Just a couple of snippets in response to queries in this thread.
The album 'The Caledonian Companion' (nothing to do with the fiddle tune
book of the same name) which Nigel mentioned is available on CD, re-released
by Greentrax a couple of years ago. It's part of a re-release programme
called 'Classics of Scotland', which saw a number of great recordings, many
from the Topic archives, made available again. There doesn't seem to have
been much in the series recently though. As Nigel says, The Caledonian
Companion has some excellent moothie playing from the late Willie Fraser, as
well as some fine whistle playing from Alec Green. Some of the fiddling is
a bit rough and ready, but it's a great album of proper traditional music
from the North East.
Bob - moothie is the colloquial Scots term for the mouth organ, or
harmonica, although I like the idea of it being a Scots term for Gaelic
mouth music. ('Haw, Ishbel, gie's some o yon moothie, hen!')
Nothing to do with music this one, but the ISBN is made up of four elements.
The first group of digits refers to the language (0 or 1 for English), and
the next group the publisher. The third group is the unique number referring
to the volume, and the final digit is a check digit worked out using a
mathematical formula far beyond my ken. So, if an edition is put out by two
different publishers in the UK and the US, it will have two ISBN's.
David Francis
t/f (44) (0)131 557 1050 (o); (44) (0)131 669 8824 (h)
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