Re: [scots-l] What makes a style Scottish?

2001-07-21 Thread Nigel Gatherer
Jack Campin wrote: There are pipe tunes in G. Like what? Miss Menzies The Right Honble Lady Elcho Thro' the Muir She Ran Stormont Lads (all from The Piper's Assistant - perhaps they're fiddle tunes adapted?) Second Jig by Pipe Sergeant E MacDonald The Red Brae by PM W Ross The Clucking Hen

Re: [scots-l] What makes a style Scottish?

2001-07-21 Thread David Kilpatrick
Jack Campin wrote: Another table is pertinent to a discussion we had a few weeks ago; the lists of historic fundamental pitches beginning on p.495 show how fantastically implausible it is that anyone in Britain in the mid-to- late 18th century would have used a pitch below A=390, even for