On 18 Sep 2009, at 14:51, gibbonssoi...@aol.com wrote:
It's a hornpipe, because J.L. Dunk said it was, and he wrote it;
Well, not quite . . .
The mysterious Mr. Dunk presented the tune to the NPS in 1929 with the
title 'Whin Shields on the Wall'. As it stands in the manuscript owned
Hi all
I was sent the following link to a website in Japanese.
[1]http://blog.arukikata.co.jp/tokuhain/glasgow/2009/09/post_76.html
I know it will interest a few of you so I'm passing it on.
My translation machinery did a fair job on it.
Cheers,
Dave
Might be of interest -
[1]http://www.asaplive.com/FARNE/Learn.cfm?ccs=229cs=935
Anthony
--- On Fri, 18/9/09, Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com wrote:
From: Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com
Subject: [NSP] Re: Whinshields thingummy
To: gibbonssoi...@aol.com
Makes more sense than 'Hyperacoustics', anyway
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These are in Ontario, Canada
Tim
- Original Message -
From: Dally, John john.da...@hmhpub.com
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
Sent: Friday, September 18, 2009 5:27 PM
Subject: [NSP] curious Burleigh pipes
We might be being unfair to Mr Dunk. It's possible he couldn't read and
write music properly, tried to set down the notes but didn't know how
to annotate rhythm and knew what he thought his tune ought to sound
like when he played it.
His whistling and humming party trick sounds like an
