[scots-l] Ale Moller's cow horn

I heard (I think on Travelling Folk) a snippet of Aly Bain and Ale Moller playing together last week. At one point, Aly played one of my favourite tunes, Da Day Dawn, with Ale introducing it on what he described as a cow horn. If I remember right he only played the first half (plagal A dorian,

Re: [scots-l] Ale Moller's cow horn

I have seen him play it. It appeared to be controlled by mouth-shape rather than fingering holes. It looked like the Jewish *shofar*, which is a trumpet made from a ram's horn, and, similarly, has no holes. CliffA Anybody seen him do this live? What sort of instrument is it?

[scots-l] Marshall's Scottish Melodies

I finally obtained a copy of Fiddlecase Books reprint of William Marshall's tunes recently (Elderly Instruments has them in case anyone else is looking). Because the print quality isn't all that great I'm thinking about coding the collection into abc. Before I start though, I thought I should