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
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Just got a version of Young Waters on my mp3.com page:
http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/906/906697.html
Very straightforward with guitar accompaniment tracking the melody.
- David Kilpatrick
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No, a sycamore is a different tree. We have sycamore trees in this part of
Canada. They are the ones that look like they don't have any bark. I don't
know if it is related to the European sycamore.
Sycamore is European maple. What US instrument builders call figured maple
is called
To clarify again for the benefit of US/Cab friends:
You were told wrong. The term "sycamore" refers to members of the
genus Platanus, aka "plane tree". There are lots of species native to
Eurasia, Africa and North America. Americans generally call them all
"sycamore".
The point is
Here's a question that begs to be asked: What woods ARE native to Scotland?
Which of those woods would have been usable in making harps?
Oak, ash, Scots pine (but not Douglas fir or continental spruce, rowan,
holly, elder, birch, hazel, plum, gean (wild cherry - grows huge and the
wood is
In a message dated 9/15/00 2:20:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you do have broken harp I would be very interested in buying it and
studying the way it's made, perhaps with a view to using the arm and
crossbar and making a complete new soundbox.
Hi David,
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, David Kilpatrick wrote:
I'm curious one day to find a wire harp - never seen one here in Scotland -
and yes, I would like to try repairing something like that, but you are
quite right about the carriage.
There are none in Scotland?? Aren't wire harps
Hello,
Well, this could be lively! I'm afraid I must respectfully disagree with you
David!
To begin with, certainly the wire harp came later than the earliest harps,
such as the horse hair harp, because the invention of the wire harp had to
wait until people had figured out how to make
on this instrument
and he's written at least one tune good enough for other players to have it
in their repertoire locally.
Martin is also a serious mainstay of sessions at the Pilot Inn,
Berwick-on-Tweed, Thursday nights, and the Red Lion, Kelso, Friday nights.
David Kilpatrick
Kelso
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Originally we had a long discussion through RMMGA on the true history
of the guitar - basically trying to refute the assertion of classical
guitarists that gut/nylon strings are the only proper type of string,
all the way back through history, and that steel strings in general are
a
We're not sure about the pitch of voices in the past; one of your problems
with singing anything from 18th c Scottish MS is that the intended pitch is
at least one tone, maybe 1.5 tones, lower than the notation makes it appear,
due to the change in concert pitch to our higher 440=A tuning.
Rhona MacKay, who has a house here on Easdale Island, plays harp with them,
and Rab Wallace, who used to have a house here on Easdale Island, was/is
there piper.
They are still gigging 'cause I've heard Rhona mention forthcoming gigs.
Any houses going on Easdale island? Never seem to get
Stephen:
Funny you should ask David, 'cause there are quite a few for sale just now
ranging from 48 to 95 grand. Another musician bought a house a few months
ago, a guy called Alastair from Glasgow (I think). I don't know much about
him but a band called the The Zydeco Ceilidh Band were
We had the launch of this CD in the Cross keys pub in Denholm on Thursday
night. It was a really special occasion because Bob Hobkirk came out of his
"retirement" to play a number of tunes. Despite ill-health Bob bowed
beautifully and the rhythm was still there - he's little power in his
have those words!
David Kilpatrick
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If you'll recall, during the Plantation in the 1600s, a great many
Lowland Scots emigrated to Northern Ireland as part of a plan to
protestantize Ireland. The Lowland Scots took their language with
them-- Lallans--
They took Scots with them; "Lallans" means the mid-20th-century literary
David Kilpatrick wrote:
...do you mind if I pass this on in future to local traditional singers,
with due credit to you, whatever their opinion of it?...
Never mind any credit - I just note anything of interest in my periodic
trawl through libraries, but please do pass it on to anyone
on 24/10/2000 2:29 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Regarding the "backwards playing" of the bagpipes
This is absolutely fascinating for this harper. There is a huge debate as to
whether all the ancient harpers played on the left shoulders, so that the
left hand played the
on 23/11/2000 5:02 pm, SUZANNE MACDONALD at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Re Toby Rider's request for music to "Blue Bonnets Over the Border" , I
goofed again in yesterday's e-mails, my references to the Athole
collection should have read the Skye collection. Irony of ironies the
6/8 Bb version
I liked this ballad, which I've never heard recorded anywhere, when I saw
the structure of the tune in the Greig-Duncan Collection. Also, I've been
looking and continue to look for any ballads which mention the Borders. So
in this version I've nicked the Laird of Home from one of the variants and
on 24/11/2000 5:44 am, Bruce Olson at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ewan MacColl recorded it on an LP, one of 8 recordings of Child
ballads by himself and A. L. Lloyd. Originally on the Riverside
label, then reissued on the Washington label, #723. He implied
his tune was from a fragment from his
are on yourself (I assume!).
