the names of some of the bassists

The Gift
Hannah Linden

#Poetry #LondonGrip #HannahLinden #TheGift #Bassists #Fiddlers #Music

https://londongrip.co.uk/2023/09/london-grip-new-poetry-autumn-2023/#linden

50 years ago:
Fiddlers (SU)
Original title: Lăutarii
Leader of a traveling gypsy band from the steppes of Bessarabia (now Moldova), Toma Alistar is a skilled violinist whose fame takes him on tours around European capitals and royal courts. He remains obsessed with his first love, beautiful Leanca who was married elsewhere while Toma was traveling, an...
1973-04-02
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/50266
#Fiddlers #SovietCinema #ClassicMovies

@alltheoatmeal I played about 10 minutes and liked it a lot... tunes to A and D instead of G and C; the neck is a couple frets shorter, which my old left rotator cuff likes. Most #fiddlers leading #oldtime jams in #FloydVa for the dozen years I've been going tend to stay in A & D (the local D'n'A), but lately there are a few who detour into G. I'm not sure what the players with shorter banjos do about that -- slack the strings down to G, take a coffee break, or maybe grab their other #banjo?

Slàinte! #Fiddlers