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hi kilt, is the weather good up there. I love Scotland, and the Greek Instrument is a BOUZOUKI.
Do you like GREEK music? I don't, qk, some songs are good. But Greek music sounds very similar with TURKISH music and that music is related to EASTERN music, like INDIA. For us it is very sober and monotone, I better close my mouth because talking about things you don't really know is wrong
I asked once a question about plagiarism, of course a lot of songs are similar, just take the BLUES, and there are only 7 chords (basic chords), not talking about minor... This is what playing guitar means to me, using chords and try to put them in a an order, did you know that minor chords are almost always used in SAD songs.
I will make a new topic: why guitar, and what are your dreams and knowledge.
Let's see if people answer this. I wait for your opinion: 2 give more than 1.
Have a nice day.

What night of the week or how often do they have these gettogethers mate?   I stay about a 30min drive from the Carbeth  Inn and i would like to go along to one of these nights.

of course i live in nebraska but there is a festival in newyork in late july called falcon ridge where a lot of folksy bands come and play as well as in the camoing area where people just sit out and play is good stuff.

oh i have a question upyerkilt how do you guys over there view americans

i occasionally go to orpington folk club which has a singer and musicians night

never taken the floor because I don't really have the skills on the acoustic guitar to turn out a song

in english folk clubs,  blues, especially electric blues, is regarded as a little too modern and country a little too ameri.....no, lets not start that again

however I am working on a couple of songs so one day soon.

I am 100% convinced and I really DO HOPE, that we should have at least once a big meeting. Imagine at least 1000 of us, chordians, staying there, exchanging tips, tricks songs. I am afraid that the organisation of such a meeting will be a horrible task.
You need money to go there, so it will be quit expensive which I think will be the biggest problem.
It looks like a dream, meeting all the people behind their (nick) names, and having fun fun fun.
We should maybe invite a professional guitar player and have our mini Woodstock.
Unfortunately, this will be a year project, getting a lot of us together for a few days. For me I think it is possible, even when there are only 100 chordians, it will be a success.

Gilmour fan

Did you ever go up to Carbeth inn for the folk night?

I was up again last Thursay and it was even better than the last time. Was a lot more scottish and irish songs.
Hopefully be making it this thursday if I get a child minder for a few hours.

Ken

hmmmm, might go to that, is it the one in glasgow?

jerome,

Damn good replies there
That was not all my own personal thoughts by the way, just what I hear others saying.

BUT,
yeah America did put man on the moon first, but it was the great soviets that put him in space first, and also if america didnt do it, someone else would have anyway, so you will have top retract that. Winning a race doesnt make someone better.:lol:

And your reply about the religious thing, although I dont really mind what people think about religion, but you have a point about a minority making everyone look like nutters. ( we have a minority in scotland that wear kilt yet lots think we all wear kilts and run around chasing haggis in the hils)
Maybe there is too much attention on the minorities and less on the better side of things.

