>> Again, >> please unsubscribe me from all these lists. >> thank you > Haw ya bam, whit ur ye like! Jist cleek oan th blessit URL belaw an be > done wi it! D'ye want us tae haud yer haun atweel? It's no like it's naw > at th bottom o ilka ane o these posts! > Cleek an get aff ya wallopir ye!
If there is one thing even more offensive than your perpetual condescension to people who, in many cases, have already tried exactly what you're telling them to do, it's reposting their ENTIRE messages to repeat the same joke, and in this case a complete digest. (We can cut the original poster some slack for being a newbie. But not you). I don't recall when I've last read a message from you that was actually about Scottish music. Has there been even one in the last year? Perhaps a footer line saying something like "list admin requests may take time to process; please be patient" might help? I guess most newbies who join mailing lists nowadays have preconceptions about how they should work derived from whatever Yahoo does. Never having belonged to a Yahoo list, I don't know what that might imply (except that turning this into a Yahoo clone would not be a good idea...) A musical question, then. The National Library of Scotland has an arrangement which they say is for two flageolets of a piece by Bach, done by Robert Louis Stevenson around 1890. In the same folder is a photo of a truly terrifying-looking multiethnic flute band; Stevenson at the top, then a line of mean-looking white guys with fifes, then a line of massive Jonah Lomu lookalikes with drums, and interspersed with guys of both races holding great big woodsmen's axes, all with a Jimmy Shand smile ration between them. This was not an outfit you'd argue with if they wanted to march down your street on the Samoan equivalent of Easter Week or the Twelfth. Now, there's nothing in the score that indicates the flageolet - looks to me like any flute with an E flat key could do it. The two items don't jell with each other. So whoever wrote the catalogue entry must have had some biographical information. Anybody here have some? What was Stevenson's interest in flute band or flageolet music in Samoa, or in Scotland before he left? =================== <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
