Take me off your list.
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2002 2:12 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: scots-l-digest V1 #444
scots-l-digest Thursday, December 19 2002 Volume 01 : Number 444
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: 17 Dec 2002 00:05:29 +0000
From: Anselm Lingnau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [scots-l] traditional tune names?
John Chambers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [Mairi's Wedding]
> This may be the best-known Scottish Country Dance in the repertoire.
It may or may not be but it is certainly well-known enough that one
would use the particular tune for it and for it *only*. Dancers will
be very surprised indeed to hear another tune put forward for the
dance, Mairi's Wedding, or to encounter the Mairi's Wedding tune as
the lead tune for another dance.
Anselm
- --
Anselm Lingnau .......................................... [EMAIL PROTECTED]
If everyone is thinking alike, no one is thinking.
-- General George S. Patton, Jr.
Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 00:11:25 +0000
From: David Kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [scots-l] FS antique finish fiddle
I have a new Romanian fiddle outfit for sale - basically a sample I
bought in with a view to reselling as a regular item - which would make
a really nice Christmas present for someone.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=930975610
What's unusual about this is the appearance. It looks more like a well
used, cared for oldish fiddle than a new one - sort of slightly matter
than normal, antique shaded finish. The pix look a bit more red and less
chocolate in colour than it is. And the ebony is all very nice and real.
It could do with a new soundpost because I really made a mess of the one
supplied (and my thumb!) trying to use the setting tool, and it's
probably in the wrong place. I think it was a bit too short for the
instrument. So a quick visit to an expert would probably do it some good.
I've ordered a higher grade, flamed fiddleback model with a rather high
factory price to see what these are like too, but that won't be with me
until February, and the finish is a rather strident gloss - but they
don't do this antique finish in a better fiddle.
David in Kelso
Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:38:30 -0500
From: Dave B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [scots-l] have i asked?
Hi John,
>Have you tried asking the local teacher for some suggestions
I did, but got no real responses.
This whole thing wasn't taken seriously
until we showed up on Friday night.
Now?
I've borrowed some of her music and dances
and I'm getting lots of support in this.
I've proven it is worth doing for our
group up here, and so now it is a done
deal.
I have about a month until we meet next.
Thanks again,
Dave
Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 19:42:39 -0500
From: Dave B <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [scots-l] apologies about list replies
Sorry everyone.
I'm trying to reply personally, but
my emailer has (twice now) sent the
personal reply to the Reply-To:
It is awful. It looks correct on the
screen. I press SEND. It -- in front
of my eyes -- alters the To: and I
see it! scots-l@argyll. ... and then
goes ahead.
I'm sure this will happen again, so
forgive me, please, as often as this
happens.
I'll try to prevent it.
Dave
- - I guess it thinks it knows better
Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
------------------------------
Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 18:38:09 -0800 (PST)
From: "Toby Rider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [scots-l] apologies about list replies
Don't hit "reply-all", otherwise it will include the list address in there.
Toby
> Sorry everyone.
>
> I'm trying to reply personally, but
> my emailer has (twice now) sent the
> personal reply to the Reply-To:
>
> It is awful. It looks correct on the
> screen. I press SEND. It -- in front
> of my eyes -- alters the To: and I
> see it! scots-l@argyll. ... and then
> goes ahead.
>
> I'm sure this will happen again, so
> forgive me, please, as often as this
> happens.
>
> I'll try to prevent it.
>
> Dave
> - I guess it thinks it knows better
>
> Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To
> subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to:
> http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
- --
Toby Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
"I don't try to be better then anybody else. I only try to be better than
myself."
- - Dan Jansen, Olympic Gold Medalist & World Record Holder, Speed Skating
Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 11:36:11 -0000
From: "David Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [scots-l] Ballad question
David Kilpatrick wrote:
>maybe the ballads really go back even further to the
> Bronze Age, and ALL iron is 'metal clear' while those old bronze swords
> are 'metal broon'...
It's an interesting thought, and maybe not so far fetched. Take a look at
Alan Garner's essay (he of 'Red Shift', 'The Owl Service' etc) 'Oral history
and applied history in East Cheshire' (it's in his collection 'The Voice
that Thunders'). Here he proposes the view, based on deductions from place
names and topographical evidence in an archetypal 'Sleeping Warrior' story,
that the story itself probably has its origins in some of the earliest
communities in that part of the world - dated to the Bronze Age around 4,000
years ago. The story is still current in oral tradition around Alderley
Edge.
David Francis
Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
------------------------------
Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2002 14:00:56 +0000
From: David Kilpatrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [scots-l] Ballad question
David Francis wrote:
> David Kilpatrick wrote:
>
>>maybe the ballads really go back even further to the
>>Bronze Age, and ALL iron is 'metal clear' while those old bronze swords
>>are 'metal broon'...
>
>
> It's an interesting thought, and maybe not so far fetched. Take a look at
> Alan Garner's essay (he of 'Red Shift', 'The Owl Service' etc) 'Oral history
> and applied history in East Cheshire' (it's in his collection 'The Voice
> that Thunders'). Here he proposes the view, based on deductions from place
> names and topographical evidence in an archetypal 'Sleeping Warrior' story,
> that the story itself probably has its origins in some of the earliest
> communities in that part of the world - dated to the Bronze Age around 4,000
> years ago. The story is still current in oral tradition around Alderley
> Edge.
>
As long as it's not the same as the sleeping Scotsman story...
presumably it's a
warrior asleep until rewakened to save the world story?
I would have thought that was probably even older still and shares roots
with all deist religion, and in turn with the fact of being born and
having parents.
I used enjoy Garner's kids books (with small reservations, even as a
kid) but haven't seen his other writing and must look.
David
Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
------------------------------
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 16:51:04 -0500 (EST)
From: "The Rev Dr Ian Adkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [scots-l] Harry Lauder 78s
I'm in the process of appraising and liquidating a collection of 78 RPM
records, among which is a 78 of Sir Harry Lauder singing "Queen Among the
Heather" and "Bonnie Leezie Lindsay," non-electrical recording,
practically unplayed condition. I figured I'd give the folks here a look
before offering it up to the godless masses on eBay! If I can glean any
information off the label for anyone, let me know. The rest of the
collection is primarily World War I era popular tunes, rare American
country music and Polish polkas.
- -- I.A.
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 #444
*****************************
