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Blimey.. can it really be TEN years since Chris brought his magic (yes I am a sycophant!) to planet Fairport!!

See here...

http://www.fairportconvention.com/news986.htm

"I remember my first gig and being welcomed so warmly by the audience at the Roses Theatre in Tewkesbury: that was my first real introduction to the enthusiastic and generous fan following that Fairport is blessed with."

The poor chap must have forgotten Cropredy '92.  I haven't.   ;)

Can you expand on that please David..?

I was there and Chris did a wonderful job in support of Ric.

Er...yep.  Exactly.

So in other words it wasn't Chris's "first introduction to..."  I've said elsewhere on here that Cropredy '92 was my favourite Fairport performance post-'84....

PAY ATTENTION, AMETHYST!!!   ;D ;D

Chris Leslie's joined Fairport! What happened to Maart?

Maaart - nooooooooo  :(

Next thing I know - You'll be telling me Richard has left ?  ;)

aaah.... Mr Leslie.  The man that bought me to Fairport, to Cropredy and ultimately to this place ;D

Can't believe you noticed that ;)

How time flies :o

How long has he been driving taxis?

Chris Leslie - a true enrichment for Fairport

Thanks for the first ten years.

Looking forward to the next ten.

You get less for murder.  ;)

Seriously, I can only echo the previous post.

Cheers Chris!

he can push the rest of the band on stage in their bath chairs  ;D

AND besides writing some cracking tunes he manages to maintain lovelyhair how does he do it?!

Vikki xx

It's a wig. He's balder than Peggy really.

How does that work exactly...?   ;)

Peggy does still have a small amount of hair - he has a rather good razor....

Does anybody have any pics of Chris playin the double necked strat type and his heavy metal single stringed teleshaped bouzouki? Chris ...

C'mmon lets have pics of Chris in his first 10 years!

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No, I don't think so....

This is one of Amy's favourites:

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Oh Cocker, that's really mean!

You b*****d! :(

No it is not.. as Gower Flower says...

You B***ard!!

Whad a mistaka to maka!

Well it did have two leads... not two necks... Mansfield 1997

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At a guess it's fitted with 3 normal pickups, and a microphone pickup. One lead goes to a guitar amp from the standard pickups, the other goes to the PA from the underbridge microphone.

Paul

Well I can count 10 strings there. Generally speaking, a 5 course double stringed instrument would be called a cittern and a four course double stringed instrument would be called a bouzouki, unless, of course, the instrument has a scale length of more than about 23 inches in which case it could be called a ten string bouzouki. Now a four course double stringed instrument with a scale length of less than about 23 inches but more than about 18 inches would be called an octave mandolin and one less than about 18 inches but more than about 15 inches would be a mandola. The cittern would have octave strings in the lower two courses, likewise the bouzouki although the bouzouki can be strung like the mandolin, mandola and octave mandolin as unison pairs. There is also a mandobass (as played by Hilary James) but you would need one hell of a strap around your neck unless you are sensible and play it upright like a double bass. The mandobass is unique in the mandolin family of instruments in that it has only four strings.

The two connections/leads Chris has is for high availability, if one goes down, the other takes over - the two connections having a combined virtual address with each connection having a unique physical address. Now each address, both virtual and physical, has to be unique or you end up with communications problems and one hell of a confusion with the band, sound engineers and audience not having a clue what is happening and incorrect reviews appearing in the newspaper.

Now, let's turn our attention to fiddles (or violins), violas and five string fiddles......

.. and a few more photos too if you please...  ;D