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MadforTrad Irish Music CD-ROM Tutorials.

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MadforTrad Irish Music CD-ROM Tutorials. Produced by Frank Torpey and Ciaran O'Connell. Cork City, Ireland: MadforTrad Ltd., 2001-. Uilleann Pipes: Sean Potts; Concertina: Niall Vallely; Flute: Seamus Egan; Irish Tenor Banjo: Gerry O'Connor; Fiddle: Cathal Hayden; Piano Accordion: Karen Tweed; Guitar: John Doyle; B/C Button Accordion: Derek Hickey; Bodhran: Frank Torpey; Tin Whistle: Brian Finnegan; Bouzouki: Gerry McKee. [System requirements: Windows 95 or higher, 16 MB RAM, CD-ROM drive, Web browser, and Windows Media Player; or Macintosh OS 8.1 or higher, 32 MB RAM, CD-ROM drive, Web browser, and QuickTime Player. $39.65 per disc]

This series of CD-ROMs produced by MadforTrad is a welcome addition to the growing market of "learn at home" Irish traditional music and dance tutorials. Taken individually, each disc offers a user-friendly, hands-on approach to learning an instrument with a focus on both beginning and advanced techniques and repertoire. When viewed as a whole, the series offers a remarkable window into the world of Irish traditional music through its clearly laid out juxtaposition of text, photographs, notation, video clips, and digital audio. Each disc features a virtuoso Irish traditional musician who is filmed demonstrating his or her instrument with many excellent close up shots of fingers in action. The producers of the series and some of the musicians are Cork based players who were involved in the traditional music groups Nomos and Four Men and a...

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