Emily, I wouldnt call it fun john specker does the best version of this type I have heard, made me appreciate the work he put in on this one, especially with his feet beating out a rythm at the same time, took me quite a while listening to it to work out the notes, and how he does it, all I have to do now is practice it for about a 1000 hours. Its in DDAD by the way. I may try it on my regular fiddle to see what it sounds like, or I may get some new strings for the stentor, handy having it ready in a different tuning , but i think the a string is completely shot for this type of  playing, gave me a new interest anyway, and I may try some others now.

Mouse its the tuning that makes it sound like more than one fiddle. The idea is to play all notes on two different strings, using one of the strings as a drone, so when you play G on the D string you also have the note D playing as a drone at the same time, problems started for me with this one when string crossing, Its unusual when I am not used to it, for me anway, but I am starting to get it now.

Thanks for the post on midnight on the water, I have heard the tune but not seen this vid. It is extremely similar at the begining, excellent video as well, I have watched it a few times already, I am going to give the tune a go I think, he has a great technique and sound, I tend to rush things, but tomorrow I am giving the cobblers one a try out, the same one you are working on I think its got a great sound to it, slightly mysterious, dont think the name does it justice, it should be called something like, the hill of Tara, or Fairies lament, in my opinion anyway, but then again it was named about 400 years ago;)

Glad you are still getting so much fun from the six string, thats what its all about, for myself I am going to start playing guitar again, been composing a bit of delta blues on it, cant believe I havent touched it for so many years, its like learning all over again. 

Thanks sasha, just experimenting with the cross tuning, its quite a different concept for me, and quite good fun;)

Thanks Mark, like I said just trying it out, good fun.