[scots-l] FW: George Bell, Blairgowrie
Hi All, I've just received this message. Can anyone help? Please reply to Liz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Ian -Original Message- From: Liz Silver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 November 2001 8:45 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: George Bell, Blairgowrie Hi, I would love to know how to contact George Bell who played in a Scottish Dance Band in Blairgowrie. George was a very talented musician although he has been blind for many years. My husband Jack Silver was a great friend of George's during their young years in Aberdeen. We now live in Adelaide Australia. Hoping you can help. Many thanks! Liz Silver Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
[scots-l] Wake Up Call
I demand that: Stan Reeves continues the next instalment of his memoirs including full scandal, name-dropping, confession and damned lies. Charles Gore explains JUST what he is doing with his time that he can't comment on the best ukulele strings for a Scottish sound, or who played Zither in the 1973-and-a-half incarnation of the infamous Cumbernauld afghan-coat-wearing folk group The Tulla Band. Jack Campin outlines his plans for any exciting CD-Rom song-and-tune collections he might be considering. If he were thinking of such an outrageous project, what form would it take? HTML? David South gives us his opinion on the better pre-WW2 melodeon players. Andrew Kuntz tells us his current favourite tune. OK, you get the idea: unless this mailing list really is as dead as Patie Birnie's mare, let's get some action going. I've never known it to be as quiet as this. Me? Oh no, I've no time for such frivolities. Talk to me, people! -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Wake Up Call
Charles Gore explains JUST what he is doing with his time that he can't comment on the best ukulele strings for a Scottish sound, or who played Zither in the 1973-and-a-half incarnation of the infamous Cumbernauld afghan-coat-wearing folk group The Tulla Band. I spoke to him at Fiddle 2001 and he says he's off-line until his computer gets something done to it. I suspect his ISP's crummy software has blown a gasket. Jack Campin outlines his plans for any exciting CD-Rom song-and-tune collections he might be considering. If he were thinking of such an outrageous project, what form would it take? HTML? http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/embro/ . === 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
Re: [scots-l] Wake Up Call
Nigel writes: | I demand that: ... | OK, you get the idea: unless this mailing list really is as dead as | Patie Birnie's mare, let's get some action going. I've never known it | to be as quiet as this. Me? Oh no, I've no time for such frivolities. | Talk to me, people! Heh. One question that just came up here: Can I play a tune called Gramachie? Well, no, I can't, because I can't find it anywhere. My Tune Finder has never heard of it, and none of the pile of trad tune books on my shelf seems to contain it. The title sounds somehow familiar, but I can't think of how it sounds. Anyone out there know it? Got an abc version? Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
RE: [scots-l] Wake Up Call
Looks like a minor spelling problem. According to Andrew Kuntz: GRAD(H) MO CROID(H)E. AKA and see The harp that once through Tara's halls, Gramachree, Gramachree Molly, Will you go to Flanders, Little Molly O. Irish, Air (4/4 time). D Major. Standard. AB. Roche Collection, 1983, Vol. 1; No. 28, pg. 15. Recognise it now? Ted -Original Message- From: John Chambers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 November 2001 21:52 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [scots-l] Wake Up Call Nigel writes: | I demand that: ... | OK, you get the idea: unless this mailing list really is as dead as | Patie Birnie's mare, let's get some action going. I've never known it | to be as quiet as this. Me? Oh no, I've no time for such frivolities. | Talk to me, people! Heh. One question that just came up here: Can I play a tune called Gramachie? Well, no, I can't, because I can't find it anywhere. My Tune Finder has never heard of it, and none of the pile of trad tune books on my shelf seems to contain it. The title sounds somehow familiar, but I can't think of how it sounds. Anyone out there know it? Got an abc version? Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
Re: [scots-l] Wake Up Call
In a message dated 11/28/2001 5:53:17 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Heh. One question that just came up here: Can I play a tune called "Gramachie"? Well, no, I can't, because I can't find it anywhere. Well, I'll take a stab. Is it this'n? Regards, Andrew Kuntz GRAMACHREE. AKA and see Will you go to Flanders?, The harp that once through Tara's halls, Molly Asthore, Little Molly O, Graidh mo chroidhe, Gramachree Molly. Irish, Air. A tune dating from the time of the Confederation of Kilkenny (1642-1648) as it is alluded to in a pamphlet in Dublin in 1737, and purloined; asserts Flood (1906), by James Oswald in 1742. The song of the above title is by the Rt. Hon. George Ogle (1742-1814), who represented the City of Dublin in Grattan's Parliament and voted against the Union with Britain. ‘Gramachree’ is an Englished version of the Irish “Gra Mo Croi” (Graidh mo chroidhe), or ‘love of my heart.’ The song appears in Songs of the Gael, 1st series (1922), and begins: *** As down by Banna's banks I strayed One evening in May, The little birds, in blithest notes Made vocal every spray. They sang their little notes of love, They sung them o'er and o'er. Ah! Gra Machree ma Cholleen Oge, 'Shee Molly veg Mashtore! *** A noteto the song indicates the editor of i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'Songsof the Gael was given his verison of the air by a priest who had taken thetune down some fifty years before from quot;the singing of an old woman inCounty Carlow, who was then nearly a hundred years old. She had learned theversion from her grandmother.quot; X:1 T:Gramachree M:6/8 L:1/8 Q:160 S:Playford K:F F| d2 e f2 d| e^cA A2 A| d2 e f3 g|afd d2f/2g/2|agf gfe|fed cBA| G2 A B 2 G| AFD D2 ::\ F| FGF F2f| f2 d cAF|G2 A B2G|AFD D2 F |FGF F2 f|f2 d cAF |G2 A B2 G|AF D D2:|
