I'm a guitar player from the Scottish Borders who plays a wee bit of mandolin. I help out at a local fiddle "school" by keeping the beat, adding a bit of harmony and singing a few songs at their concerts. I do guitar repairs and have also started building guitars. I've also started writing tunes for my own amusement, initially on the guitar but then I found them a lot easier to play on the mandolin.
Tunes in DonaldK's tunebook: 29
| The Pi | waltz | February 8th 2010 |
| Titting The Scales | polka | January 29th 2010 |
| Cranford's Five Day Wedding | reel | January 12th 2010 |
| Tour 25 | reel | November 18th 2009 |
| John's Tune | reel | November 6th 2009 |
| Helping Hands | Jerry Holland And John Doyle | January 11th 2010 |
| Live At The Music Room | Troy MacGillivray | November 11th 2009 |
| Cuts | Andrea Beaton | March 5th 2007 |
| WhY2Keilidh | Howie MacDonald | December 22nd 2006 |
| The Power of thesession | July 10th 2007 |
| Identifying Tunes or Tune Identity (again) | February 8th 2007 |
| What's this jig called? | January 22nd 2007 |
| Discussions | Re: Are Drummers Musicians? | March 19th 2010 |
| Discussions | Re: Are Drummers Musicians? | March 19th 2010 |
| Tunes | March 17th 2010 | |
| Tunes | March 9th 2010 | |
| Tunes | March 9th 2010 |
| Name | Type | Key |
|---|---|---|
| Andy Renwick's Ferret | reel | Adorian |
| The Banshee | reel | Gmajor |
| Binomial Expansion | reel | Eminor |
| The Blarney Pilgrim | jig | Dmixolydian |
| Break Yer Bass Drone | reel | Amajor |
| Bulgarian Red | reel | Aminor |
| Calum Breugach | strathspey | Cmajor |
| Catharsis | reel | Gminor |
| Cooley's | reel | Eminor |
| Dick Gossip's | reel | Dmajor |
| The Glasgow | reel | Dminor |
| The Green Fields Of Glentown | reel | Adorian |
| The Harvest Home | hornpipe | Dmajor |
| The Irish Washerwoman | jig | Gmajor |
| Islay Rant | reel | Adorian |
| Jean's | reel | Gmajor |
| Jennie's Chickens | reel | Bminor |
| The Maid Behind The Bar | reel | Dmajor |
| The Rakes Of Kildare | jig | Adorian |
| The Rights Of Man | hornpipe | Eminor |
| The Road To Lisdoonvarna | slide | Edorian |
| Rory MacLeod | jig | Amajor |
| The Sally Gardens | reel | Gmajor |
| Scotty Fitzgerald's | jig | Gmajor |
| The Silver Spear | reel | Dmajor |
| Sleepy Maggie | reel | Bminor |
| The Stool Of Repentance | jig | Amajor |
| Teviot Bridge | jig | Amajor |
| The Waves Of Rush | reel | Dminor |