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

[David Kilpatrick]

Toby Rider wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, John Chambers wrote:
> 
> > So you'd think that fiddlers with a classical background  would  know
> > and understand that different musical groups use different intonation
> > rules.  Traditional Scottish music shouldn't be anything  other  than
> > yet another sort of intonation, to be mastered if you want to pass as
> > a Scottish fiddler.
> 
>         You would think that this would be the case. However it so often
> isn't the case, that I forever swore off playing in an group with more
> then two other fiddles.
> 
Some local musicians with a well-known wee band were after 18
microphones and a monster mixing desk - one mike for each players,
including one per fiddle. This is not apparently to make them louder.
It's so they can secretly turn the mike DOWN on one or two of the
fiddlers who have a different idea about intonation, tempo (etc, etc)
compared to all the others :-)

DK
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