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> >scots-l-digest Sunday, November 17 2002 Volume 01 : Number 429 > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 11:38:07 +0000 (GMT) >From: Nigel Gatherer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [scots-l] Re: Angus Polkas > >Jack Campin wrote: > >> >> Anyone else know these polkas? The second one starts off a bit like >> >> "The Rattlin Bog/John McAlpine"... > >> The first half of the tune is the same as what I know as "The March >> to the Battlefield". > >> Is "The Rattlin Bog" the Irish name for it? I've heard Irish >> musicians play it. > >Yeah, it's a song. "Ha, ha, the rattling bog, the bog down in the >valley, O...And in that bog there was a tree, a rare tree, a rattling >tree..." > >Ted Hastings pointed out the similarity between the tune for that song >and the Scots tune "John McAlpine". I don't know "March to the >Battlefield" but I have it in Jimmy Shand's Bagpipe March book, so I'll >fetch it up later. > >- -- >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 > >------------------------------ > >Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 11:49:29 +0000 (GMT) >From: Nigel Gatherer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [scots-l] Re: Celtic Studies and an intro > >Kathie wrote: > >> I'm new to your list and wanted to introduce myself quickly. My >> name's Kathie and I'm in the US, in Washington State, and am a >> pianist/keyboardist. My interest in Scottish/Celtic music is a fairly >> recent thing (sorry!), and I joined this list in hopes of learning a >> bit more about it - this looked like a good place to start. > >I'll bet you're thinking otherwise now. Apart from a flurry of activity >a couple of months ago, this mailing list is practically dead. However, >one thing to shock it into life is to ask questions, so if there's >anything you want to know, please go ahead and ask. > >> My initial background is classical, but that branched off some time >> ago into jazz and other things, so my interests are a bit varied. >> I'm hoping to travel to Scotland in the next few months, and was >> hoping to learn as much as I could about some of the traditional >> music before I got there. > >When are you coming? Where are you going? Have you heard of keyboard >player Andy Thorburn? Violet Tulloch is a respected piano accompanist >of the old style. The Cape Breton fiddlers tend to take more interest >in their pianists, I believe, than the Scots. > >In these days of pub sessions, you don't see a lot of piano playing. >There was a women in Edinburgh who played a melodica - that instrument >which you blew through, but which had a little keyboard with which to >make the notes. She attached a long plastic hose to the end and laid it >flat on the table. She'd blow through the hose and play the melodica >like a tiny piano. In one episode of Star Trel TNG Jean-Luc Picard - a >whistle player - met a woman with whom he'd go off for picnics. At one >she took out a tied-up roll of cloth. She untied it and rolled it out >flat to reveal a keyboard, and they jammed for a while. I believe that >it won't be too long before that technology will be with us, so we'll >start to see pianists unrolling their instrument onto pub tables. > >- -- >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 > >------------------------------ > >Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:17:21 +0000 (GMT) >From: Nigel Gatherer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [scots-l] Fiddlers (was: Peter Milne) > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Nigel Gatherer > >> > It's Peter Milne's 178th birthday! > >Ted Hastings responded: > >> Is he having a party? > >You mean you didn't get your invite? Perhaps it was sent to your old >address. Or something. > >I recently found a book I bought in a junk shop years ago, "The Fiddle >in Scotland" by Alexander G Murdoch (n.d.); a curious collection of >anecdotes and stories about various Scots fiddlers. It includes this >account of the meeting of Burns and Niel Gow: > >............................. >Arriving at Dunkeld, [Burns]...put up at the principal inn...[He] was >fortunate in making the acquaintance of Dr Stewart, an enthusiastic >amateur violin player. At the dinner table he quoted to his guests the >well-known local ditty- > Dunkeld it is a little toon, > An' lies intil a howe; > An' if ye want a fiddler loon, > Spier ye for Niel Gow. >Burns expressed much delight at the proposal...a visit was at once >agreed to. > >The greeting was a cordial one on both sides, and the meeting of Burns >and Gow - both geniuses of the first order in their respective lines - >was mutually worthy of each other. The magician of the bow gave them a >selection of north-country airs mostly of his own spirited composition. >The first tune was "Loch Erroch Side" which greatly delighted the poet, >who long afterwards wrote for the same melody his touching lyric "Oh, >stay, sweet warbling woodlark, stay!" >At Burns's request, Niel next gave them his pathetic "Lament for >Abercairney" and afterwards one of the best-known compositions in the >Highlands, "McIntosh's Lament". "Tullochgorum" was also duly honoured, >after which the whole party adjourned to the little old-fashioned inn >at Inver, where there was a famous deoch, or parting friendly drink. >............................. >The above is supposed to have been recounted by Peter Stewart, who >accompanied Gow on bass on the occasion. > >- -- >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 > >------------------------------ > >Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:33:44 +0000 (GMT) >From: Nigel Gatherer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [scots-l] Re: Scottish musicians in the US > >Ellen Sinatra wrote: > >> Derek...I'd be really interested in what instrument(s) you play, who >> you play with...Come to think of it, I'd love to know that about some >> of the rest of the people here... > >Derek has played fiddle in and around Edinburgh for many years, most >notably after he joined local band Jock Tamson's Bairns. The Bairns >have produced three of the best in Scottish music albums and have all >been involved in