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Hello Everyone. I've not been around for a while. Since Covid, I've gone back to playing my original instrument, the Recorder so haven't done so much with the ukulele. Still, I felt I had to contribute to this season as it is a landmark. 600 weeks! That's pretty good going. Some of your videos...

Even I've seen, though it was years later on telly

I've not totally gone away but it's harder these days to find time to make videos and I have gone back pretty much to the recorder, my original instrument. However here's something involving whistle rather than recorder. King William of Orange is an English variant of the traditional Irish tune...

I've only just seen this. Val, I'm so sorry. My condolences to you and your family.

I'm still lurking and occasionally make recordings. Here's Brian Boru's march a traditional Irish tune on whistle with accompaniment by my latest "toy", a metal tongue drum. It provides tuned percussion. I used a looper to produce a basic accompaniment pattern which then repeats as often as...

The father of the two Campbell Lads from UB40 was well known in the folk scene in the 1960s. Ian Campbell was born in Aberdeen (good choice!) and moved to Brum when he was in his teens. The Ian Campbell folk group was well respected in the 1960s. Among the songs they recorded was this superb...

Nice one, Lynda. I got stuck in a traffic Jam on Spaghetti Junction once. There'd been an accident on the M42 at evening rush time. I eventually found an alternative route home but grrrrrr!

I've been away for sometime and I thought it was time to pop back. My wife had a stroke in February last year and it's had a permanent effect on her mobility so it's been harder to get time for recording. She goes into hospital on Friday for major surgery but I've managed to sneak a bit of time...

I'm going back to the 1950s. It just about fits the 5-15 range for me as I was in my early teens in the second half of the decade. I remember still going to a friends house and he put on a record he'd just got. It was by Bill Haley - I can't remember what it was exactly but though it wasn't Rock...

I've not been participating much lately. Since my wife had her stroke, she's even less mobile than she was before and she lost confidence for a while so it's more difficult to find time to record. Also I've gone back to playing wind instruments more, so I've not played ukulele so much recently...

Plenty of scope with this one.

He's popped up on my Facebook a couple of times recently

I video myself on a separate video recorder while recording on a dedicated audio recorder. You could video yourself on your phone while recording on Garage Band; edit the audio then combine in a video editor.

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A traditional song from North East England. The earliest published version is 1793. The tune is gorgeous.

This song is one of the earliest in English and one of very few in Middle English to survive. It dates from about 1250 and was discovered in a sheet of parchment used probably as a bookmark in a manuscript. Just one verse was included but it is thought there were probably other verses but I...

I've just bought myself a looper. Here is my first effort with it. I used the looper to play a bass line, then played and sang over it. The song is a medieval one in Middle English and dates from somewhere between 1200 & 1250. I song both the Middle English Lyrics and a modern English translation.

This was on the UU list so I decided to give it a go. It had to include the signature bass line. I found a piano version on line and used the wonders of midi to create a bass guitar sound. I also added some synth strings in the chorus. If you see ads on the video it's because the copyright owner...

I wrote this song a few years ago and I like to try and bring it at this time of year. It's a song of ending and also of the potential for a new beginning. Lyrics and chords are in the YT description.

I have tenors tuned DGBE and I have mostly used Worth Fat strings. They are intended as high tension GCEA strings but I find they work well for DGBE. A tuning is just a tone up from that so they should work fine.