> So we could have foregone the entire debate then? <grin> No, it's been worth it - I'm seriously concerned that the traditional way of playing our instrument will be swept away in a wave of Pan-Celtic "syncopated jiggery" (as a uilleann piper from Heaton once called it)
I'm off to join a fiddlers' email list. I can't play the fiddle, but I'm sure the members of that list will be enthralled with my suggestion that Nathaniel Gow held his bow wrongly <grin> Chris -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
