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Do you play a trad instrument?

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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 40 alomolloy


    Is any one out there interested in starting a trad/Pogues band


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭Tinwhistle*


    Baggio wrote: »
    Good stuff dying to do Horslips mark 2!!!!!

    what ya think gang?? ............ciao' Baggio


    Sounds interesting....


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 13 finnerz1


    i used to play tinwhistle but havent in years. now im learning traditional guitar..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 41 JB.


    Just after starting to play the tenor banjo and must say I love it:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,712 ✭✭✭neil_hosey


    JB. wrote: »
    Just after starting to play the tenor banjo and must say I love it:D

    ~Also started playing the tenor banjo since febuary... and am loving it! Slowly but surely!


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 94 ✭✭52paddy


    I've played Irish banjo for a good few years now. I've also been playing flute for the past while and am decent enough at the whistle.

    If anybody is interested in house sessions, tune sharing or a quiet pub session around Dublin 12 (or within a 3 mile radius), let me know. Would be very interested. Looking for musicians with a decent repertoire for swapping tunes etc :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 31 D0nners


    Im trying to learn the Irish traditional style on the guitar at the moment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,553 ✭✭✭soccymonster


    Play the button accordian. Been playing it for 6 and a half years now. Love it to bits :D.

    Also the tin whistle. Im actually fairly good. Those tin whistle lessons from a few years back have come in handy, i must say :P.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 tapsnilloc@eirc


    I'm playing the mandola since the New Year. I hurt my hand in recent months, so I've been unable to play. Dying to get back to it and to learn new tunes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 Catherine.M


    i play concertina, fiddle and kinda piano...
    need to practice the fiddle though :p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭offaly4sam


    I play guitar for the last 6 years,started off playing rock,but always loved trad music and only recently started to learn to play. Would love to be in a band sometime like the pogues...love that music


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 tapsnilloc@eirc


    Offaly4sam

    I play guitar a bit as well. What kind of trad songs are you playing? Do you work out the chords yourself or pick them up from the internet?

    Tap


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 105 ✭✭offaly4sam


    In reply to tap

    I play mostly ''pub'' songs from the like of the pogues,dubliners,christy etc. Have books at home that my grandmother had from years ago of irish songs and they have the chords in that. What kinda trad you playing yourself


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3 tapsnilloc@eirc


    Offaly4sam

    I try much of the same stuff, not so much of the Pogues, but also a bit of Planxty. I pick up the chords from books, internet, other people.

    Tap


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 19 docaoimh


    I play the uilleann pipes, whistle and flute. Getting my hands on a piano again soon to hopefully do the diploma.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,979 ✭✭✭Vurnon San Benito


    Accordian, Flute and Whistle player here.
    Sure ya can't beat the auld trad.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 453 ✭✭nuttz


    Uilleann pipes, whistle, a small bit out of practice at the moment.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭brousuka


    I play guitar and do a lot of Trad/Folk and pub ballads. Would love to meet up with a fiddle/banjo/whistle player for a few impromptu sessions here and there, Limerick area. Anyone up for it?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭colin29


    Uilleann pipes, whistles, bodhran and I also like to mess around on the banjo


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭brousuka


    colin29 wrote: »
    Uilleann pipes, whistles, bodhran and I also like to mess around on the banjo

    Where do you live colin29?


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 285 ✭✭colin29


    brousuka wrote: »
    Where do you live colin29?

    Vancouver.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 414 ✭✭brousuka


    colin29 wrote: »
    Vancouver.

    Hehehe! your just a bit far from my place then to come over and jam a few tunes!! however a good friend of mine and a good guitar player has just emigrated to Vancouver a couple of months ago! from Adare in County Limerick working there as an engineer. Great place he tells me and certainly the land of opportunity at the moment. Cheers!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Whiskey Devil


    Pretty sure I've answered this before, but here's an updated list..

    Guitar
    Mandolin
    Banjo
    Whistles
    Bodhrán


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 481 ✭✭Jay Pentatonic


    nothing:(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 908 ✭✭✭Whiskey Devil


    Jay1989 wrote: »
    nothing:(


    Only one way to change that!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15 theyellowtinker


    I play Tenor Banjo, Mandolin, Guitar, Tin Whistle & used to play the fiddle alot. I twiddle around a bit on the oul flute..that is of course ..the wooden type!;) Diddle dee ayedle deedle doh..any lilters out there??


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 481 ✭✭Jay Pentatonic


    Only one way to change that!

    ...recently started to save up for a bodhrán I've been looking at for over a year!:D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 Kerbdog123


    started playing the box since sept 09 so about six months feckin' addicted cant seem to leave it down:D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 18 cork94


    I play fiddle..:)

    Got a new one last year.. well, not exactly new..
    Its french 1820..

    Tinwhistle and used to play the concertina too..
    I'm thinking up picking up the concertina again soon.. :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22 Kerbdog123


    how long does it take to get decent on the molodeon?


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