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New Year News

Editor — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:39:10 +0000

Well, things have been busy in the workshop already this year. I’ve been working on a couple of mandolins – one is an Eastman F5 copy, in for a re-fret, and the other is an Embergher 5 bis copy circa 1920, a round-backed roman mandolin with fluted maple ribs. It needed a new fingerboard and a general tidy up. I also started work on a neck graft on an 18th century Bohemian violin; the old neck had been broken in an accident. I’ve also done some bow rehairs and repaired a belly crack in a German violin c1870. I’m currently finishing off some repairs to Mike Harding‘s fiddle.

As well as my luthier work, I give private lessons and I have a few spaces available for new students on fiddle or mandolin. If you’re interested in lessons or need a repair to your fiddle or mandolin, please get in touch here.

If you haven’t heard my fiddle playing (or even if you have!), try this link.

You can also check out my mandolin playing here.

I’m planning to record an instrumental CD in the spring and hope to include some Bach, Vivaldi and Corelli, along with traditional tunes and some swing. I’ll be playing arrangements on fiddle, mandolin, viola, mandola, mandocello and guitar! I’ll also be teaching at a fiddle workshop in Grantham in May 2012. More details on that to follow soon. No live dates planned at the moment other than private functions, but watch this space . . .

Some more “Kitchen Music”

Gina Le Faux — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 13:35:32 +0000

Here’s another video filmed the other night in Eoin’s kitchen.

The tune is an Irish Traditional Reel called “Farrell O’Gara”, it

features Gina Le Faux on mandolin and Eoin Teather on guitar.

Some “Kitchen Music” with an old friend

Gina Le Faux — Thu, 02 Jun 2011 21:14:46 +0000

I had dinner with Eoin Teather, an old friend who I used to gig with 10 years ago and after we’d eaten we played a few tunes. Here’s a video of us playing a tune I wrote for Martin Simpson and Andy Seward who produced my last CD. The tune is called “The Producers”. Sorry about the picture quality, it was filmed on a cheap camera. I’m playing it on my 93 Flatiron Signature F5 mandolin signed by Bruce Weber. Click on this link to see the video.