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Arrrr, me hearties, and 'tis another year gone. Here be yer chance to play a few sea-shanties for the yearly ITLAPD event !
The actual "day" is 19th September so this just be a-reminding ye bilge rats that it be a-comin' round soon, although ye can be adding a fiddle tune to this thread any time you like.
[ I appreciate we have lots of others things on the agenda - the Game of Thrones project and @Barry 's StreetJelly "Strings Recital" to name but two. But, if you can run-off a quick sea-going or in any way sea-related tune, and just post it here, that would be a blast ! Heyyy - anything will do - this was my 2014 submission - dressing-for the part is not mandatory, but does bring some fun into it ! - ]
So, avast ye swabs, git yer fiddles out and play us a sea-shanty, else I ( yer Cap'n this year ) will have ye keel-hauled !
Yer Cap'n Grey Beard ( a.k.a. BillyG )
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as always Mad
quite entertaining I'll have to work on one of those tunes..
With violins there is no fretting over the music.
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As I said on Facebook, I'm in mate! I will don some kind o' pirate lookin' clothes and pick out a fun hornpipe for me fiddle 
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Anyone have a list of easy Maritime Songs to choose from? Outside of a drunken sailor I come up with a blank...
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One of the most well known - "Blow The Man Down" - and it's easy - nothing over-fast, no horrid jig or hornpipe timing LOL -
There's huge list here - http://www.contemplator.com/sea/ - many with midi files to download / listen to / get ideas from
@Ripton - I know you're a viola man - I'll get a hold of the sheet for BlowTMD (I just played it from my head in my Pirate Day 2014 ) and post both treble and alto versions here - in fact I'll do it now - wait..... here you go - said it wouldn't take long - simple scores for BTMD for both violin and viola in D along with midi and musescore version..
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Blow-the-man-Down-violin-D.mscz
There you go Stevie - no excuse ! LOL !
Arrrrrrrr !
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Ha harr lad!
I won't say I'm in, but if I have time I may run through the POTC medley I have and possibly a trad shanty.
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I got me tune picked out, me costume picked out, now I just need to be learnin' the tune on me fiddle. May need to take this one on location to the lake....
Arrr and more pirate speak and stuffs.
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Do it.
"The richest person is not the one who has the most,
but the one who needs the least."
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@Ripton lol, that's the tune I picked out, too 
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Thanks for the interest folks @OldOgre, @Ripton, @damfino, @SilverHalide
Whatever you come up with will be great, and, really although the actual "day" is the 19th there's no need to bust a gut ( lol, violin joke ! ) to do it for then - just look on this as a party-thread and add whenever you want.
Steve - I just SO wish you hadn't mentioned Sailor's Hornpipe..... and this is the reason - Alison Sparrow's speed-challenge - - and she STARTS at 150bpm.....
Ohhhh - don't let that put you off - speed ain't everything LOL
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@BillyG I love that video of hers, I went back to it a couple nights ago. I wish I could play that fast, lol!
Edit to add I found a simpler version (no shifting) that I can work with. I can shift to 3rd ok enough now, but still feel more comfortable just staying in 1st for now (at least for my Pirate day video
Is the work day over yet so I can go play my fiddle? 
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Fiddlerman said
Do it.
BillyG said
...Steve - I just SO wish you hadn't mentioned Sailor's Hornpipe..... and this is the reason - Alison Sparrow's speed-challenge - Ohhhh - don't let that put you off - speed ain't everything LOL
Well on that "note" I will endeavor to accomplish this great task .... at 25BPM... Now how will that be for a speed challenge? Sort of like Popeye on Ativan.
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arrrgh..this pirate talk has drained me rum keg
There is no shame in playing twinkle, youre playing Mozart
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Arrrr @Barry me scurvy-sea-dog ship-mate, ye be in a desperate situation there me-lad.
I be havin' me own keg in me cabin, but I'll be a-cuttin' aff yer ears afore ye gets yer hands on't. So, avast ye swabs, by my command, 3 days shore leave fer all me hearty crew ! Meet ye all in the Black-Heart Tavern to replenish our grog stores....
Yer Cap'n, Grey Beard
[ Barry - don't encourage me ! It just gets worse ! 
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BillyG said
[ Barry - don't encourage me ! It just gets worse !
There is no shame in playing twinkle, youre playing Mozart
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Working on my tune, my fiddle is already getting in the spirit of TLAPD
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LOL ! Nice pic Mandy - you've brought us a new crew-member !
Arrr, me flea-ridden-scurvy-crew, say welcome aboard to our new ship-mate Fiddler Jack !
I see's yer strung-up already wi' yer neck well-stretched, so thar be no point stringin' ye up from the yard-arm if ye misbehave. It'd have tae be a keel-haulin' fer ye Fiddler Jack.
And at least ye'll be a-floatin' if ye falls o'erboard.
[ Yup, it gets worse...... I blame me crew, yer all as daft as yer cap'n, long may it continue ! ]
Yer Cap'n,
Grey Beard
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Arrr, Fiddler Jack be very good at floatin', just not so good at the paddling... unless he is the paddle, lol.
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Arrrrr, whar's me rum ye accursed deck-swabbers? I'll bet it was that @Barry lad that broke into me cabin and hid it - and right now, it be the time o' day fer a deep-swig o' the hard-stuff...
Hehehehe ! How's the Sailors Hornpipe going there Mandy ? I've messed with the first part occasionally for the last couple of years ( just because it's one of the many tunes in my head LOL - never really tried to do it properly.... Must admit though, if Fiddler Jack is working on Vi Wickams sheet there, he won't be doing bad - looking forward to hearing him play for sure !
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[ OK OK, so I have officially "lost the plot" .... but that's not such a bad thing at the age of 64... I believe it is my constitutional right to be allowed to do that....
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