Favorite Session Instrument
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Favorite Session Instrument
So this is a fun question:
What is the instrument that you enjoy the most when present at a session? Doesn't even have to be anything unique. Maybe there's a particular sound not heard often that really punches in when played well, or maybe there's a more ubiquitous instrument that you would sorely miss were a representative not there.
Any takers?
What is the instrument that you enjoy the most when present at a session? Doesn't even have to be anything unique. Maybe there's a particular sound not heard often that really punches in when played well, or maybe there's a more ubiquitous instrument that you would sorely miss were a representative not there.
Any takers?
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Re: Favorite Session Instrument
PIPES! What else is there?
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Re: Favorite Session Instrument
Any session I'm in will have pipes by default. Therefore, I would choose fiddle with accordion as a close second.
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"... you discover that everything is just right: the drones steady and sonorous, the regulators crisp and tuneful and the chanter sweet and responsive. ... I really look forward to those five or six days every year." Robbie Hannan
Re: Favorite Session Instrument
Bedside pipes, tenor banjo,flute,fiddle,squeezeeee boxes, and whistles, and then some rhythm.
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Re: Favorite Session Instrument
Few sessions near me have flute players, there's always fiddlers and accordion players and loads of guitars and other stringed monsters so when I bring my flute it feels appreciated, just as well cos I dont have an accordion anymore.
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Re: Favorite Session Instrument
Aside from my own instrument (the flute), I really enjoy when button accordion players show up to the session, and I feel the world needs more of them.
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Re: Favorite Session Instrument
Flute and whistle... and I also really enjoy playing tenor banjo.
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Re: Favorite Session Instrument
Whistle.
The mind is like a parachute; it only works when it is open.
Heres a few tunes round a table, first three sets;
http://soundcloud.com/fiddlerwill/werty
http://soundcloud.com/fiddlerwill/jigs-willie
http://soundcloud.com/fiddlerwill/jigs
Heres a few tunes round a table, first three sets;
http://soundcloud.com/fiddlerwill/werty
http://soundcloud.com/fiddlerwill/jigs-willie
http://soundcloud.com/fiddlerwill/jigs
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Re: Favorite Session Instrument
I was going to say hurdy-gurdy, because I love French dance music and really enjoy playing it with people who know how to punch the rhythms out on a gurdy.
But actually I think I'm actually fairly instrument-agnostic; so long as everyone's acceptably in tune and acceptably competent, I think the best sessions are those where there's a selection of instruments, with no more than two or three of any one particular instrument.
I was also going to say that I couldn't think of an instrument that I wouldn't welcome in a session, 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 ...
But actually I think I'm actually fairly instrument-agnostic; so long as everyone's acceptably in tune and acceptably competent, I think the best sessions are those where there's a selection of instruments, with no more than two or three of any one particular instrument.
I was also going to say that I couldn't think of an instrument that I wouldn't welcome in a session, 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 ...
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Re: Favorite Session Instrument
Whistle.
Seems like Irish Traditional Music is creeping into World Music where anything goes with any instrument/implement.
Seems like Irish Traditional Music is creeping into World Music where anything goes with any instrument/implement.
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Re: Favorite Session Instrument
I'm not sure that I've ever heard a didge make a welcome contribution to anything, frankly. Hypothetically, I suppose, it'd be excellent punctuation for a f*rt joke.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 ...
And now there was no doubt that the trees were really moving - moving in and out through one another as if in a complicated country dance. ('And I suppose,' thought Lucy, 'when trees dance, it must be a very, very country dance indeed.')
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Re: Favorite Session Instrument
Guinness....
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Best wishes.
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Re: Favorite Session Instrument
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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