Jack Campin (Scots musician and social historian, uk.music.folk regular) sent me a GIF image of a guittar duet published by Bremner in the mid 1700s of this piece. I've assembled it for a single Tacoma Papoose (about the same size as a Scottish guittar of the period) tuned GDgcea and put it on my mp3.com. Streaming RealAudio of this sounds AWFUL - unbelievably warbly and garbled - and I found the the LAME mp3 encoder algorithm was very bad with it too, ended up trying several encoders before I got a decent sound from this tiny high pitched instrument. The so-called hi-fi mp3 file is fine, in the end, and gives a reasonable rendering of how the Papoose's built-in piezo records. It is strung with 12-56 phosphor bronze 'nameless' web sourced strings and put through a Trace TAP-1 with Trace 'shape' switched on (the pickup in my Papoose is passive). The recording lasts just under 4 minutes and goes through the two main parts of this awful 18th century march several times. Jack says the Edinburgh Trained Bands were ineffectual middle-class voluntary police organisations and you can easily imagine them playing this on bugles or hunting horns while marching, with all the quality of a Mexican wedding party band! Due to the Handel-esque dotted rythm parts of it are really unpleasant to play, but overall the effect is rewardingly, er, different. http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/900/900446.html David Kilpatrick Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
