On Fri, 8 Feb 2002 23:08:34 -0800 John Relph wrote:

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002 09:40:27 -0500, John Bird <birdj@access1.net> wrote:
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>I think it would be interesting to hear about the technique people use as
>they write tunes, and what part that plays in overall technique.  I would
>also issue a challenge:  that every Comando write a mandolin tune this
>month.

Here's my tune.  I wrote it yesterday, when I noticed the challenge above quoted in somebody's reply to the list.  This is a pretty simple transcription.  There are more ornate variations, but I thought I'd try to get the basic tune down first.

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Recorded and mixed on Saturday and Sunday, July 9 and 10, 2005.
Will's old Tascam Porta One is giving up the ghost.  No more rewind or fast forward.  But I was able to record a handful of tunes yesterday and today, including "Challenge Hornpipe", one of my own.


Challenge Hornpipe

She drove a Plymouth Satellite, faster than the speed of light. But I took XTC's Another Satellite and stuck Ypsilanti Hornpipe right in the middle, and since Ypsilanti, Michigan, was the home of a Ford plant, I couldn't be driving a Plymouth now, could I? So this song is Another Aerostar, to keep with the spatial theme of the original. That's me on guitar, mandolin, bass and Frank Zappa inspired vocals. Sorry for the spoonerism.

Relphius