“Strolling in the Gardens” is the garden festival, in which gardens are transformed into a temporary open-air theater with a very intimate character.
Our folkband played today in a beautiful garden of a nice couple in Amersfoort.
Category Archives: Music
Portable Squeeze Server
Update : https://www.henriaanstoot.nl/2022/05/26/portable-logitech-media-server-again/
Below is a picture of my mobile LMS server i used in my car.
I only had radio and a CD player, i’m not a radio man .. folk, pipes and audiobooks
At the time i was working for Dutch Railways, imagine me walking with this blinky leds thingy, though the railway station …
It consisted of a dual port usb charger, a usb hub to power the drive, the rpi wasn’t strong enough. Thumbdrives where small in capacity, so i had to use a spinning disk harddrive.
It was only a raspberry 1, in a case i had designed and lasercutted at Fablab Utrecht.
Now you can get rid of the Usb hub and harddrive using a small but with large capacity sdcards.
I could charge the thing in my car, and when i got home, it would connect to my home wifi network, sync-ed my MP3’s and turn off.
Passing places and The Road East.
Did a simple recording on one of our practice sessions.
Two tunes by Fred Morrison.
Fred Morrison was born and raised near Glasgow, but it’s the celebrated Gaelic piping tradition of his father’s native South Uist, in the outer Hebrides, that forms the bedrock of his intensely expressive, uniquely adventurous style.
We’ve been to South Uist in 2022, there are many passing places in the North and on the Isles.
But the tune Passing Places was writting because Fred was commisioned to produce a soundtrack for a film/documentary about the Hebrides.
The tune “The Road East” was written on a car journey from Glasgow to Edinburgh.
Trying Vietnamese Music Instruments
Whenever I see instruments I don’t know, I want to try them.
Doing so, every time, I get better at getting decent sound out of them.
Old to new mandolin
My old mandolin had a crack in the body.
Today I went with Monique and Coline to Musik Produktiv in germany.
I bought a new F style mandolin. With a new pickup.
Fixing an accordeon
In our folkband i play also the Accordeon.
I only know a few songs on this, but i needed to learn at least one to play in our band. This is in honour of my mother who alway encouraged us to play musical instruments.
This accordeon was het one she and her sisters learned to play on when they where young.
In 40+ years some things needed replacing!
Started using Spotify in 2013, what have I used before?
We all love streaming our music, I didn’t at start.
First some history.
My parents had a record player, but they were not that into music.
(Toon Hermans, Fons Janssen, Cliff Richard, and because of my little brother pan music from Costa Rica, but almost never have these been played)
Pre-1984 I got some LPs: Michael Jackson Thriller, Normaal and some Classical LP I found on a fleamarket. (I didn´t know what I liked apparently)
Well maybe I did, whatever the music was, it had to have something technical good.
Then i started playing Bagpipes.
Around 1984 I got some cassette tapes from the PipeMajor who taught me the pipes.
- Silly Wizard
- Battlefield Band
- Tannahill Weavers
- And several PipeBand cassettes
And I got a cool Japanese music tape from my Martial Arts teacher.
Oh my … the stuff I’ve got on my fileserver
I’ve played the heck out of these tapes in my room.
I seldom listed to the Radio
1992 – Started buying CD’s
1996 – Studied data compression/codecs etc. became interested in mp3 (See other page)
1997 – Converted all my CDs to MP3
All LP’s and Cassettes have been converted over the years.
After a few years I wanted to have non-lossy files.
Made ogg and Flac files.
2009 – Bought a Logitech Media Duet (still have it in 2023)
This allowed me to stream my MP3’s from my fileserver. I’ve bought many other logitech squeezebox devices.
A hack i made https://www.henriaanstoot.nl/2009/10/23/onkyo-web-control-hack/ in 2009
Many web streamers and managers have i tested in the years:
Ampache, Jellyfin, Funkwhale, Mpd, kplaylist and more
Made a MP3 server for work (Badly Designed Sound Machine) (see other page)
A webgui for our shoutcast server (Icecrew)
2013 – Started using Spotify, but not a lot of Folk/Pipes, luckily that changed.
But I still like to own the music.
Made a (now defunct) spotify ripper a while ago.
There is still a lot of music not available on spotify, but you can add local files to your Spotify interface.
Little drawing about one of the greatest pipers.
May he rest in peace.
He was a great driving force for current pipers like: Ross Ainsley and Ali Hutton.
His music was innovate. Not alway liked by purists.
He listened a lot to Breton music, and used a lot of cross-fingering to play extra notes.
The (bad) comic about him.
See the Gordon Duncan Memorial Trust at https://www.gordonduncan.co.uk/
Great tunes:
Some of the tunes I play:
- Mexican Hat Dance
- Thunderstruck/Angus Thing
- Full moono down under
- Muineira De Poio
- Smeseno Horo
- 98 Jig
- Soup Dragon (Banjo)
- Belly Dancer (started this on Border Pipes because of the tuning)
- Sleeping Tune
- Andy Renwick’s Ferret
- Pressed of time (Mandoline)
- Fourth Floor
- High Drive (smallpipe with our Folk Band)
- Zeeto the Bubbleman (long time ago)
Kilts and pipe-bands
I’ve played with several pipe-bands, all with different kilts.
First band I’ve played with was the Concord Pipe Band.
Here we first wore Gordon Day Dress, after that the Modern Gordon.
Later i played with the 48th highlanders of Holland and City of Amsterdam.
Stewart of Fingask and Modern MacPherson Tartan.
In 2001 I played with the Highland Valley pipe band.
They wear a Modern Hunting Stewart.
On this day (2011) i got my own Kilt.
A Isle of Skye Tartan.
