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This is the Border Scots song tune Dainty Davie, played on nylon string double coursed Spanish laud (flat backed lute) tuned GDgce'g'.

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David Kilpatrick

Solo singer-songwriter and tunesmith playing British fingerstyle steel and nylon string guitar, and historic instruments. Scots and Irish influences.

I've been writing and playing songs and tunes since teenage years in folk clubs and pubs. I co-organise the Kelso Friday night live music sessions at the Cross Keys (hosted singaround 7.45-10pm) and Cobbles Inn (10-12pm open mic with The Cobbles Band) with the help of many friends. All welcome! Visit us at kelsofolkandlive co uk. It is worth clicking on the tab because the sound quality of my tracks is far higher than the auto player on this page. Many can be streamed or downloaded at 320KBps and the enhancement for solo guitar/voice far exceeds the benefit you get for highly compressed band recordings. My recordings are full dynamic, not compressed. Just select Hi-Fi for the first song, and an MP3 high bitrate window will open - you will still get a sequence of songs. Most of my downloads are free, but some 320KBps tracks are paid-for. These are selected because they make up my main instrumental album. I now have a YouTube page and have started doing some video recordings for fun: @daviddkilpatrick I have mainly played Lowden guitars since 1999. I current play a 1985 S5FN (nylon string), 1986 S22 (jumbo O-size mahogany/cedar), and 1995 S32 (small body rosewood/spruce). I also play my own 1997-built Martin 'kit' Grand Auditorium rosewood/spruce, a Sigma OM-T, Furch Little Jane, Tacoma Papoose, Guild 8-string baritone, Vintage V880 parlour guitar and Gordon Giltrap signature model, a Troubadour mahogany/spruce classical and an Adam Black 12-string. And that's just the guitars... also viola, mandolin, mandola, waldzither, bouzouki, Appalachian dulcimer, low D whistle, keyboards.

Song Info

Genre

World • Traditional Celtic

Charts

Peak #11

Peak in subgenre #1

Author

Trad. Arr. David Kilpatrick

Rights

David Kilpatrick

Uploaded

November 24, 2003

Track Files

MP3

MP3 2.4 MB • 128 kbps • 2:38

Story behind the song

The song tune, as opposed to dance versions for fiddle, is well suited to lute or guitar playing. Since I do not own a real lute, I have adapted a Spanish laud (normally wire strung, like a six-string mandola with a large body). This is strung with double courses, but using classical guitar strings. The recording is made using the Pickup the World No 30 sensor, fixed to the front of the instrument parallel to the bridge. For a picture see:

http://www.maxwellplace.demon.co.uk/pandemonium/laudandmicrobass.jpg

The laud is shown with the pickup fitted. The instrument next to it is a micro fretless bass guitar made by Brian Maynard in Scotland, strung with cello strings and with transducers inside the fretboard.

The normal end-block string looping of the laud's wire s trings is removed from this instrum ent and the nylon strings are attached to the bridge as if it was a classical guitar. Using a semi-open guitar tuning (equivalent to a double dropped D tuning, capo on the the 5th fret, in standard guitar terms) much of the playing using floating 'campanella' scales. The variations are in the tradition of Scottish lute or guittar playing - taking a basic tune and extemporising related versions. The recording is through a Trace Elliott TAP-1 DI box, directly into a Roland VS-880EX digital recorder, with some reverb applied.

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Poitin

Feb 07, 2011

Lovely...