Noel Jackson aksed > I also have a querie for general Scottish comment.. how do you make > the RSCDS version of the fairy Dance go against the Gow tune with the > Scott skinner variations. If you do it at reel speed to make the > dancers trip lightly, the variations are impossible, if you play the > variations at anything like a reasonable speed the dance seems to > drag...
I wouldn't have thought you'd play the variations for dancing, but as a show tune, or a show-off tune. Skinner might have played it on the concert stage, rather as Aly Bain did in a fiddle stand-off (with American fiddler Mark O'Connor, if I remember correctly). Nobody would dance to these sort of fireworks. -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
