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Original music for cello banjo.
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Another old Jewish song; this one from an Arabic version I heard on oud. Cello banjo tuned gCGCD.
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Popular Jewish melody of ancient Babylonian origins.
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Size: 4,479kb, uploaded 3/1/2013 2:36:59 PM
Genre: Fiddle/Celtic/Irish / Playing Style: 4-String (Tenor/Plectrum)
First flight with The Soundbird custom Paul Roberts tenor banjo by Gold Tone.
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Sitar improvisation during the first (real) snow we've had in the Southwest Colorado Rockies this season.
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Gold Tone CEB-4 four-string Cello Banjo tuned GDAE, one octave below Irish tenor and octave mandolin.
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Bare finger picking. Silverwound nylon strings on Bob Carlin model.
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4-string cello banjo tuned ADAE, two octaves below fiddle. 2-finger improv.
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Size: 2,455kb, uploaded 7/5/2012 5:54:49 AM
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A middle eastern tune of unknown origin, which I heard somewhere and this is my take. gCGCD. Picking on a 5-string cello banjo, Gold Tone CEB-5.
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Cello banjo, nylon string banjo, banjola. An old Yemenite folk dance tune in double C.
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Please join the discussion on this tune in Sound Off http://www.banjohangout.org/topic/192180 Gypsy Caravan is an original tune I’m composing on 4-string cello banjo, tuned DGDA. Instead of a flatpick I use plastic fingerpicks on thumb and first finger. After experimenting with different tunings, I like to keep this beast tuned GDAE, two octaves below fiddle. On this piece I’m capoed at the fifth fret, putting me the cello range with the fourth string tuned an octave below the second, for a drone. The equivalent tuning in fiddle/mandolin/Irish tenor banjo range is ADAE. The 4-string cello banjo I’m playing is made by Gold Tone, a CEB-4. Marcy Marxer is responsible for igniting the interest that brought cello banjos back into existence, after they had gone done the black hole of (almost) extinction for an amazing number of years. I’m grateful for their reemergence, since both the 4 and 5-string cello banjos are important to maintaining my musical equilibrium. They’re also responsible for my current relationship with Gold Tone as an independent product specialist and dealer - something I had previously never imagined myself getting into. On my website, http://www.banjocrazy.com, I have an interview with Marcy Marxer, entitled, Cello Banjo Pioneer http://www.banjocrazy.com/articles/armarcy2.shtml I hope you enjoy the tune. Cheers, PauL
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Genre: Bluegrass / Playing Style: Bluegrass (Scruggs)
Original Cello Banjo 3-finger picking Tuning: A C# A B E
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a Mantovana is a sixteenth century song composed by the Italian tenor Giuseppe Cenci, also known as Giuseppino del Biado, (d. 1616). Its earliest known appearance in print is in del Biado's 1600 collection of madrigals. The melody, later also known as "Ballo di Mantova" or "Aria di Mantova" gained wide currency in Renaissance Europe, being recorded variously as the Scottish “My mistress is prettie,” the Polish “Pod Krakowem,” Spanish "Virgen de la Cueva" and the Ukrainian “Kateryna Kucheryava." It is best-known as the melody of Bed"5;ich Smetana's The Moldau and of the Israeli national anthem Hatikvah. I added the third part, in case old Giuseppe lifted the original riff from a raga, which I - of course - suspect:)
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Genre: Folk / Playing Style: Clawhammer and Old-Time
Gold Tone 5-string Cello Banjo tuned gCGCD Hava Nagila הבה נגילה is a Hebrew folk song, the title meaning "let us rejoice". It is a song of celebration, especially popular amongst Jewish and Romani communities, and is a staple of band performers at Jewish festivals. The melody was taken from a Ukrainian folk song from Bukovina. Hava Nagila is often played to accompany the horah, a type of circle dance originating in the Balkans but also found in other countries. It became a national dance in Israel, having been brought to Israel by the Romanian settlers in the second half of the 19th century. In the early days, Horah was popular mainly in the Kibbutzim and small communities. Later it became a must in group dances throughout Israel, and at weddings and other celebrations by Jews in Israel, the United States and Canada. The dance appeared in North America in the early 20th century, well before modern Israeli independence, brought directly from Eastern Europe by Jewish immigrants. At bar and bat mitzvahs, it is custom to raise the honoree and his or her family members on a chair during the horah. This is also done nowadays at many Jewish weddings, following the Israeli tradition. To start the dance, everybody forms a circle, holding hands, and steps forward toward the right with the left foot, then follows with the right foot. The left foot is then brought back, followed by the right foot. This is done while holding hands and circling together in a fast and cheerful motion to the right. Large groups allow for the creation of several concentric circles.
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Cello Banjola
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I heard this fiddle tune in the early 60s on The New New Lost City Ramblers album Gone to the Country. It's not quite the way they play it, just how it decided to roll out of my banjo. You can hear a sample of their version and the other album tracks at http://www.smithsonianglobalsound.org/trackdetail.aspx?itemid=6809
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Written/Posted by Paul Roberts
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This little melody came to me this evening as my soul was needing some nourishment. 5-string cello banjo - tuned octave Double C, using a bone frailing pick. Tomorrow I'll try some overdubbing.
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I put some new strings on my cello banjo.
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Original tune played in octave double-D on Gold Tone Bob Carlin BC-350 strung with metal-wound nylon strings.
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