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02-26-2024, 03:00 AM
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I did a 2 hour bike ride yesterday with the lyrics taped to my handlebars. Five days left to go before the concert. I think that I'm hopefully going to get these tongue twisted lyrics of Sosban Fach up to playing speed by then.
Doing some background research, this Welsh Victorian era parlor song came together in its present form and became popular around the 1890s. I have an Essex & Cammeyer banjo made in London around 1895. So I'm going to play that for the song accompaniment using Gm sawmill tuning.
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02-26-2024, 04:13 AM
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02-28-2024, 07:42 PM
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It would be a really fun song to learn if you could find what the heck those lyrics are. edit: here's a fun review of it. I dare to watch it and not laugh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtYJ-j5k1-k
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02-28-2024, 08:24 PM
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Another bit of Welsh history has passed away, RIP Robert Plant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMM0PL0UQ4o
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02-29-2024, 04:44 AM
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02-29-2024, 05:49 PM
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https://en.mediamass.net/people/robe...deathhoax.html
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03-03-2024, 04:29 AM
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Well I performed Sosban Fach at the concert on Friday night. I did decide to put the words on the music stand and, watching the video back, I glanced at them a couple of times during the verses but not chorus or middle eight.
There were a good number of Welsh speakers in the audience so they were singing along pretty much from the start. So I had to amend my presentation on the fly to accommodate that. Lots of room for improvement. Right from my pre-amble, through my playing and singing and onward. The banjo sort of worked OK, I would use it again for the song, but I could also do a more robust "rugby" version with guitar. Particularly for a less gentle audience. I should keep this song in my "able to recall at will" list as it has the potential for many outlets in the future. Now that I have put so much effort in to learn the Welsh words it would be a shame to loose them from my memory.
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