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Gerry Harrington with an Irish Slow Air

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Uploaded by on Jun 14, 2008

Fiddle player Gerry Harrington plays a slow air: "Her Mantle so Green" which was recorded by the famous singer Maggie Barry.

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  • @sethkar tbh I asked the same thing myself a few months ago :D

  • @dwaynedibbly Yeah it does get tiresome when it seems to be discussed everywhere on the interwebs :) but I know a lot of people who genuinely don't understand that fiddling is just a style. From an outsiders point of view that confusion can be understandable; so I like to clarify it for people.

  • @sethkar not THIS discussion again :D

  • there is nothing like a bit of scratch and scrape! brings a bit of feeling in to it, and ads a bit of rawness thats lacking in folk music at the minute. thumbs up for sure!!

  • @kodikodiful a violin is a fiddle. Most classical players will call their instrument a violin. Fiddlers call it a fiddle. But you get fiddlers who'll call their fiddle a violin on occasion. There is the Hardanger fiddle; but that's for a specific niche of fiddling. Before I started playing fiddle a few years back I was confused whether a fiddle was setup differently to a violin; but that's up to the player, they tend not to be. Fiddler's aren't tied to classical rules, and usually learn by ear.

  • @ kodikodiful - pause at 3:07. Bridge is as flat as it needs to be. I am an Irish fiddler and I say I could jam with this guy any day. To all the haters; post a video response next time with your fiddle and bow and do better.

  • ouch!

  • i play a lot of violin and that looks like a violin not a fiddle? the bridge looks curved not flat?

  • I think the scratchy parts and being slightly off-pitch in places is on purpose --- gives a raw folky groove to it.  I like it.

  • the song is beautifil, but the playing... vibrato... bow effects...?!?!?

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