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Irish Meditation Ii Gile Mear by El Mcmeen

Artist Biography For El Mcmeen

Soothing Acoustic Instrumental Folk/pop Guitar Classics.
Elmer Ellsworth McMeen III Known As El McMeen Born June 3 1947 In Lewistown Pennsylvania Is An Acoustic Steel-String Fingerstyle Guitarist. His Specialty Is Fingerstyle Arrangements Of Sung Or Strongly Melodic Pieces Ranging From The Irish Genre To Hymns Gospel Tunes And Pop Music. He Has Also Composed Instrumentals For Guitar And Has Published A Book Of Irish And Scottish Instrumental Music That He Arranged For Classical String Trio Violin Viola And Cello . That Book Is Called Celtic Treasures For String Trio Piney Ridge 2005 . He Plays And Arranges Guitar Music Almost Exclusively In The CGDGAD Tuning. That Tuning Developed By English Guitarist Dave Evans In The 1960’s Is Similar To A Hawaiian Slack-Key Tuning CGCGAD Called "C Ni'ihau" Tuning. Acoustic Guitar Magazine Oct. 2001 No. 106 Called McMeen "the King Of CGDGAD Tuning". McMeen Has Also Arranged Many Pieces Of Music In Dropped D Tuning DADGBE And Has Written The Art Of Dropped D Guitar Published By Mel Bay Publications Inc. He Is Profiled In Marquis’ Who’s Who In The World. McMeen Practiced Law As His Primary Vocation In New York City For Many Years And Was A Partner In The New York City Law Firm Of LeBoeuf Lamb Greene & MacRae LLP Now Called Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP For 21 Years Until His Retirement In 2000. After Retirement From Law He Has Pursued Music And Lay Ministry Work Full-Time.

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