Hello also from me to Rob whose music Ive heard a wee bit on the radio and
liked a lot. I've got a copy of your guitar tunes book and I'll learn to
murder a few on my melodyun.
For those of you who can spare a few minute from the ardous task of
republishing all the extant printed trad music so the bar lines line up,here
is the most recent tale of fallen fiddlers.It was late Friday night at
Fiddle 2000, "Heat the Hoose" was in full swing upstairs in the great music
hall of the auld Assembley Rooms(Embra).[In the ballroom of which Nathanial
Gow would hold his balls(thanks Stuart!)].Special guest,ex pupil of Hector
McAndrew,composer of brilliance, Aberdeenshire loon, and Fiddle Deity
Incarnate,Bert Murray M.B.E.(87) walked down all but one of the 6 steps of
the Supper room. As with all the other fiddling victims, it was for no
apparent reason related to whiskey,that he suddenly found himself taking a
heidur flarewords. Deftly he took most of the force on his ample knees,
twisting nimbly to batter his right hip to protect his bow arm, thus ending
neatly on his back. The Applause was mighty. Bert(92) resumed his seat,took
up the fiddle and gave us "The Dean Brig". As the last strains died away
"Aye Whaurs yer Frasers noo" cried auld Bert(89).
Theory 1: If you consistantly play up bows with more vigour than down bows
you will accumulate a build up of gravitational deficiancy which will be
forced into equillibrium by a sudden fall.
By the Way Norman Chalmers reminds me that the original name of 70,s
supergroup "Not the Full Shillin" was "The Broken Settee". We already had an
intuition of the fallings to come.
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AY STAN
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