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Thread #122240   Message #2678607
Posted By: Rowan
12-Jul-09 - 06:26 PM
Thread Name: Macann duets- how many players?
Subject: RE: Macann duets- how many players?
Anglo is my main game but I'm trying (very!) on the MacCann. Some decades ago I worked at Old Sydney Town ( a recreated version of the original, for tourists) with inter alia a banjo player. Many years later he turned up at my daughter's school playing old Oz songs with a MacCann player whose name I cannot now recall; he was good but not as good as Phil Wilson, who was one of the National Folk Festival heavies during the initial "sedentary in Canberra" phase of the early 90s.

Barb Scott (she of the superb tin whistle) also plays one rather well and was the person who first demonstrated to me the ease with which one could play it "upside down" using almost the same fingering as normal.

Mudcat's Squeezeme also plays one and I know he knows of others in Oz.

Cheers, Rowan