In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Jack Campin wrote:
> >
> > > People have been commenting extensively on Andy Dejarlis Jig, but I'd
> > > like to add that I think for The Sailor's Wife Em is a more usual key
> > > than Dm.
> >
> > Not here it isn't - people play it in D minor or not at all (despite
> > it being in print in E minor for well over a century).
> >
> I would think that it's alot easier to play in D minor, at least on the
> fiddle. Can it even be played on wind insturments in Em?
Why not? It lies quite nicely on the whistle in Em. I must say I prefer it
in E minor, and I've heard it played here in that key.
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