Jack Campin wrote:

> Or, also in the minor, "Fingal's Cave"? - you have a somewhat Martian
> set of that in one of your tunebooks, I much prefer the old Kerr's
> one...

The one in that book was taken from the playing of the Old Blind Dogs,
and I didn't immediately recognise it as the same tune - they called it
"Cuilfhionn". I was attracted to the atmospheric, slow way Rory
Campbell played it. 

I've been asked to play a couple of numbers at a concert in Comrie
tonight, and I still haven't decided what to play. I'm toying with "My
Cape Breton Home" by Jerry Holland, and possibly some strathspeys. I
like "Captain Campbell" and "Miss Jessie Smith" and "Miller o' Hirn"
and, and...

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Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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