David Kilpatrick
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on 29/11/2000 8:19 am, Ian Brockbank at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
No, this is not a question about Artificial Intelligence and
computer-generated music. It's rather simpler.
A friend is trying to persuade a very talented Scottish Dancing pianist
and composer to publish some of
on 28/11/2000 7:00 pm, Philip Whittaker at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Regarding the Coldstream Gaitherin 2001,
Ted Hastings wrote
I do have one query. The May holiday weekend is normally the time for the
long-running Girvan Folk Festival. Unless it's changed for next year
I don't see much
just been revised.
David Kilpatrick
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on 14/12/2000 4:17 pm, Rob MacKillop at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder which version is in your c. 1695 collection, Rob? Do you have
access
to the Museum, can you compare and edify us?
If I find the time, I shall put the Balcarres version on my website sometime
during the next week. It
on 15/12/2000 5:27 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Rob,
Well, I didn't think I was uncovering anything dark and secret: I had heard
of the quote, but never was CONVINCED it was real, and I don't think I've
ever actually heard it in it's entirety before.
But seeing it in
on 16/12/2000 9:30 am, Rob MacKillop at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I shall also
play the original version of Ae Fond Kiss which James Oswald wrote and
described as being written by Rorie Dall, just as he claimed other of
compositions as being by Rizio - which gave an air of antiquity to his
on 18/12/2000 1:00 pm, Derek Hoy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Her Maj today declared that as part of the Millennium Fun, Inverness is a
City.
Only 3 new cities for the whole of the UK, which is a bit mean. She could
have amused herself better by introducing a few wild cards- like Dechmont
on 18/12/2000 8:21 pm, Ted Hastings at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How about:
ITC's Farewell to Inverness
78th's Welcome To Inverness
High Road To Inverness, The
Inverness Bonnie Braes Pipe Band
Inverness Bridge
Inverness Fiddler, The
Inverness Gathering
Inverness Lasses
Inverness
on 19/12/2000 10:03 am, Nigel Gatherer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
A pastime amongst the youth of Crieff is to
add a stroke to the town's signs to spell Grieff. Unfortunately there's
precious little else for them to do here apart from vandalism and
drinking. I'm not optimistic enough to
on 19/12/2000 5:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In America, you're a city
if you want to be. I mean, I don't think it takes an act of Congress or a
Presidential Proclamation for a place to refer to itself as a city. You just
look around, say to yourself, "Hmm, we're big,
y magazine article which made Orlando
Gibbons the bloke who carved the woodwork at Chatsworth, and I'm sure C K
Sharpe has been credited with the invention of the bicycle more than once.
David Kilpatrick
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on 20/12/2000 11:42 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 17/12/00 8:33:10 pm, writes:
C sharpe is the bloke wot collected Scottish ballads.
Oh dear! No "e" for C Sharp, and he never collected Scottish Ballads, but
Confined his collecting to the south of
on 24/12/2000 4:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But is it CathCAART or or CathCAIRT?...You're going to be in for an
interesting time getting USAns to do Scots vowels.
HA! Well, I must tell you, we got into Edinburgh for our first visit to
Message posted on rec.music.celtic
--
From: "DL" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster
Newsgroups: rec.music.celtic
Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2000 02:26:59 GMT
Subject: Celtic Christmas IV lyrics request
On the Windam Hill CD: Celtic
on 29/12/2000 12:14 pm, Nigel Gatherer at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
David Francis wrote:
...This thread throws up the major question of what constitutes a good
tune. Most of the instrumental music that we play started life as dance
music, 'competent and good enough for dancing' as Nigel put
on 30/12/2000 5:20 pm, Jonathan Hill at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Did Ewan MacColl write The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face for his daughter
Kirsty or is that mythology?
Peggy Seeger implies, when talking about this song, that it was about her.
She does not say so directly but it's pretty
!
David Kilpatrick, Kelso, Scotland.
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on 4/1/2001 2:50 am, Toby Rider at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually the biggest factor with it is that you have to have a
dedicated leased line to the Internet with enough bandwidth to support
some streams at a decent level. The Shoutcast site points directly back
to me and the streams come
on 3/1/2001 10:51 pm, Toby Rider at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you have anything you'd like to hear played, tell me where it is and
I will go download it and work it into the playlist. That goes for
anyone who plays Scottish music and would like some free exposure for
their music.
