Was the slave ship anything to do with negroes?
All the comments about Gaelic slaves are really interesting and I hope to
read more about them on this List. Keep them coming.
However, I orginally asked about Burns the 'Negro-driver' - no Gaels
mentioned there, nor in his 'Slaves Lament' which
When I looked over the multipage ad flyer that was sent out listing
all the performers and events at the Glasgow Celtic Connections, I
was VERY surprised to note that tho there were lots of fiddlers
performing there wasn't a single fiddle workshop!!! Yes, I believe
there was a tune workshop
In a message dated 1/16/01 4:28:39 AM Eastern Standard Time,
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He may have thought, in an
idealised moment, that slavery was wrong, but he obviously was prepared to
accept it and engage himself in its practices had his poems failed to sell.
Reminds one of Thomas
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whether they
decided to stay or go home once freed
Now this is a piece of the puzzle we had lost! My Grandfather's grandparents
must have (might have?) gone back to Scotland. 'cause the thing that has
confused me is how his grandparents were here, yet he was
Oops!!
My earlier e-mail today [January 16] should have read "eighth" notes
not eight. Sorry.
Alexander
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Susan Tichy wrote:
...or thought in a despairing moment that he would have to do whatever
offered itself... much as a musician might contemplate a brokerage firm
on a really, really bad day.
Are you really comparing being a Negro-driver to working for a brokerage
firm? That latter might be
Stuart opined:
The principal conclusions are:
1Skinner could certainly do it
2The birl is very fast ( 0.320 sec, approx)
3The third note is considerably longer than the first two in the
proportions 1 : 1 : 3
This is a birl as part of the melody of the tune - for many
