There is now a blog entry for this video: typehead.net/2020/07/01/37-scottish-lute-music-on-a-ukulele/

Oh, this is so lovely. Stops me in my tracks on a stressful day.

Thank you Rob. That was so beautiful, it made my day.

Always a pleasure watching your videos

Thank you! The intimate dimension of your music is heartwarming.

I needed this Rob, thank you so much... Get better soon!

It sounds beautiful. I'm glad to see that you're doing well and exploring music. I know how hard (and expensive) it can be when you feel restless and start searching for a new instrument that speaks to you.

Every time I get notified about a new video from you I go: "YES!!!!" Glad to see you, stay safe! Thanks for your video!

Keep on recovering, and thank you for the lovely generous music.

Thanks for posting Rob - lovely music, as always - hope your recovery is swift.

Beautiful work Rob! Thanks! Wishing you a full and complete recovery!

Beautiful, very sweet!! Well done!! Very nice instrument! I wish you the best!

Glad to see that you are feeling better! Your playing is, as always, an inspiration! Thank you!

Good to see you Rob! Glad you're on the mend.

That was lovely, Rob. Nice to see that you've been feeling well enough to play some wonderful Scottish lute music on your uke. :)

fantastic sr..

Get better soon Mr MacKillop! That was brilliant, thanks!

so good to see and hear you ag in as always, Rob, hope you mend very soon and gain more energy and strength to enjoy all your creative joys again, as someone said, we need and love you 😊♥️ loved the tunes, thank you!

Very nice as usual,all the best with recovery....

Beautiful!

Rob, I really am enjoying the music you're playing, I'm writing while listening, also I have read your description after listening your speech, I like the detail of putting the time when music starts, even though I really like knowing a little of the context about the things you're about to play, it's just because I try to figure what you thought when you decided to put that. Anyway, thanks for sharing this pieces, I like them a lot, greetings from Colombia.

Great music. Thank you.

Beautiful music as always Rob! I really hope you get better soon. I’ve been watching your channel for the last 4 years, it was my 21st birthday last week. It’s videos like this that help keep me motivated for music. :)

Enjoyed this very much. Might need to try that 5ths tuning. Sorry to hear that you were ill. Hope you fully recover quickly.

Hope you’re completely well by now. I really enjoy your videos. Gonna go to your blog right away :) Best wishes.

I'm so sorry to hear you've been struck. So nice to hear your music again. Your uke books have helped me so much through exhausting illness. Thinking of you. Best wishes from Melbourne, Australia.

Beautiful, haunting, I’m so glad you are on the mend and have 17thc lute music to “go back to” even without the lute. Your uke is very resonant and sweet.

Magnifique 😊👏

Lovely stuff. Take care.

Thank you for the inspiring music once again. Wishing you strength and positivity for your recovery. To me, you're an unusually inspiring and likable person.

Good to see you back! Beautiful music as always...

Those are some bonny tunes there Rob.Nice of you to drop by now and then- a pleasant surprise, in fact !

It is soooo nice! 💗🧡💛

Beautiful! Get well soon

Rob, I've been very concerned about your Covid bout. I'm happy and grateful that you are recovering! The beauty of your artistry coupled with the humility of your character results in a principled but also "comfortable" approach to classical that I appreciated when studying with you and still benefit from in your videos. We need you, Rob. You are so unique in the guitar world. Thank you so much for everything and please continue to take care, my friend and teacher. Cliff Mayes

Rob, the uke absolutely sings under your fingers. Scottish soul music

Sorry to hear the virus got you, but good to see you recovering! Take care.

I always wondered what kind of person buys old typewriters. I had a look at some of the typing on your blog and I can see why you like them, so much nicer than computers. Brilliant musician and photographer, I'm so envious, lol. You're ace. I hope you get better soon. :)

So glad to see you making a good recovery. Take it slowly. I recently bought your book on Bach's Cello suite for Tenor Banjo, which I find excellent. I don't have a Banjo but I do have a Tenor guitar in CGDA which I love, and I've strung my Tenor Uke the same way, and I love it. The Uke string set for CGDA fifths tuning is: Aquila 31U. Thanks so much Rob and take care.❤️🎸🎶

So sorry to learn you’ve been so ill and very happy to know you’re on the mend. I am loving this beautiful music played by you on ukulele. I was playing from your Sanz book just an hour ago. Your ukulele books have been a joy in my life. Thank you for them!

