>>> 'Da Mirrie Dancers' was one of my first book of tunes. I can't find >>> a source for it now- is it available? Somebody pinched my original. >> The Shetland Times office in Lerwick. > That's what I thought, but it's not listed on their web site so maybe > it's out of print now?
I got mine last year; my girlfriend was visiting Shetland for the day and got it for me there. Also "The Shetland Violinist" volume 1 (Gideon Stove's tunes) - tricky stuff, you don't hear many of them played down here. She also got me a copy of John Graham's Shetland Dictionary - they must have more words relating to cold, wet and darkness than any other dialect, and lots of words like this: pyaag (v): to labour with great effort and in an exhausted state. "Auld Willie wis pyaagin awa wi da sye ida coarn-rig but makkin little redd". =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
