Jack Campin wrote:

> I'd suggest something entirely different: piano music.  A mandolin
> can do chords, and there were a good many variation sets from the
> late 18th and early 19th centuries that exploited both hands of the
> keyboard (or did equivalent things with the harp).

Good idea - I'll see what I can find.

> As far as I know none of these early variation sets was ever reprinted
> and most only exist as music sheets.  Whose catalogue entries don't
> usually even mention that they *are* variation sets.  Yes there *is*
> still work to do after Gore's index...

That's another subject worth discussing, but I'm rushing out the door.
We'll be at the West End tomorrow night, but I'm currently looking for
another venue for a session. The Canon's Gait is a possibility.

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