Re: [scots-l] What makes a style "Scottish?"

[David Kilpatrick]

Wendy Galovich wrote:
> 

> 
> There is a recording floating around, of Mary MacDonald playing MacLean's
> Farewell to Oban, where she is hitting the C's and G's *exactly* between the
> sharp and natural position (I tried playing along with this a few times
> because I wanted to be sure I understood what I was hearing), and her tempo
> is moderate enough that I could only assume she was hitting those pitches
> deliberately. That recording happens to be one of the pipey-est pieces of
> fiddling I've ever heard, bar none.
> 

I should have said in my earlier post that the fiddler I was learning (a
guitar accompaniment) with was also a Border pipe player and the tune
was a pipe tune. The 'sharp 7th' was not an accident of bad playing, it
was entirely deliberate and a hallmark of the tune coming from the
temperament of the pipes - which sounds to be the case above, as well.

David
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