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Waltzing Matilda (mountain dulcimer - fingerpicking)

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Traditional Australian song based on an original song by Andrew "The Banjo" Paterson from 1895 and on the scottish song 'Thou Bonnie Wood of Craigielea' from 1818 by James Barr.This is my own basic arrangement for mountain dulcimer (fingerpicking style).
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Karen Keane
11/22/12 01:21:11PM @karen-keane:

Great job! The new dulcimer sounds great!
Peter W.
11/20/12 12:15:40PM @peter-w:

Thank you all for the friendly feedback!
Patty from Virginia
11/19/12 12:51:09PM @patty-from-virginia:

Goschi, this is beautiful. I'm glad you are enjoying your dulcimers. Thanks for sharingSmile.gif


Dusty Turtle
11/18/12 10:49:10PM @dusty:

Goschi, that is indeed a very pretty arrangement. I like some of the chording you've chosen, for you create harmonic movement in places where the melody is relatively static. Nice job.

By the way, YouTube itself doesn not investigate copyright at all. If they receive a complaint about copyright infringement, they pass it on without investigating its merits first. Then if an objection is raised, as it was in your case, they pass on that objection to whomever registered the complaint. Obviously in your case, you were in the right.
Peter W.
11/18/12 12:20:06PM @peter-w:

Thank you all for listening and for the encouraging comments. :) My new instruments really give me great pleasure; and, yes - it's very relaxing! 6.gif Playing the dulcimer helps me to forget everything else for a while and just to be in "here and now"... :)

By the way: When I mentioned in the video description that it is my own arrangement I didn't want to claim that it is in any way unique or something special. As I said, I'd say it is a rather basic arrangement. And I think that different arrangements of a certain song will always be quite similar on a diatonic instrument like the mountain dulcimer with its limitations.
It's the other way round: I just wanted to make sure to YT and / or any collecting societies that it is entirely my work. Only a few weeks ago I recorded a German folk song whose composer died in 1860 (!) and it was my own arrangement for mountain dulcimer. Yet - within short time I received a complaint from YT that the video violates the rights of a (not specified) collecting society. This time I was really sure that the complaint was not justified in any way and I decided to object against that. Some minutes later I received a notification that the complaint had been withdrawn. 15.gif


Rob N Lackey
11/18/12 07:00:00AM @rob-n-lackey:

Wow, Goschi. This is great, and I'm not saying that because it's so similar to the way I play itGrin.gif . Excellent!
John Keane
11/18/12 06:21:12AM @john-keane:

I enjoyed this very much! Smile.gif