DetlefS’s two hundred and twenty-seven comments

My main experience of playing for dancers is Set Dancing. Their main critique is ‘too slow!’ for reels, too fast only for polkas. Otherwise they are mainly happy that they have live music instead of a CD. We got constructive critique from the dance te... more…

The string spacing on my fiddle is 15 mm (5 mm between two strings). That means 1.25 mm smaller than the standard. I only realized that my fiddle has such a small non standard neck a few years ago, when i played the fiddle of a friend. For me it felled a... more…

The set dancers i play for wouldn't really know how fast or slow our playing is befor they start to dance, so counting on them in the first 8 bars is no option. And for scottish country dance their is only a chord, before the dance starts. more…

There is a similar app for android, called LiveBPM. more…

Thanks for the info CMO. I always thought, the 2-part and the 4-part Version share the same name. more…

The third tune is Cathleen Hehir’s more…

There's also The Reverend's ABC Tune Search page: more…

@whimbrel "I’ve sometimes wondered if these playing Shetland tunes had an interest in Scandinavian tunes..." more…

I have a Slingerland May Bell Banjo and a Bacon & Day Super. more…

Another happy or humourus song would be Kitty McGee, sung here by Tommy Makem: more…