Joplin - Country Club/Maple Leaf Rag - Abaca String Band

Scott Joplin learned to play the guitar before he began piano lessons at age 7. He was also a great admirer of the leading mandolin players of his time and dedicated some of his ragtime piano pieces to some of them. Good enough reason to feature mandolin in these two ragtime pieces!

The Abaca String Band was founded in 1991 by Andrew Schulman. The members of the group are Schulman, Music Director/8-String Guitar, Robert Zubrycki/Violin, Tamara Volskaya/Domra-Mandolin, Julie Goodale/Viola, Bradley Lovelace/Double Bass.

Recorded at the Poway Center for the Performing Arts, San Diego, CA, on October 22, 2008.

Music arranged by Andrew Schulman
Videography by Gary Stoefen

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http://www.abacaproductions.com/

Guitar by Darren Hippner (Point Roberts, WA - 2008)
http://www.hippnerclassicalguitars.com/
Violin by Giovanni Battista Grancino (Milan - 1700)
Domra by Igor Vladimirovich Yemelyanov (Moscow - 1975)
Viola by A. Aurelio (Rome - 1920)
Messenger Bass by John Knutson (Forestville, CA - 2003)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Joplin
• Abaca
• Mandolin
• Domra
• 8-String
• Guitar
• Strings
• Volskaya
• Zubrycki
• Goodale
• Lovelace
• Schulman
• Hippner

[angelica1912]

La Guitarra Banjo se escucha mas que la guitarra, pero igual es genial como tocan!!! me enamore de ellos *o*!

Bravo!!!!!!

[adeadgbe]

¡Gracias!

[adeadgbe]

Multiple orgasms!?! While you were drunk? Congratulations!!

[C3P0meetsData]

don't get me wrong, I like this a lot, but I really wish the mandolin had a more unique part. I feel like it's always in unison with the violin, and because usually the mandolin is playing an octave higher then the first violin, it tends to mask the first violin's sound. They should either give the mandolin its own part or not have one at all.

[adeadgbe]

@C3P0meetsData

Hi C3PO,

I did the arrangements; except for the intro to "Country Club" where the mandolin (domra actually, a Russian version of the mandolin) and violin are in unison the mandolin part is almost always above the violin part in pitch.

Sincerely yours,

R2-D2

[adeadgbe]

Thank you, we did a concert recently in Sedalia, Missouri where Joplin wrote it and found out how many different styles there are for playing this music.

[MsCopyist]

I've always called this neo-classicism. That's my story and I'm stickin' with it. Such a loving tribute.

[scottishdrunk097]

I had an orgasm at  3:18-3:22 , 3:39-3:42, 4:38-4:40, 4:50-4:52, 5:10-5:11, 5:32-5:28, and one last one at 6:28

[EvilCracky]

wow i have that exact same domra....the little round instrument 4 string

Anyone know if they are worth much? hahah one i have is super old

i have been playing it alot....really cool instrument

[3Doofus]

I like their version of Country Club - especially the mandolin player! What's her name and is that an Iucci mandolin she's playing?! The rest of the band is pretty wimpy - too classical in their approach to this kind of music in my opinion.

[UmbertoConforti]

I don't like the domra in this genre!!