Indeed, more & more interesting.
I still feel it sounds convincingly more Welsh than Scots once you hear
it with appropriate chords, all dark and minor. (Not miner)
Not that I'm at all stubborn.... :-)
Richard.
On 27/04/2010 20:13, Francis Wood wrote:
On 27 Apr 2010, at 19:50, Julia Say wrote:
I'd also heard this one, but with the instrument as a military fife, which had
a d#
key. I think there was speculation that this is why the seventh key to be
placed on
an nsp chanter was that d#.
Interesting thought. There are very few known 6 key chanters, though. Perhaps 5
or 6. One formerly belonged to Burl Ives.
Haydn was another admirer of the Roslyn Castle melody and included it among the
songs he arranged for the Edinburgh publisher George Thomson.
Francis
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