Ashokan Farewell -- mandolin

This is a try at the great "modern classic" fiddle tune by Jay Unger entitled Ashokan Farewell -- made mega famous in the Burn's Civil War documentary. It IS a lovely waltz tune. I thought it was a fine tune for developing double stops too.
I gave up on the Logitec webcam for creating videos and I gave up on their useless customer support team too! snarl! So this recording was made with an RCA Small Wonder video camera -- its much better I think -- and does a great job for such an inexpensive item.

Played here in the key of D major on a 1920 Gibson F-2 mandolin with D'Aquisto M-21 phosphor bronze strings and a Wegen TF-120 pick. I created the guitar track using TablEdit software.

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• Ashokan
• Farewell
• Jay
• Unger
• mandolin
• waltz
• fiddle
• tune
• old
• time
• music
• Gibson
• F-2
• TablEdit
• folk
• cover
• folk music
• bluegrass

[seagrdjmj]

Great playing Bernie! Excellent tremolo. Don't look so serious :-)

[Mandolin1944]

@seagrdjmj Thanks for the remarks. Yes I've always wondered why my "natural expression" is kind of like someone who has just sat on a tack! LOL!

[mgwhitehead]

Nice relaxed tremolos. Beautiful job on a beautiful tune.

[Mandolin1944]

@mgwhitehead Thanks for the kind words Martin! You have so many great videos on your channel so I really appreciate you stopping by.

[diptanshu]

beautifully played.... one of my favourite tunes :) i havent played it in ages... your mandolin has a beautiful tone... is it a an F4?! how is the action on this one? i would love to play it sometime... dont get to see any gibsons out here...

[Mandolin1944]

@diptanshu Thank you sir! I see you have been doing some new things on your channel as well! I keep coming back to play that Blake's March you and pertourious did a while back -- has to be one of the coolest videos. I will be posting some mandocello soon -- I'm starting to get a handle on the longer fingerboard (25.5 inch scale) -- I put a video up of the conversion yesterday. Thanks for the encouragement!

[Mandolin1944]

@portgilbertred Thank you for the most generous remarks! And I hope you decide to post some tunes too -- especially on mandolin of course!! (<:

[Mandolin1944]

@UglyGirlSingsGood1 Thanks so much and it is good to have you new channel -- keep in touch!! (<:

[UglyGirlSingsGood1]

Hi Bernie! What a beautiful song! I started a new channel because I logged out accidentally so I added the number1 to the end of my channel name so you can find me I hope all is well I missed you I had operation 41 only 3 weeks ago! It was my 8th skull surgery UGH! Come visit my new channel when you can Love wantstotravel AbbyRd  at UglyGirlSingsGood1

[Mandolin1944]

@sizefam4  Thanks! Its a great tune for working on both!!