oh yeah and talking about being great, lets see
the scottish discovered penicillan
61% of American Presidents are of Scots or Scots-Irish descent
James Pollock, of Scots descent, put the slogan "In God We Trust" on American coins!
A Scot, James Watt, developed the first efficient steam engine and in so doing started the Industrial Revolution.
A Scot, John Logie Baird, invented the Television.
A Scot, John Napier, invented logarithms and the decimal notation.
A Scot, Kirkpatrick Macmillan, invented the bicycle.
A Scot, John Paul Jones, founded the American Navy.
A Scot, Alexander Fleming, discovered Penicillin.
A Scot, William Paterson, founded the Bank of England.
A Scot, Alexander Graham Bell, invented the telephone.
A Scot, John Chalmers, invented the adhesive postage stamp.
A Scot, John Boyd Dunlop, invented the car tyre.
A Scot, Captain Patrick Ferguson, invented the breech loading rifle.
A Scot, Major General Lachlan Macquarie, know as the 'Father of Australia',
A Scot, Sir John Alexander Macdonald, was the first Prime Minister of Canada under confederation.
A Scot, Thomas Blake Glover, was one of the founding fathers of modern Japan.
A Scot, Henry Faulds pioneered the use of fingerprints as means of undisputed identity of people.
A Scot, Robert Stirling, invented the Stirling engine in 1850. Stirling engines are being studied at NASA for use in powering space vehicles with solar energy!
The Scots invented Golf.
“History credits the Rev. Elijah Craig, a Baptist minister, with being the first in 1789 to make bourbon.† He was a Scotsman. Kentucky is the place for bourbon because of the limestone which makes the water almost iron-free. “The first bourbon recognized by brand outside of Kentucky probably was produced by Dr. James Crow...a Scotsman who settled near the Rev. Craig’s place.† He was known by the locals as Jim Crow.
The Scottish-American Hall of Fame contains more plaques for the military than any other category. Twenty-one men are installed including Daniel Boone who is listed as an “Indian Fighter.† The list is as follows: George Rogers Clark, Frontier hero of the Revolutionary War; Stonewall Jackson; Joseph E. Johnston; Henry Knox; Arthur MacArthur, army general, father of Douglas MacArthur; George B. McClellan; Alexander Macomb, general and hero of the War of 1812; William (Billy) Mitchell, controversial air power advocate; William Multrie; George S. Patton, WWII exponent of mobile warfare; Winfred Scott, Mexican War and Chief of staff; J.E.B. Stuart, Confederate cavalry general; Christopher “Kit† Carson, frontiersman and explorer; William Clark, explorer with Merriwether Lewis; Davy Crockett, frontiers-man who died at the Alamo. Two individuals are listed under the category of “Naval.† They are David Glasgow Farragut, Civil War naval hero, and John Paul Jones, Revolutionary War naval hero.
Famous Quote: "If all else fails, I will retreat up the valley of Virginia, plant my flag on the Blue Ridge, rally around the Scotch-Irish of that region and make my last stand for liberty amongst a people who will never submit to British tyranny whilst there is a man left to draw a trigger." George Washington, Valley Forge.
Scottish Freemasonry is now officially recognised as being the oldest in the world and is now recorded as a Guinness World Record.
Scot invented suspenders.
Although the Scots comprise less than one-half of 1 percent of the world’s population, 11 percent of all Nobel prizes have been awarded to Scotsmen. Quote from "The Mark of the Scots" by Duncan A Bruce.
The world’s first university faculty of engineering and technical science was in Glasgow.
67 US Politicians were born in Scotland that we know off.
There are estimated to be 20,000 Americans living in Scotland and half a million visit each year.
It is estimated that 15% of Canadians are of Scots descent.
Scotland invented branch banking and so brought banking facilities to the people and the world.
"The Reverend Malcolm MacDonald, a native of Whitton, Quebec, a descendant of the early Scots settlers and of the first church established in the area, says:
"‘The Book of Books was the library they opened, and the Church of Jesus Christ was the first institution they established and that in their homes, and the Gospel of Christ was the philosophy they espoused.’ "
"The most casual observer and historian must admit that these early settlers played a leading part in setting the course in which the Nation travels today.
"I am indeed grateful that we are privileged to stand in the stream of a noble, spiritual, national and cultural tradition, which has flourished in Scotland for centuries, and for some 150 years established firmly on this North American Continent, in both Canada and the United States.
SCOTS emigres to the US are five times more likely to become dollar millionaires than those from any other country, according to a study of wealth. Thomas Stanley and William Danko, in their book The Millionaire Next Door, analysed the ethnic backgrounds of the wealthiest members of US society and discovered that while people of Scottish origin make up 1.7% of the population, they comprise 9.3% of its millionaires.
At the battle of Trafalgar (The British under Nelson won a decisive naval battle off southern Spain against the French and Spanish.) in 1805 around 30% of the fleet's crew hailed from Scotland and Scottish industry provided timber products, sails, ropes, iron cannons and iron balls.
Scottish Explorers and Fur Trappers
Read about how Scots dominated the Fur trade and by so doing opened up Canada and the West.

well, sorry to go on a bit there, but with me being scottish, I am damn prooud of how internationally great my country is and how we are loved internationally for our friendliness, our humour, our music, our hospitallity. Without us the world would be a worst pace to live,lol.

Amazing the trivial things ye find on the nett to reply back to people ,lol

the only thing I am shocked at is it was an merican woman that invented the ar's windscreen wiper. Although I would put a bet on she must have scottish blood in her,why did a man not invent this? lol

Ken

Yeah, I agree, those of us of Scotts-Irish descent are fabulous people.

But back to the nation bashing....      What is up with cricket?  Why don't you folks play a proper sport like baseball?   

Sorry my post was a little off thread,But to get all the guys back together would be a Folk Gathering as were are all grown up and have families.Some of us even play guitar.lol.
A lot of kids played back then. We could have a world series of Cricket-ball.Anyway have a great day.

...Badeye.

I couldnt agree more with you, I hate cricket. it is an english game really, not scottish, although someone in scotland has decided we need a cricket team for some unknown reason tome!! I would much prefer to have baseball a fantastic game that.........wait for it..........steady on now........... the........the.....dare I say it............. The americans invented

i am not into nation bashing, not unless it is the ............
ok, stop there,
lets leave the nation bashing alone, we are all horrible humans on a lovely planet.

Ken

A belated thankyou for your information Upyerkilt,  forgive my rudeness not thanking you a lot sooner.  in my defence im on here infrequently, and when i am its usually pouring throught  the replys and advice for beginners.  Oh and i would like to say,  i recentlly mastered the Bminor and a few other bar chords when i told the mrs she replied "theres a dead cat along at the lane"