Toby,
, but being Katherine Tickell's dad is enough to pardon that...
David Kilpatrick
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Title: Re: [scots-l] For bigheidit Toffs only:
on 10/1/2001 11:41 pm, stan reeves at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
NOW
66 landowners own one quarter of Scotlands 19 million acres
120 own one third
343 own one half
1252 own two thirds
40% can trace their family land holding beyond the sixteenth
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gaelic speaking Scottish slaves, children rounded up by the burgesses of
the port towns and shipped to the Americas for cash.
This is really interesting to me. My grandfather Ogilvie always told me his
grandparents came to this
.
The story is told by Buchan as a note to 'The Virginia Maid's Lament',
one of the few of his collected ballads which deals with emigration/US matters.
David Kilpatrick
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Jack Campin wrote:
Peter Williamson, aka "Indian Peter", who went on to set up a postal
service and published the first postal directory of Edinburgh. See
Kay's "Edinburgh Portraits", or pretty much any book about 18th century
Edinburgh, he was a very well-known character. He turned into
Rob MacKillop wrote:
There's a chance I will be doing my History of the Guitar in Scotland
project either as a book or as a PhD. However it turns out, I have to start
by confessing that I have an embarrassing ignorance of the 'unique' (I am
informed) style of Shetland guitar playing in
Rob MacKillop wrote:
David Kilpatrick wrote:
it's what I have learned from local
Shetland-style guitarists and various articles and stuff on the subject.
What articles and stuff? If I may ask...
Personal reminisences of those involved is clearly of great importance, but
so
Rob MacKillop wrote:
They also switched to mandolin at times to do some melody stuff. And that
led to the Shetland banjo style :)
Mercifully outwith my remit!
Rob, on mp3.com recently I found an artist claiming to have tunes from
15th Scottish mandora (sic) MS rearranged for (wait for
Rob MacKillop wrote:
I've just had a knock-back from the Crail Festival. Remember, James Oswald -
Scotland's finest 18th-century musician - was born there to a poor family
and rose to become the Chamber Composer to George III and muse to Robert
Burns. I offered to have the launch of my CD of
Rob MacKillop wrote:
By visiting museums of historical instruments in Turkey and
Morocco, and observing 'folk' and 'classical' oudists, I hope to gain a
peephole into some of the influences on medieval Scottish lute playing.
Just don't make a hash of this one, like Davey Graham did, Rob...
THE BELOW BALLAD TEXT GOT POSTED ON REC.MUSIC.FOLK. - yes, it's garbled rubbish, but
look
at that last verse - a semi-literate American teenager in the 1850s somehow got a
fragment
about Johnny Armstrong handed down with a messed up recitation of Barbara Allen which
actually contains some good
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I personally never have called them "birls", always "cuts". I've heard
cuttings on the mando before. It can be done! :-)
I am unsure, still, about the subtle differences between birls and triplets as
translated
to fingerstyle or plectrum instruments. Tony
John Erdman wrote:
That tune is known in America as "the Streets of Laredo". Someone here claims
copyright to those words and the familiar melody (also used for the Bard of
Armagh) and that someone will not allow me permission to use it if I sell the
book outside of the U.S., which as a
Janice Hopper wrote:
Well, no, it isn't. A rock is another word for distaff, the holder for the
flax or wool that was being spun.
From M-W.com
Main Entry: 3rock
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English roc, from Middle Dutch rocke; akin
to Old High German rocko distaff
Date: 14th
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
stan reeves [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
"Pickle" is still in common usage in many parts of Scotland, but now
simply means a small amount of anything, not just grain...
Hi Stan. The old Scots saying "Mony a pickle maks a muckle" for some
reason underwent a
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
David Kilpatrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[re mickle/muckle/pickle]
Nigel, I thought this was an error too, but see Yorkshire/Cumbrian etc.
Mickle means small...I don't think pickle got changed to mickle, I think
mickle has been in Scotland as long as it's been
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
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
-string mixed in the
background.
David Kilpatrick
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Steve Wyrick wrote:
Well actually Fender did make an "Yngwie Malmsteen" custom model
Stratocaster with a scalloped fretboard for a number of years but as you
say, this never really caught on amongst guitarists. I suspect one reason
is that an electric guitarist can get many of the same
For some reason a track I recorded last summer is doing better than anything of mine
right
now on mp3.com. It is called 'The Grey Mare's Tail' (named for the waterfall between St
Mary's Loch and Moffat, not for the rear end of a horse, as one enthusiastic American
lady
decided when placing it
.
This nicht aneath yon stane I'll sleep
An' in warm airms ma cauld luv keep.
