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

[SUZANNE MACDONALD]

In response to my comment;
If the interval between A and a flatted C#
> were a deliberate musical choice in the key of A major then the
interval
> between G and B in the key of G major should also be a flatted B. It
> never is.

David Kilpatrick wrote:

You've never tuned a guitar by ear then.

My comment:

David you've missed the point completely. The reference was to fiddlers
known tendency to play middle finger notes approximately mid way between
the index and ring fingers as was described in Perlman's book on PEI
fiddlers giving a flat C# in the key of A major; and that if this were a
deliberate choice of interval then when playing the same or a similar
tune in G major they should play a flatted B so as to get the same
interval but they don't.  Therefore the former interval choice wasn't a
musical one but rather what  Honeyman calls slovenly fingering.

Alexander



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