Nigel:
this was an interesting response, but did you really need to send it twice?
Or is the Scots-L software acting up again?
Anyway, I'm sure the world needs plenty more tunebooks, so why don't you
give it ago? The need for a "Complete Scott Skinner" has already been
mentioned, so how about it - I don't think anyone will be chasing you re
copyright.
Regards,
Ted
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Nigel Gatherer
> Sent: 04 October 2002 18:12
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [scots-l] Re: Music source books
>
>
> Ted Hastings wrote:
>
> > Jack Campin wrote:
>
> > > ...I have never had much time for the Balnain House approach of
> > > gratuitous rewrites of pipe tunes for the fiddle, shifting mode and
> > > range, with no indication of what they've done;
>
> > Despite the fact that my list doesn't include a single book published
> > by Balnain House...
>
> What Jack meant, I'm sure, was Taigh na Teud (who published half of
> your selections), and I have sympathy for both his opinion and yours.
> TnT happened to produce collections of Scottish-biased tunes at a time
> when people wanted such collections, and they managed to fulfil that
> need successfully and at the right time. (It was once my intention to
> do the same thing, so bear in mind I'm speaking from more than a little
> jealousy here.) I own several of these books, and indeed use them at
> times, but they frustrate me. They almost never give sources for the
> tunes they use and no background information is given. The keys they
> sometimes use baffle me. Their collections of fiddle tunes appear to be
> made up of an awful lot of pipe tunes. Their use of Gaelic puzzles me.
> Occasionally their choices are dubious (The River Cree is the name of
> the dance. The tune is "Humours of Donnybrook") The lack of a good
> index annoys me, and damn it all, they just didn't make AS GOOD A JOB
> OF IT AS I WOULD HAVE!!!!!
>
> Having said that, they actually went ahead and did it, and have
> provided tunes in their collections which would be difficult to get
> elsewhere, and, most importantly of all, their books are popular and
> widely available.
>
> --
> Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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