Open, open, wame of clay!
I'll live nae mair anither day.
Nae queen sall weep in Reynauld's tower;
His grave mun be his lady's bower.
David Kilpatrick, Kelso, December 1999
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. It is, as usual, almost unlistenable to in lo-fi streaming
but
sounds 'as played' if downloaded or hi-fi. It would probably work OK on whistle or
flute
but I think it would be unfiddlable.
http://artists.mp3s.com/artist_song/1354/1354446.html
- David Kilpatrick, Kelsae
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Jack C said that the last thing farmers wanted these days was a lament.
Well, my Scottish fingerstyle guitar lament called 'The Last Farmer' just made it to
No 1
in the mp3.com Edinburgh chart (this means six people had a listen...). I wonder if it
was
because I posted its URL to a few
For Rob MacKillop and anyone else interested in the 'Scottish guittar':
I just acquired a Victorian reprint of Percy's Reliques after years of looking for one
(also got an 1806 3rd edition of Scott's Minstrelsy... printed in Kelso... finally come
back home!). Thanks to Neil at Blackfriars Music
Rob MacKillop wrote:
I find it worrying that messages - even blanks - can be sent which appear
to originate
from me.
I wouldn't go as far as to describe your MP3 files as 'blanks' ;-)
Rob
If I ever attached one to a list or newsgroup message I think it prove to be the
opposite
-
be a few years old but the website appears
to be
fully functional and on this anniversary, I would just ask you to consider visiting the
site and giving to what has become an international fund to protect children from more
readily identified or anticipated harm.
David Kilpatrick, Kelso, Scotland
musicians
who have been associated with JAM over the past ten years. Young trio US3, pianist Rod
Ward, Border piper Matt Seattle, guitarists Joe Wallis and David Kilpatrick, and Border
fiddler Wattie Robson are all on the bill along with players from JAMs Abbey Row
Jazz
Band and rock groups
Coolpix 990, and they're very
detailed and accurate. They are put here at 500 pixels wide, med or high quality, and
are
about 50-80Kb each so they may take time to see. But they will give you information in
detail rather than just an impression.
David Kilpatrick
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Kate Dunlay or David Greenberg wrote:
I have just acquired a Scottish - possibly! - 18th c guittar - take a look...
http://www.maxwellplace.demon.co.uk/pandemonium/guitars.html
Wow, that's cool, David! Will you be keeping those pictures on your site?
They're great for reference when
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" wrote:
David Kilpatrick wrote:
I have just acquired a Scottish - possibly! - 18th c guittar - take a
look...
I am truly jealous. That's an incredible find! I perform at 18th century historic
sites and could use an instrument like that. How did you
as the front of the leaflet is a mini version of the poster. These two total only
46Kb and can be printed on your inkjet or viewed using Acrobat. Please feel free to
copy
and print any you like for your own club or friends, or for a number of 'printed'
copies,
email Liz Marroni - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David
Sally Greenberg wrote:
Scottish guitarist Tony McManus is returning for the 3rd time after 2
previous sell-outs to perform a concert at my house on Sunday, April 15th.
For those of you who don't know Tony, he is incredible. In 1996 I received a call from
an
Edinburgh music shop saying 'you
Stuart Eydmann wrote:
Have I stumbled on something really important?
Yes, the inability of Real Player to play backwards the way the old original Apple
Quicktime player can - so far all attempts to save the file, convert it and open in and
ancient Quicktime player have failed, but I have
Just a reminder that I have an mp3.com 'station' which plays at the moment approx 50
tracks all related to the Scottish Borders, and could do with more - they have to be on
mp3.com, I can't add mp3s or ra from other sites. Anything relating the the Border
tradition (Scott ballads, etc),
New' typeface (probably
Baskerville). It converted to PC Truetype well enough apparently.
David Kilpatrick
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Janice Lane wrote:
Thanks, Philip, for a fantastic weekend. The children in the Borders are
very lucky to have such caring adults providing such a variety of events. No
wonder they are so talented.
We moved the Kelso session on Friday night to Coldstream, arrived at
7.30pm (two hours
record labels are not interested in allowing any comer to
uplift their stock in trade and stick it on internet!
So the 'have on my list to digitize' statement is interesting. How do you go
about obtaining copyright clearance?
David Kilpatrick
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Bruce:
Jamie Moreira has just about finished the late Norman Buchan's
edition of the Glenbuchat Ballads MS. (to be published in 4
vols). This seems to the the sole source for the early Young
Graigston (Lang a-growing)
I would be very interested in that - publisher, price? I am not put off
and I'm already sounding
different a couple of days later (it's wonderful for campanella runs, which I did not
use
in this case, the opening phrase is on the top string starting at the 5th fret).
