Thanks Colin,
I wondered if it was a straightforward as that, it was the "cut & dry"
bit which for some reason sounded like something more may be intended.
We even had corn dollies this far down towards the equator! And the
practice of making them from the last few stalks standing, so that the
spirit of the field or whatever has taken refuge in them, and that's
what you break out over next year's sowing.
Best wishes,
Richard.
[email protected] wrote:
Dear Richard,
A corn dolly is something to do with the harvest that is made with
corn stalks. All sorts of original and traditional designs have been
made either as fertility symbols or to be worn on the lapel to show
you were available for hire as a farm worker or were hired. The term
'cut and dry' obviously had more meaning in the 18th Cent or earlier
when the tune was written and named but it just simply refers to the
corn stalks and what they were used to make, apart from musical
instruments blown in the mouth with holes burnt into the stalk and the
end chewed to make a double beating reed like a direct forerunner to
our own NSP chanter with its parallel bore.
Cheers,
Colin R
-----Original Message-----
From: Richard York <[email protected]>
To: NSP group <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 9:37
Subject: [NSP] Cut & Dry Dolly
To reveal myself as a Softie Southerner who probably pronounces Bath
as Barth and thinks there are only wolves & polar bears North of
Watford ;-) ...please, what is a "Cut & Dry Dolly"?
It suggests corn stooks to me, but this might be the wrong tree
entirely.
Thanks,
Richard.
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