Just released, new CD from the Racines: Sound clips and free shipping at this link (as of 10/2): http://www.floydsrecordshop.com/product1.cfm?Product_ID=1561...
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tomandsusan@...
slb22000
Oct 2, 2006 9:37 pm
does this constitute spam? Not that I'm not over there right now listening! Susan B On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:10:55 -0000 "rwroberts4"...
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hyldemoer
Oct 3, 2006 4:57 am
Has anyone here seen this program about the Cajuns <http://www.folkstreams.net/film,125> and if so, do you have any comments about inaccuracies?...
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tomandsusan@...
slb22000
Oct 3, 2006 3:58 pm
Haven't seen it, but am interested in it now. Did you buy the video in order to watch? What inaccuracies did you notice? Would't Alan Lomax be pretty...
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zydeholic
Oct 3, 2006 5:38 pm
Nah. its on topic, and doesn't sound like someone selling it. However, even if it were someone selling it, wouldn't we want to know about something like this?...
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tomandsusan@...
slb22000
Oct 3, 2006 7:05 pm
mais oui! Susan On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 10:32:41 -0700 (PDT) zydeholic <zydeholic@...>...
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zydeholic
Oct 3, 2006 7:26 pm
hot damn t'babe. ... http://www.floydsrecordshop.com/product1.cfm?Product_ID=1561 ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired...
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hyldemoer
Oct 4, 2006 1:44 am
I've come to think of <www.youtube.com> for when I need a "quick fix" of anything. Does anyone here know of videos on Youtube as accurate examples of Cajun...
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hyldemoer
Oct 4, 2006 1:44 am
... An acquaintance down loaded a copy off the internet after I'd mentioned it to him. I'd known about it because over on Banjo-L they mentioned another video...
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hample@...
washboardjungle
Oct 4, 2006 4:02 pm
... I haven't seen the video, or at least I haven't seen it in a long time, and now I'm interested to see it again. But for the record, Alan Lomax was quite a...
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Sue
susiecajun
Oct 14, 2006 4:29 pm
A great-sounding new book has just been put out by UL's Center of Louisiana Studies. It's "Accordions,Fiddles,Two-Step and Swing: A Cajun Music Reader." It's a...
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gregsonnier
Oct 31, 2006 3:36 pm
No not your new borns. I mean your instrument. I haven't seen any prior discussions about the actual fiddle. As cooky as we are about our prized possessions,...
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tomandsusan@...
slb22000
Oct 31, 2006 4:50 pm
Awww. What nice pics, Greg! ;-) Seriously, I enjoyed the commentary at the site as well as the story you posted here. Thanks for sharing. I'd love to hear...
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Betsy Fuller
efuller585
Oct 31, 2006 10:48 pm
Susan - Speaking of Twin Cities - hope you have a chance to get to the UpRiver Fais-Do-Do with the Chicago Cajun Aces & New Riverside Ramblers on November 18....
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Jan Schelpe
jan_schelpe
Nov 17, 2006 3:06 pm
Hello, Last month I bought myself a second fiddle on the internet. A,again, cheapy model which I bought specially for practicing.It's a electric silent fiddle....
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zydeholic
Nov 17, 2006 3:28 pm
I'm not sure if there's a standard. I think strings are used to adjust the individual properties of an instrument. Properties I've heard talked about for a ...
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Jan Schelpe
jan_schelpe
Nov 19, 2006 7:05 pm
Thanks for your opinion Dwight. I found a shop on the internet some time ago that presented their fiddle/violin strings for the type of music you needed them...
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claire
ababeonlegs
Dec 5, 2006 4:22 pm
Did you get a reply to that? Claire Jan Schelpe <deuce_32@...> wrote: Hello, Last month I bought myself a second fiddle on the internet. A,again, ...
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tcouenant
Dec 5, 2006 6:14 pm
I use Helicores, they are bright and last a long time and has a good tone. Thomas....
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gregsonnier
Dec 10, 2006 10:34 pm
I need to try those Helicore strings. The most common strings I see set up on cajun fiddlers around here (Lafayette, LA) are Thomastik Dominant. When i...
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hyldemoer
Dec 11, 2006 4:55 pm
"gregsonnier" <gregsonnier@...> wrote: <snip> ... That I find interesting. The Dominants have a perlon core. They say one doesn't get the ultimate sound out of...
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zydeholic
Dec 11, 2006 5:03 pm
I've got a book/CD called The American Fiddle Method, by Brian Wicklund. It takes some old-time Americana songs and uses them to teach more and more complex...
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hyldemoer
Dec 11, 2006 5:21 pm
I meant to ask, is that with a fiddle designated to be played down and not periodically tuned up (possibly necessitating having a second fiddle for when...
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hyldemoer
Dec 11, 2006 5:43 pm
Hi Dwight, I have Craig Duncan's book. I bought it off the internet. I also bought Deborah Greenblatt's book "The Cajun Fiddle Tune Book". I can read music but...
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zydeholic
Dec 11, 2006 5:44 pm
My solution: get a second fiddle. Otherwise, I don't know which is more forgiving. Seems like either of them is going to get stretched and not recover...
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zydeholic
Dec 11, 2006 5:57 pm
I have both of those books. However, I'm spoiled by the American Fiddle Method book and am looking for something that lends a bit more hand-holding. It comes...
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hyldemoer
Dec 11, 2006 7:41 pm
Where I take group fiddle classes the program is very much against reading music. There's one teacher who will write things out in tab (after teaching the tune...
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zydeholic
Dec 11, 2006 8:00 pm
I essentially play by ear, but need some sheet music or tab to get me by sometimes. ... ...
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Scotty Vidrine
nubarambler
Dec 12, 2006 1:51 pm
Are there any Cajuns that have put out a book of Cajun fiddle songs?? Scotty ...
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zydeholic
Dec 12, 2006 3:11 pm
There's that yellow book, "Ye Yaille chere", by Raymond Francois. Very thick. More songs than Ann Savoy's book, because there's no interviews like in Ann's...
