--- Eaton Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Roy Trotter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: 13 October 2006 09:37 > > To: [email protected] > > > > Irish sessions are > > boring with dragging out the same 30 tunes every time and we have > to > > play the version that whoever knows. > > I can sympathise with that feeling! But to be honest, Roy, I reckon > this > jaded feeling is a fairly common phenomenon at sessions of all ilk, > particularly if there's a slow turn-over of session members. "jaded feeling" I like that. The problem difference between Irish and French is that one can't improvise harmony on Irirsh sessions. The French things, you can play those A LOT and keep adding new ideas, which keeps 'em a little fresher. There is a type of egghead that that has very limited ideas about what is Traditional (I'm at work and this is e-mail so and HTML coding depends on whether you have it enabled but please read "traditional" in 48 point Copperplate italics and ( I don't know how to code this:) steeped in an aura of sanctity. Most of the time you know better, but you have the chivalric restriction again fighting a battle of wits with the unarmed, and the thing about argueing with fools, yr not gonna convince them, only make a fool of yourself. Maybe the French/Euros have the same thing, but they are speaking French/Euro so I don't understand a word of it....problem solved. > I'm convinced that this isn't because the HG has the wrong sound for > the > music, but more that I have developed an Anglo-French 'accent' in my > playing. I suspect it is largely to do with the way I ornament my > melody. > > This notion of 'accent' can be quite pronounced in some instruments > and with > some musical traditions. So I imagine it would be quite easy to > distinguish > someone brought up in the Irish tradition playing the same tune as > someone > brought up in, say, the Finnish, or the Hungarian traditions. > > Has anyone ever experienced this phenomenon of regional 'accents' in > hurdy-gurdy playing? If asked to play a particular piece of music, > do you > think you would be able to tell the difference between a Vielleuse, a > 'Tekerist' and a hurdy-gurdy player, for example? I can sometimes tell listening to a fiddler if they learned the tunes from a piper or a banjo player, etc, and I am aware of "accent" in playing. Again with fiddle... the Bourbonais guys have a different sound than the Breton guys, but they are not playing the same tunes so I'm not sure. I know a guy that cared a lot about that very issue and it might be a good thing to discuss with him. If I can get him to codify on an e-mail, I'll fwd.
