Andrew Kuntz wrote:
Have the Kerr collections been definitively dated? I don't recall
Merry Melodies having a publishing date in any of the four volumes,
but I understand the publishing house was (is?) active for some
time.
No. Unfortunately the background to the Kerrs books is vague,
I'm in love. With Miss McPherson Grant. Can't get it out of my head.
X:652
T:Miss McPherson Grant's Jig - of Ballindalloch
B:Marshall's 1st Coll. (1822)
Z:Nigel Gatherer
L:1/8
M:6/8
K:A
E | E2A A2F | GAB Bcd | c2E AGA | B3 E3 |
E2e e2c | dcd Bcd | cde fed | cBA GFE |
E2A A2F | GAB
Unfortunately the background to the Kerrs books is vague, although
I've often felt like doing some research. I believe the company still
exists in some form in Glasgow, but I'm shy of approaching them (apart
from having failed to find the time to do so).
They turned into a classical record
I used to hear his reel The Apple Tree a lot a few years ago, it
seems to have gone out of fashion.
[...]
A2 a2 fe`dc| Aa`ga fe`dc|[1 Bc`de fB`Bc| Bcde fefa:|!
i play it... and sometimes people recognise it, but more often not.
at least i'm pretty sure it's the same tune, but i'm not
Nice tune. Thanks.
CA
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I used to hear his reel The Apple Tree a lot a few years ago,
it seems to have gone out of fashion.
[...]
A2 a2 fe`dc| Aa`ga fe`dc|[1 Bc`de fB`Bc| Bcde fefa:|!
i play it... and sometimes people recognise it, but more often not.
at least i'm pretty sure it's the same tune, but i'm not
it provides a way of spacing out ABC notes
to allow for more readable alignment of parallel phrases
presumably this is assuming a fixed-width font?
ABC is hard to use with anything else.
i should probably get a newer version of abc2ps...
For Scottish music you shouldn't be using abc2ps at
There is a clue in the Introduction to J.T. Surenne's The
Dance Music of Scotland (Edinburgh 1852):
This Collection contains two hundred and forty-five of the
best Reels and strathspeys The tunes are distributed
into sets of three, as they are generally danced; that is to
say, Reel,
Jack Campin wrote:
Somebody remind me what Carl Volti's real name was?
Archibald Milligan, b. 1849, came from a family of fiddlers. His uncle
was George Hood, a celebrated fiddler of his time (apparently). Young
Archie's first tune on the fiddle was High Road to Linton (he said,
in his
Somebody remind me what Carl Volti's real name was?
Archibald Milligan, b. 1849, came from a family of fiddlers. His uncle
was George Hood, a celebrated fiddler of his time (apparently). Young
Archie's first tune on the fiddle was High Road to Linton (he said,
in his autobiography).
Any relation
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