Hi All,
I've just received this. Does anyone have any info? Please include
Dayan Goodsir Cullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] on replies.
Cheers,
Ian
-Original Message-
From: Dayan Goodsir Cullen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 19 July 2001 11:22
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: William Goodsir
To Kate Dunley; Hi. Kate, Glad to read your contribution.
Re your comment:
In Cape Breton fiddle music, playing with drive and good
timing is more important than playing in tune.
My comment:
Agree. However you're implying that the choices are mutually exclusive.
They need not be .In fact the
Toby writes:
| I know about piper's being opinionated, however I still think
| alot of fidder's are even *more* opinionated.
This is especially ironic considering the tuning situation within the
classical crowd. Standard classical teaching brings out the fact that
tempered tuning really
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, John Chambers wrote:
So you'd think that fiddlers with a classical background would know
and understand that different musical groups use different intonation
rules. Traditional Scottish music shouldn't be anything other than
yet another sort of intonation, to be
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, Jack Campin wrote:
the offending notes sometimes have more to do with the fingering on
the fiddle and how difficult it is to play them. Therefore, it is not
necessarily the same intervals which offend in each key. This I can
see because for instance, I have a
