Girl With the Flaxen Hair MP3 Please give a listen!

Bill Hatcher · Post by **Bill Hatcher** » 22 Oct 2009 7:47 pm

I picked a classic tune this go around for the extended 12 string Leavitt tuning. The song is "Girl With the Flaxen Hair" by the French composer Claude Debussy. I like the beautiful melody and the chords in this song. I went online and found an arrangement for violin and piano and tried my best to get as much of it as I could. As it is with any adaptation of a classical piece, you have to make a few changes here and there for your particular instrument, and since this is not a song you hear on the non pedal steel guitar very much, I was able to pretty much do what I wanted!

This is something that I really wanted to try....a serious classical piece for the non pedal. Please let me know what your thoughts are.

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zlto4k3zjje

Rick Schmidt · Post by **Rick Schmidt** » 22 Oct 2009 8:25 pm

I'd tell you what my thoughts are, but I'm speechless! You are truly exploring new ground here Bill! This was a piece my mom use to play for me on piano. I became sorta familiar with it as a little kid and requested it often. Thanks for the lift!

I think Claude would be knocked out with his piece played on such a gorgeous instrument!

Doug Beaumier · Post by **Doug Beaumier** » 22 Oct 2009 10:09 pm

A beautiful, haunting sound, Bill! very nice, indeed. you're getting a lot of music from that 12 string Leavitt tuning!

Andy Volk · Post by **Andy Volk** » 23 Oct 2009 5:09 am

Gorgeous rendition, Bill. For guitar, Johnny Smith's version is definitive, even compared to Segovia's classic recording but my all-time favorite version by the by the late Italian virtuoso, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 23 Oct 2009 7:21 am

Beautiful, Bill. Really remarkable.

Roy Thomson · Post by **Roy Thomson** » 23 Oct 2009 7:46 am

Groundbreaking sound for the steel guitar Bill.
Congratulations!

Roy

Mike Neer · Post by **Mike Neer** » 23 Oct 2009 7:54 am

Bill, I'm wondering if you've had the chance to hear Swedish guitarist Anders Miolin. He plays 10 and 13 string guitar and has done CDs of arrangements of Ravel, Debussy, Satie and more. I bought some CDs of his about 10 years ago.
Check out some of his mp3 samples here:

http://www.miolin.com/download.html

http://www.miolin.com

Jan Jonsson · Post by **Jan Jonsson** » 23 Oct 2009 1:39 pm

Wow Bill!

That's wonderful playing. Your version is up there together with Mike Perlowin's version on his Firebird Suite CD.

-- Jan

Therman Jones · Post by **Therman Jones** » 24 Oct 2009 8:22 pm

Great job, as usual, Bill. You have inspired me to get my steel out of the case and start playing again.

Therman