Sweet music, Rob! Please take care of yourself! Just to give you a smile, I will admit to have taken up the modern cittern and the multitude of tunings is threatening to cause my head to explode. :)) Rest up. Be well

Hauntingly beautiful...lovely. Thank you!☹️

Rob, you save my day everytime you let us folks participate with your thoughts, poems and music! Once more, I enjoyed your playing very much. I guess your mandolin book is my next uke-challenge after trying some movements of the bach suites (without reaching to your knees, though). The Buddha-like quote of your blues-book has become my Mantra, not only when playing: "Take it slow and easy. Don't push yourself too hard." It's simply THE KEY! My other favorites are: "440Htz is for suckers!" and "Don't let the bastards grind you down!". Sure as hell I'll shortly have them printed on my shirts in Remington Noiseless type. Please recover quickly and completely! And don't push yourself too hard! ;-)

Haunting beautiful music and playing. Get better soon Rob !!

Thanks Rob! I repurposed my ukulele from a low G (Ohta-san) set up to a 5ths tuning in D with the Aquila Reds. I like the 5ths tuning quite a lot. I always thought the "old timey" re -entrant A tuning of the ukulele was sweeter than the re-entrant G.

Sooo sends me to sleep In a nice way lol Lovely tone to your uke 👍

That got my motor running. A ukulele ,tuned like a viol or mandolin ,is getting my muse all hot and bothered. I’m finding myself obsessing over the idea of playing a mandolin piece called the “Dixie Rag” on fifth tuned ukulele. I’m just beginning to be able to breathe through my nose again after I had the new “cootie” in February. I’m suspecting that it leaves a lot of systemic micro damage that takes a while to get over. Hang in there. I’m just starting to perk up a little after four months. The stuff is not the flu and it’s no joke. It’s frustrating to feel so exhausted. Some kind of whole body exercise definitely helps.Good luck. I really like the black and white video. It evokes a comfortable dream like quality.

Always fascinated by the ukulele, many years ago it was my first intrument. Hope you will recover soon.

Typehead appears to have lapsed into a placeholder website. Might have to use the web archive to find Rob's posts.

Beautiful. I converted one of my old tenor ukuleles to 5ths tuning based on your recommendations in a previous video and I am enjoying it immensely. Are you playing from one of you books here? If so, which one? Thank you.

Rob, When playing the tenor uke tuned to fifths what is your general approach to which fingers own which frets? Having studied the video a few times I think you are favouring the mandolin fingering, but then at points you were using your pinky on the fifth fret. Are you effectively using a combination of the two? On a similar vein should a player like me coming from the mandolin, retain the accepted logic there that the fingers should be angled across the frets rather than parallel to them? Again it appears that generally you do this, but then you adopt the parallel method that guitarists/uke players might use at some other points. I suppose maybe an accomplished multi-instrumentalist like yourself can do that, but what is best for the uke beginner coming across from mandolin to the fifths tuned uke?

Tuning the ukulele in 5ths results in a short tenor guitar. Will Fly has done some interesting videos on one.

Beautiful work. Is that a concert or tenor? I’m new to the world of ukes, but I play mando.

This was so enjoyable! Your ukulele sounds wonderfully resonant. What kind is it?

Rob, The ukulele in fifths sounds great and prompted me to buy your mandolin book. Did you use the Aquila 31U set that David Malloy mentioned he used for CGDA tuning. Don’t think you’re playing GDAE, so probably you’re CGDA? Thanks, Adrian

I see that in 5th tuning your first finger is mostly at the 2nd fret and most of the notes are fretted.

Great! Is it a tenor or baritone ukulele?