Great party Toni ( or is that Pinky La Cool ? ) !  Since this is currently a fairly active thread with lots of posts and contributors,  I thought I would cross post a link to the International Talk Like a Pirate day 2015 thread just to bring it to folks' attention - we have around 60 days to submit something ! https://fiddlerman.com/forum/s.....ject-2015/

@lindamc - great stuff - we like parties that never end here !   Thank you 

And here we have Scotland The Brave on EV (imagine it is being played on the bagpipes)....  Haven't practiced it much (probably not even 50 times played yet, so I don't by any means "own it" yet) - and sure - it deviates from the sheet because.... well, just because...  LOL !

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LOL Ken!  Thank you!  I do know what you mean though!  I feel the EV "has its place" and on well known traditional songs like that, especially as a solo instrument, it can sound, well, unexpected I guess, to say the least.  

I have a recurring problem with this, because I hear tunes/songs like these in my head - and the "internalization" I have of this particular one is of a massed pipe-band, with drum rolls in the B part, and the band drum-major leading the band, twirling-and-birling the mace ( hence my approach to playing the B part - I just cannot avoid it ! LOL )

But it's all good fun !

LOL - thanks CPO - but the thanks for the sound itself surely go to the Boss ME-80 guitar FX box really ! LOL    

Seriously though - great fun - it was the "wrong one" to pick from FM's sheets ( for the same reason many are ) - I have my own "internalization" of many of these pieces - and not being a "true sheet reader" I just go off on my own, and (sometimes unintentionally) bring things into it that represent "what I hear in my head" kind of thing.....    To some extent, I guess that's OK for soloing, not much use for playing with others though...   it can also "be unsettling" to the listener if there are a couple of extra bars where I'm filling in a "drum roll" so to speak...  weird, weird... I just do not know what happens in my head...  I'm a lost boy - and I blame http://www.fiddlerman.com !

LOL Pinky La Cool - it's the traditional Fender head-stock that gets me on the 5-string yinfente... let alone the RIDICULOUSLY cheap price for anyone who cares to do a bit of "homework" on it and make it sing....  the color and its looks, etc, is, to me, unimportant LOLOL ( artistic philistine here - well - no - not really - of course I do "know what I like" - but like my old pal Herman the viol-ola who should have been consigned to the scrap heap years ago - I see value in all ( well, most ) things....)

 I have a similar idea for a very unique EV ( and I have the bits I need - just don't know if I am actually going to spend the time to do the work ) for my "maple-wood-pick-axe-handle fiddle" I am planning to make...  that will have the guitar-style machine-head tuners/tensioners - a bit like a guitar and what Denny's yinfente has ( I don't mean the traditional Fender head-stock shape - just referring to the tensioners themselves) - but they will be down at the chin-rest end, rather than the nut .  So far, I have it measured out, but - I really do need to find someone with a woodworking lathe to reduce what will become the neck overall diameter....  hmmm  -  I'm beginning to suspect this is a project that may just be left till next year - I just have TOO MANY DARNED TSONGS TO  LEARN AND TO PLAY ....  grrrrrrrrrr... LOL