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This is beautiful and you play with real feeling. I am learning this (I play the piano accordion) Your feeling certainly come through, thank you

Norman

noelclownhall 8 months ago

@noelclownhall - Thank you for your kind remark. :-)

isabellanakahara 8 months ago

Isabella, that was beautiful!

George

pastore0506 1 year ago

@pastore0506 -- Thank you, George!

isabellanakahara 1 year ago

this is beautiful!

katie7706 1 year ago

@katie7706 - Thanks, Katie!

isabellanakahara 1 year ago

Wow! Great job! I just discovered your channel! You've posted some great tunes there especially this one. I have been meaning to learn stern of the boat on the mandolin for a few weeks now after listening to Carl MacKenzie's fiddle version. Now maybe I'll do the mandola instead it seems fit for the lower register! That sure is an interesting shaped viola.

Cheers!

Mandolin1944 1 year ago

@Mandolin1944 -Thanks for stopping by to listen. I think this would be a really neat tune for mandolin or mandola. I hope you post it sometime. Let me know, I would love to hear it!

isabellanakahara 1 year ago

@isabellanakahara I see you have posted several of the Gow lamentations. I also posted one of them on the mandolin.

Mandolin1944 1 year ago

This air is so beautiful on your viola, rich and warm. One would just KNOW this is a Scottish tune.

danldunham 1 year ago

@danldunham -Thank you so much for your wonderful comment! You just made my day! :-)

isabellanakahara 1 year ago

@danldunham -Thank you so much for your wonderful comment! You just made my day! :-)

isabellanakahara 1 year ago

just great - having found your site.

Because i liked scottish music so much, i started again to play violin aged 57 - after 40+ years.

I learned viola too and i like the warmer, deeper sound more and i am happy, that it is also possible to play these pieces with it. My technic is poor as a beginner, but the feeling is strong.

Here i can at least hear how these should be played - if only for myself. Thank you.

nurdieh555 2 years ago

Nurdieh,

Thank you so much for your generous and very kind remarks. I appreciate them, very much.

Scottish music is wonderful and beautiful.

Thanks for stopping by.

isabellanakahara 2 years ago

i like this tune. it sounds nice with lots of violins together. you should get some friends together and play it with them!

gen65743 2 years ago

Yeah, it is a lovely tune. I bet it does sound nice with lots of violins.

Thanks for stopping by.

isabellanakahara 2 years ago

Such a beautiful sounding instrument and you play it SO well :)

lambhoga 2 years ago

Thanks again!!

:-)

isabellanakahara 2 years ago

Thanks! .... and I really like this particular viola, too! It is a modern instrument... made in 2001, but it has a very nice sound. I wish I could hear it 200 years from now, lol!!

What do you like playing on the viola?

isabellanakahara 2 years ago

ah, just poured a malt and melted into

this air. utopia

billmacaulay 3 years ago

ooooooo..... a malt... sounds pretty dang good to me, Bill! :-)

isabellanakahara 3 years ago

Very nice Brinn..

mountnmonkey 3 years ago

Thank you, Ron. :-)

isabellanakahara 3 years ago

Boy it is alot bigger then a fiddle, is it harder to play? Sounds like a great way to spend Robbie Burns day!

Burfordfiddler1962 3 years ago

Well, it was what I originally started out on... but when I started playing violin/fiddle this summer and then went back to playing the viola after not touching it for a number of months, it was a bit of an adjustment... It takes some getting used to.

And, yeah... a great way to spend Robbie burns day!

isabellanakahara 3 years ago

hello isabella

what a fantastic piece of music - you play so well and the tone from the viola is wonderful. Do you have the music and is it postable -or where can I get it

regards

an envious mick

mixedmyth 3 years ago

A lovely tune and so well played. You are so talented!

carrolly2k 3 years ago

Thank you Jim! I appreciate your encouragement. My fingers(AARP fingers) are finally starting to loosen up a bit after my 20 year hiatus!

;-)

isabellanakahara 3 years ago

Brinn....I listened to this as I was about to shut down the computer for the night...seemed almost like a lullaby....calmed the spirit.

MissPickletoes 3 years ago

Thanks Miss P. It is a lovely melody....

isabellanakahara 3 years ago

Very good - very nice Scottish ornaments too !!

(and pulling-back on the vibrato as well !)

Any problems switching back & forth between viola & violin ? The lower notes could come in handy !! Every considered a 5-string violin (with that lower C string ?

jkvideo42 3 years ago

well, hi there! Yeah... I have ben much more... mindful of vibrato. Right now I seem to be doing ok with switching back and forth... I played a "chin cello" last weekend at a Scottish fiddle retreat my teacher put on... he had one of those chin cellos... it was an absolute riot playing a viola sized instrument and hearing cello sounds coming from it. A five string could be interesting. I am really having fun! Glad to hear from you. comment any time! :-)

isabellanakahara 3 years ago

Hmm .. chin-cello .. I'll have to look into that. Do these have really thick strings ? I've never tried one.

jkvideo42 3 years ago

Ok .. jumped into a real tangent. Is your Scottish music wriiten in the viola (c) clef, or the g clef ?

What do they do for violas - is the music generally written-out on the viola clef (down a 5th, I believe).

Also looked at octave strings (for violin) - might try those - but they don't appear to be cheap !

jkvideo42 3 years ago

Most of the time I am merely playing the viola as if it were a violin, so a 5th down... Sometimes viola parts are written an octave down.

Yeah, you could certainly try the octave strings.... but I was told that it will not sound the same. The chin cellos are made especially to have those "cello" strings on them... I noticed that the ribs were quite a bit thicker... perhaps the sound post and base bar might be a bit stouter??? not sure... if I had an extra $400.00 laying around... :-)

isabellanakahara 3 years ago