Hello Margaret
Do you have any more info about William Dobson?
Are you suggesting that he used dots in performance?
In my 20+ years playing up north I got to at least a couple of hundred
dances, parties, sessions, music evenings & concerts with a fair few
established players and never saw a page of dots used once. Quite a few
Scottish players brought their dots with them to perform and Joe began
to use them when teaching bigger classes but the concept of regular
players relying on dots is almost unthinkable to me. Perhaps there was
some sort of east/west/north/south divide?? Possibly not when we
remember that Morpeth Gathering rules at one time penalised players for
using dots - is that still the case I wonder?
Cheers
Anthony
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Subject: [NSP] Re: [BULK] Re: [nsp] file - William Darling
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Date: Tuesday, 3 November, 2009, 9:13 AM
Yes, the William Darling is Grace Darling's father. It's a lovely
little manuscript, currently on loan to the RNLI Museum at Bamburgh.
William Dobson's manuscript also contains a list of tunes he could
play, neatly divided up according to key signature; he obviously didn't
feel the need to write down tunes he could play without dots!
Best wishes
Margaret
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John
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This is fascinating stuff. Thanks, Margaret.
BTW, could the William Darling whom you mention possibly be Grace
Darling's
dad? The date you give could fit.
Cheers, Paul Gretton
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