On 29 May 2009, at 09:09, Geoff Jones wrote:
The Secret of Jigs
A search here found it immediately:
http://www.amazon.co.uk
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Can anyone tell me where I can obtain / purchase a copy of Hardy's book
"The Secret of Jigs"?
Yours aye,
Geoff Jones
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Anthony Robb wrote:
Hello John
Many musicians kept books of dots to help them remember tunes. Better
scholars than me have pointed
Anthony,
There is certainly more to any music than the dots on the page.
A lot of the nuances of style are unwritten, (unwritable?),
whether you are talking about French baroque flute,
or modern North Northumbrian traditional fiddle.
I must read Stewart Hardy's book;
if he writes as well as he
Anthony Robb wrote:
Many musicians kept books of dots to help them remember tunes.
On reading this my thoughts went straight to an incident when I was a
teenager in a pipe band. The Pipe Major, probably around 60 then, was
teaching a group of us youngsters a tune. One of my fellow teens star