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Fiddle Hangout Newsletter #72
In this issue...
+ Member Video Picks
+ $5 T-Shirt Closeout Sale!
+ Popular Forum Topics
+ John Hartford Book Winners
Click to enlarge Hi Fiddle Lovers,
I've still got some $5 shirts left--please take them off my hands (see below)! We've got some other fun content below... favorite topics, drawing winners, member videos and more. Enjoy!

~ Eric Schlange
Fiddle Hangout Webmaster
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Member Video Picks
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Backstep Cindy
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Crow Little Rooster
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Durang's Hornpipe
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Old Horse & Buggy

Last Chance: $5 T-Shirt Closeout Sale!

We're cleaning off our shelves to make room for new things... so we're selling all the Fiddle Hangout T's we've got left below cost. Only $5 per shirt, while supplies last!

Sale includes our Don't Fret design, the "Sketchy" T, and past years' Players Union shirts.
Lesson Video
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New Book Explores the Creative Mind of John Hartford

John Hartford’s Mammoth Collection of Fiddle Tunes provides a sizable anthology containing 176 of his original compositions. Most of these tunes are previously unpublished and unrecorded, taken from Hartford’s personal music journals. The book includes 60+ of John’s personal drawings—ranging in theme from steamboats and the river, to fellow musicians, home and everyday life—as well as several never before seen photographs.

Best known for writing the Glen Campbell classic “Gentle on My Mind,” and launching Newgrass music with his landmark album Aereo-Plain, Hartford was a prolific songwriter and composer. A central figure in the Nashville acoustic community, he championed old-time music with an emphasis on the fiddle.
A one-minute flip through the new John Hartford fiddle book

Popular Forum Topics

Here are a few currently popular topics from the Fiddle Hangout forums:

Intonation, How Close is Close Enough
Favorite crooked fiddle tunes
Suggest your favorite fiddle tune(s)
Advancing from intermediate
Keeping this thing in tune
E String
Double Stops in 5th's
Improving Sight Reading
Playing to My Strengths
Codabow experience
Grasstrax

John Hartford Book Winners

Congrats to Edward Burke of Madison, VA, William Willis of Ridgecrest, CA and Audrey Larson of Bloomington, MN who each won our drawing for a copy of "John Hartford’s Mammoth Collection of Fiddle Tunes" book from the John Hartford Office.

This sizable anthology contains 176 of John's original compositions, most of which are previously unpublished and unrecorded. It sheds light on Hartford’s creative process through original tune compositions, his own reflections on the fiddle, and interviews with family and fellow musicians.

Thanks to the John Hartford Office for sponsoring the drawing!
Drawing Prize
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