often think maybe it's BECAUSE I don't play it that it's my favorite.
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I'm with you Thomaston. I only want to play the flute but good fiddle playing bends my heart.
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Anything played competently - but I'm fine with beginners who are keen to learn on any instrument [ more or less ].
One guitar - no more.
One bodhran - no more.
.... and I love it when another flute player turns up unexpectedly.
One guitar - no more.
One bodhran - no more.
.... and I love it when another flute player turns up unexpectedly.
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You did ask about 'in a session', I have to admit I am stumped! Sweet harmony :0) One time I was over the moon about Banjos, then one hit me on the head! Not over the moon about it anymore. But it is hard not to get drawn to a good fiddler.
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I like to play the guitar but playing drum is also my passion when i playing any tune with my group fellow.
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I'm a flute player, and when a session's getting largish I love sitting next to a banjo player. That crisp, plunky sound brings all the other instruments, as well as the shape of the tune, into focus--especially in a reel.
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Woodwinds and bodhrans, and really good fiddles.
The local group is about 60% fiddles, with maybe four whistlers or flautists.
Also, the band Ballydowse did some very nice things with a didgeridoo.
The local group is about 60% fiddles, with maybe four whistlers or flautists.
Also, the band Ballydowse did some very nice things with a didgeridoo.
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Necroposting, but what the heck.
For backup, a tastefully played harp or piano, please. Or even a little raunchy Cape Breton style for the piano.
For melody, pipes, boxes, fiddles, other flutes.
For backup, a tastefully played harp or piano, please. Or even a little raunchy Cape Breton style for the piano.
For melody, pipes, boxes, fiddles, other flutes.
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The greatest arrangement of Strayaway Child ever by the way.An Draighean wrote:I have a Chieftains record with a didgeridoo coming in on one of the later repetitions of The Strayaway Child and I think it sounds good; makes it kind of spooky. Don't remember who plays it though. I'll grant there's not many other tunes I'd want to hear it on though.s1m0n wrote:I'm not sure that I've ever heard a didge make a welcome contribution to anything, frankly.sfmans wrote: ...but the guy who turned up to our predominantly G/D session with a didgeridoo pitched somewhere around the Eb region made a, er, unique contribution ...
As far as the original question goes, I love to see/hear a button accordion in a session.
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For me it's gotta be the tenor banjo, bodhran, and then a button box. I love a good bodhran player who can keep a beat for everyone, the squeezeboxes just have a unique sound I think you don't get from other session instruments, and kind of the same thing for the banjo, I just love that twang.