The kobza is fairly weel-kent tae ethnomusicologists and organologists. It
is sill used in parts of Hungary as well, and is regarded as a folk
instrument. It certainly does look similar to the Melrose lute. The lute
seems to have been born in Persia 2 to 3 thousand years ago and was known as
the
Jack Campin wrote:
There is a carving in Melrose Abbey of someone playing a small three-
course lute. This (if the carving is anywhere near as old as the
abbey itself) is by far the oldest documentation of any stringed
instrument in Scotland.
The type of lute was one I couldn't think of
cramphorne wrote:
Hi David-
Everything you might want to know about Hogg
(http://www.aikwoodscottishborders.com/final/hoggst~1.htm) PLUS a website for
the James Hogg Society (http://www.cc.gla.ac.uk/hogg.htm)? Someone there must
know the answers to your questions- good luck! Now I'm off
Aikwood? Sounds like Judy's work - will take a look... she rather nicked
Hogg for her own, though...
David
Or Hogg-ed him to herself.
Dave Francis
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John Chambers wrote:
Jack Campin writes:
| Maybe the Kirghiz got it from Persia, but I can't see how any chain
| of influence could have transmitted an instrument design from Persia
| to Scotland in the Middle Ages either.
Not much mystery there, actually. The Norse were trading
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
David Kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any enlightenment on the location for Kilmeny...
I'm not sure if this question is as simple as it sounds, but there's a
Kilmany (pronounced Kilmeny) in North Fife (North of Cupar), where Lady
Kilmany resides.
It
David wrote:
| John Chambers wrote:
| Jack Campin writes:
| | Maybe the Kirghiz got it from Persia, but I can't see how any chain
| | of influence could have transmitted an instrument design from Persia
| | to Scotland in the Middle Ages either.
|
| Not much mystery there, actually. The
English (Worcestershire) songwriter Dave Boothroyd asked me to try a recording of a
song
he wrote in 1997 called 'The Fields of the West', in the style of an Irish/Scots
ballad of
emigrant longing for an imaginary home country. It opens -
'Oh my heart is ever yearning for the clear air of the
