Perhaps syncopated jiggery is a virus like the squirrel pox that grays
carry but kills reds?
Tim
This made me wonder what 'Pan-Celtic syncopated jiggery' is,
and what the
nature of the threat.
Sounds more like fun than a threat in the admittedly unlikely event of you
asking me g
Seems to me that as the pipes have been around for about 500 years in their
present form, but much of the repetoire is from the last 200-250 years and
is probably a sample of popular tunes of the day that you could argue that
the traditional tunes at least of the pipes have already been lost.
sources can only notate the version they 'know',
and were often (Vickers especially) not all that literate either.
John
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From: tim rolls BT [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 October 2008 12:23
To: Robert Greef
Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Subject: [NSP] Re: Piping under
On 2 Oct 2008, Gibbons, John wrote:
It also stretched higher up the social scale than some people like to
think. The picture (of Dixon himself?) in the Dixon MS is of a
gentleman in a rather snazzy coat.
William Dixon was a churchwarden of his (admittedly very rural)
parish. One of his many
