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Fantastic Free Folk Music

By oneoverphi

Tra­di­tional Music Library is this huge repos­i­tory of folk and tra­di­tional sheet music. I found it whilst look­ing for the music to “Rolling Down to Old Maui” (by-and-by, they also have an excel­lent primer on sea shanties). Songs are catagorised in sec­tions such as: OLD-TIME (OLDTIMEY) MUSIC BLUEGRASS ETHIOPIAN MINSTRELSY, MUSIC-HALL & VAUDAVILLE MUSIC TRADITIONAL DANCE BAWDY & DRINKING SONGS They even have... »

A Christmas Plea

By oneoverphi

For hun­dreds of years ‘The Twelve Days of Christ­mas’ is trot­ted out to blud­geon poor lis­ten­ers into bleary-eyed sub­mis­sion. Like being lost in the desert one prays con­tin­u­ally for the end to come. I hon­estly believe that not a sin­gle soul on the planet likes this song, yet year after year out of a per­verse sense of... »

You Put Your Violin Where?!?

By oneoverphi

Here’s an inter­est­ing thing you can do with a cane, play music on it. I came across in my web trav­els this won­der­ful gad­get cane where­upon a work­ing vio­lin was stuffed into a cane. Now I can’t attest to the sound of it (though I have dug up video on youtube of a Pochette Fid­dle which is very much related to... »

On the Diversity of Musical Production

By oneoverphi

I was taught music back­wards. Like many that toil in the liv­ing room after home­work at an upright piano I ran my fin­gers up and down the scale and arpeg­gios that were pho­to­copied from a book and sent home with me. Tuck in your thumb when you’re not using it. Try with both hands now. While... »

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