Greetings all, As an intermediate (I think) isolated self-taught nsper in search of information and advice, I have a few questions.
Did the various contributors to the debate agree on a definition of choyting? If so, what was it? Are, for example, uilleann-type cuts out? Is the E gracenote in the second full bar of part two of the holey hapenny in the nsp soc's first tunebook a written-out choyte or are we seriously supposed to separate it from the D? Help!!! I noticed late last night that the passage of music reproduced on the bottom left-hand corner of the front cover of the Clough book includes pairs of notes with slurs over them and an F# gracenote between the final two low Es, which are joined by a tie. How are we to interpret these? (assuming that the passage is from a clough manuscript and not any old bit of music stuck there for decoration). Another point is that the Peacock collection (I have the facsimile edition, which contains a few obvious errors) is described as being adapted for violin or flute as well as the allthumbrain smallpipes so maybe we can safely ignore some of the markings. chirs To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
