Can I play this instrument in that style of music?

It always bugs me when people ask this question, the answer is always… YES!

http://youtu.be/yu-6TddbeWA

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Just stumbled across this video, and in fact this guys entire channel of him playing trad on his 5 string banjo. I just love it, I’m sure if he turned up to a session, he would get some puzzled looks at first, but after Hearing him play, he’d fit right in obviously.

Of course, your gonna have a hard time showing up to a session and being heard playing a ukulele at a full blown session, but you CAN play real irish music on one. It’s not the instrument its the artist! Some instruments are better suited for one style or the other, but they all make music

Depends who’s hands it’s in.

All except the didgeri-don’t. 🙂 Someone posted a video, I think it was on this site, of someone rocking a set of jigs on an instrument I had never heard of called a Khaen from Indo-China. Here it is again, like something from the Cantina scene in Star Wars.

http://youtu.be/yzlcK7CGdGI

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^Dan the Man with the Khaen - he’s a legend. And a good whistle player too… and a gentleman to boot.

Yes he is. Lovely fella. Good musician.

Wonderful music, but ---
Could use a little rhythm back up.

A pair of chopsticks, perhaps?
😏

In any case, very well done.

“I just love it, I’m sure if he turned up to a session, he would get some puzzled looks at first, but after Hearing him play, he’d fit right in obviously.”

He would get some very very puzzled looks, given that he resides in Heaven these days. Dave died not to long ago of cancer, I understand.

Cheers.

Matt

Stok, that was lovely. Apart from the melody, I can’t help but notice the tone. So different when playing well away from the bridge, contrasted with the close-to-the bridge hard-picking on the 4-string tenor, with often brash and drill-sounding on those triplets 🙂

I’ve followed Dave’s playing for many years. He sometimes joined the session in the Huntsman in Salisbury, where I used to play some years back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=OqF453S8XGM

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No.
Absolutely not.
We must draw the line somewhere.

I consider this instrument a serious threat to all we so tightly cling to in hard-core, reactionary
folk circles - get it out of here, out with it, out I say!!

What’ll we be letting in next?
Saxaphones?
Electric pianos?
(fume)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZBgY9fplCU

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🙂 🙂

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=GhjQMyJw8Mw

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John Ryan’s with the Shamisen?

http://youtu.be/e4eOZExcBUo

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I’d play with this interesting fellow any day/night.

Well, there were already saxophones in ceili bands waaaaay back in the day (1930s, maybe). Whether or not it was a good idea…

Seriously, I rather like “At The Racket”, although, like many others bands I enjoy,
it is not absolutely always what I am in the mood for.
(See current other discussions regarding, “Do you ONLY listen to/play traditional?”)

Sometimes it works for the listener, sometimes it might not.
You decide:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0UPIagJce0w

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgbo0WE6IQI

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9rKarsm4r0

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psXXMwPDTAo

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or:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnT8iKZNZAw

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(little like a really really flat chanter?)

I take this subject VERY seriously.
Really, I do.
😏

Up here in Cape Breton I hear a fair amount of banjo. And djembe. And so on. There’s even some insurgent who plays reels on bass clarinet. Oh, right; that’s me.