Mary Umbarger wrote:

>Why would you be interested in a guitar-accompanied version when

the harp can do it so much better? I can't offhand think of *any*
performance of a strathspey with a guitar backing where the guitar
was doing more than hang in there producing a vaguely appropriate
harmonic blur; it just doesn't have the rhythmic precision you need.


It is possible to come up with some effective finger-picked accompaniments for strathspeys..




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