other projects to varying degrees. Check out their >most recent CD "May You Never Lack a Scone" <http://www.jtbairns.com/> >to hear them in full flight. Having admired Derek's fiddling for years, >I was pleased to meet him when we were both tutors at the Scots Music >Group. > >I'm an amateur. Although I was in a few bands when I lived in >Edinburgh, they were very low-key affairs. One of them produced 3 CDs, >but on a home-produced, low-run basis. What kept me involved for so >long was an undying passion for Scottish music, and by strange twists >of fate I found myself passing on what knowledge I had acquired to >people who wanted to learn. > >Teaching traditional music is now a big part of my life, and although I >do not subscribe to the notion that "those who can, do; those who >can't, teach" it might have been written for me. I don't have the >musical skills that Derek and others have, but I share his ability to >enthuse and encourage learners and get them started on their musical >journeys. The way I see it, I'm simply further down that road than they >are, so I can guide them past the potholes and turnstiles that they'll >surely come across. My name is Nigel. I'm...I'm a... I'm a teacher. > >- -- >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 > >------------------------------ > >Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:34:54 +0000 (GMT) >From: Nigel Gatherer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [scots-l] Re: Source tunes > >Rita Hamilton wrote: > >> At the end of a week, I'll send the list the source book list and >> since I've requested priority order, I'll prioitize them. > >Did I miss this? Did you ever send it? > >- -- >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 > >------------------------------ > >Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 12:39:20 +0000 (GMT) >From: Nigel Gatherer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: [scots-l] Re: talk about my CD-ROM, Sunday 24th, Edinburgh > >Jack Campin wrote: > >> I'll be talking about my CD-ROM <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/embro/> >> at the Fiddle 2002 event in the Assembly Rooms, Edinburgh, Sunday >> 24 November, 12.45pm; one hour. > >I'm hoping to go to a talk at 11.45: "Every Scottish fiddle record ever >made", so if I'm out by 12.45 I'll pop into your as well. I'm going to >a concert on the Saturday evening with Brian McNeill, Aonghas Grant Sr >and John McCusker which should be good. There's a fiddle cabaret >afterwards which I'd like to try and see. This is a most excellent >festival! > >Anyway, good luck, Jack. > >- -- >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 > >------------------------------ > >Date: 16 Nov 2002 07:52:35 -0800 >From: Toby Rider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [scots-l] Re: Celtic Studies and an intro > >On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 03:49, Nigel Gatherer wrote: >> Kathie wrote: > >> I'll bet you're thinking otherwise now. Apart from a flurry of activity >> a couple of months ago, this mailing list is practically dead. However, >> one thing to shock it into life is to ask questions, so if there's >> anything you want to know, please go ahead and ask. >> > Yes, posting on this list tends to come in waves, doesn't it? > >Toby > > >Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To >subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html > >------------------------------ > >Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2002 23:23:06 +0000 >From: Jack Campin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [scots-l] Re: Celtic Studies and an intro > >> In these days of pub sessions, you don't see a lot of piano playing. >> There was a women in Edinburgh who played a melodica - that instrument >> which you blew through, but which had a little keyboard with which to >> make the notes. She attached a long plastic hose to the end and laid it >> flat on the table. She'd blow through the hose and play the melodica >> like a tiny piano. > >If anybody wants one of these I've got one (the "Piano 26" model, >one of the better models). I think they cost about fifty quid new. >I never got on with it; don't like the keyboard feel, and the sound >(one reed, no vibrato) didn't appeal. I think they work better for >reggae, good for those cross-accent percussive blasts. > >I have a fretted clavichord here which I've thought of bringing along to >a pub someday (needs a bit of attention after being dropped by furniture >movers) - got it free, it has an *extremely* sick story behind it which >I will not repeat in public. It's almost as portable as a Yamaha >Portasound. > >=================== <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 > >------------------------------ > >Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 19:32:35 GMT >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [scots-l] J. Scott Skinners new CD > >Has anyone mentioned the new CD of J. Scott Skinners original recordings which were >recorded by him between 1905 & 1922? I've been off the list and may have missed this if it was discussed. >I ordered my copy two days ago. It's called "The Strathspey King" as it should be. >The recordings are taken from old wax cylinder recordings and old 78 lp recordings. They have been digitally enhanced in that they supposedly have taken most of the crackling and popping out ( except for the last tune "The President" - which Skinner originally named "The Emporer".) The notes say that "The President" is digitally remaster and then repeated in it's original/existing state with all the pops and crackling. Still, it is warned that it is NOT Hi-Fi quality but rather just as it was recorded by Skinner himself. > >I'm anxious to hear it. > > > > >________________________________________________________________ >Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today >Only $9.95 per month! >Visit www.juno.com >Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To >subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html > >------------------------------ > >End of scots-l-digest V1 #429 >***************************** > > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
