[NSP] Cradle Song

2011-02-05 Thread Richard Shuttleworth
Does anyone have the lyrics to Hannah Hutton' singing of The Cradle Song. I have the song somewhere on an old cassette recording of Joe and Hannah but can't find it. i have the music but need the lyrics. Could any kind person out there oblige. Many thanks, Richard -- To get

[NSP] Halsway

2011-02-05 Thread Richard York
Hello again. Just before I book a train ticket, please is anyone passing Northampton on their way to the Halsway pipers' weekend in March, with room for one more in the car? My wife's joining the w/e later, having played a harpy gig in Reading, with our car, so coming back is sort

[NSP] Re: Esoteric tuning relationships

2011-02-05 Thread Christopher.Birch
as regards equal temperament, I agree that the fifths are tolerable. It's the thirds, sixths and sevenths that are ghastly. you don't necessarily need a new chanter. you can flatten notes by putting a crescent of, say, white woodglue on the topside of the hole (easily removable) and

[NSP] Re: Esoteric tuning relationships

2011-02-05 Thread Richard York
Thanks all for these responses. I'm trying in vain to remember the name in a BBC Radio3 programme some while ago about the Italian composer, just before Gesualdo, who devised the most amazing system to mean that all intervals were perfectly in tune, but the instruments, and singers,