David Kilpatrick, Kelso, Scotland
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and events.
David Kilpatrick (Vice-Chair of JAM)
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will be turned into a year to make up for the
foot-and-mouth led disaster of 2001.
We intend to hold a meeting to from a committee, and make contact with
anyone who can be of help. Those who are interested should contact me on
Kelso (01573) 226032 or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
David Kilpatrick
W. B. OLSON wrote:
Can I try again to do that 5 verse version of John Anderson, my Jo
from 'Philomel', 1744, that I sang last Friday night? That verse where
the reciter of the traditional text in 'Philomel', forgot the 3rd and
4th lines of one verse and just repeated the 1st and 2nd, sort
George M R Duff wrote:
Hi David,
Serendipity or what?,I've just been asked this week to record an album of
Hogg's songs with Tony McManus,John Martin,Ian McInnes and Marc Duff as
backing musicians.I'll keep ypu informed of developments.
Hogg's songs are nearly all later than his
Keith W Dunn wrote:
Just what would be the deciding factor that would make it Scots Fiddle
music if you didn't know the origin or author?
a) the tune
b) the style of playing
In the first case you have total crossover and sharing anyway, but there
are trademarks of Irish tunes and
Eric Falconer wrote (re Billy and Me, Hogg):
My brother had to learn that at primary school and recite it. So he
practised at home over and over again. Funnily enough I've loved it ever
since.
It probably sounds perfect from the mouth of a six-year-old! I know what
you mean. Anything you
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
David K, what are your plans
for the Scottfest?
First priority - get our local paper NOT to spike my letters on the subject!
So far I've got myself dragged into an impromptu 1-minute interview with
Michael Aspel to go out next April in Antiques Roadshow from
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
I've played three great mandolins in my life:
Sam's Red Diamond, Mike's Nelson #3, and a friend's Vanden.
To me most mandos sound pretty good but if you'd like something quite
different I've just fixed up a rather crude, but impressive, 100+ year
old 12-string triple
W. B. OLSON wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Would anyone be able to tell me what the title Weary Pund o' Tow means?
Its the title of a slow air from Gow's 3rd Repository.
(snip)
There's another song that's related to Weary Pund o' Tow. It's called
Wary Bachelors in Jean Thomas's,
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
I have been contacted by a sixth year pupil who wants to do tenor banjo
as his second instrument for Higher Music (his first being euphonium!).
I told him that my adult mandolin class would not satisfy him (many of
the participants are picking up an instrument for the
Janice Hopper wrote:
At 12:36 PM 6/24/01 -0700, you wrote:
Would anyone be able to tell me what the title Weary Pund o' Tow
means? Its the title of a slow air from Gow's 3rd Repository.
Tow is wool in its unspun state. A pound of it represents one hell of
a lot of work ahead in
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
and Mr. Iain Fraser of Glasgow, Scotland.
You mean Mr Iain Fraser of Jedburgh, Scotland. Happily living in a
better place and running Calburnie Records which is his/Alastair's label
and doing excellent work getting the Borders fiddle tradition on record
for the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Re (scots) TOW
On the way to the Ligonier Highland Games last September we
stopped at
a festival in honor of flax--they had demonstrations of the whole
process and
the machines used. It is an annual event up there in Pennsylvania
(USA).
Interesting about
Jack Campin wrote:
- the ballad air Lord Gregory, which is in 7-bar phrases.
Eight bar phrases, surely?
This is the tune I know for it (from several sources):
X:1
T:Lord Gregory
B:Burns, Poems and Songs, OED collected edition
M:3/4
L:1/8
K:A Minor
A2 |e4 AB |({A}^G4)
PLEASE READ THIS CAREFULLY and *pass it on to anyone you know* who may
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diary of venues and sessions: I do not have a complete email address
list and your help in reaching others will be appreciated.
- David Kilpatrick, vice-chair
Janice Hopper wrote:
Ok, I have a question:
The Scottish Harp Society of America (SHSA) has recently revised its Rules
of Competition. One of the requirements states:
Music must be Scottish, or an explanation give as to the tune's
relationship to the Scottish tradition Scottish
Rita Hamilton wrote:
As Alsion Kinnaird says(Paraphrased):You can tell by my voice that I am from
Scotland. Thus you can also tell Scottish music when you hear it. I've heard
her say that often enough in US Scottish Harp Competitions. And, when you hear
her speak, you know she's Scottish.
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