For those of you nearby/interested there will be a session on Brechin at the Caledonian Hotel on the fourth of June (next Friday) at around 20.00.
Do they play James Oswald's Brechin Reel?
- Kate D.
Sorry I don't have time just now to make an ABC. It's in the Caledonian Pocket Companion. I only knew because he also put that reel in his Thistle Sonata.
- Kate D.
We'll see tomorrow! Nevertheless, I didn't know about this tune, Could you post the abc for it, please?
Do they play James
The puzzle remains, however. Surenne's characterisation of the
foursome, at
least according to the evidence collected by the Fletts, seems to be
found
only in the anarchic choices of the Kilberry piper.
The arrangement in the books seems to point to a well-founded practice
on
the dance floor,
have the dance moving from strathspey to reel, but not back to
strathspey
again.
I didn't think that the layout necessarily meant that they went back to
strathspeys after reels in a dance. I just thought it was like in Cape
Breton, where you wouldn't dream of playing a strathspey without a reel
I have a further question: these tunebooks seem to be inconsistent in
noting which tunes were composed by Petrie and which were from other
sources (in the first tunebook there's no authorship info so I assumed
most tunes were Petrie's own, however I found several that I know to be
traditional.
Please eliminate the bass line, and, to the extent
that you are willing to do the work, use usual keys:
d, g, c, a or f. I await the result.
Some researchers do look at the bass lines, although those people will
want to see the original anyway. Even if not to play, the bass line
tells you what
I have a facsimile of Robert Petrie's tune books (thanks to Jan
Tappan), which I think have never been reprinted,
Llanerch Press reprinted them, they're still available and not very
expensive.
Llanerch Press reprinted George Petrie. That's an Irish collection.
- Kate D.
Posted to Scots-L - The
Hi folks,
I've been attempting to learn to play the whistle lately (can old dogs
learn new tricks?). I'm wondering about the ornamentation. I can see
that pipe-playing whistle players naturally approach ornamentation a
certain way, which is quite different from what my fiddle-playing
The High Reel? Nice tune which I haven't played for maybe 7 years
:-) Are you starting to play more Irish tunes Kate?
I'm not playing much of anything, but I'm starting to think about what
I would like to play when I get going again.
- Kate D.
Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish
It's not in Gore because it's a pipe tune. Where have you read
about The High Reel? There seems little doubt on the evidence:
X:609
T:Sandy Duff
B:Scots Guards, Standard Settings
Thanks Nigel! That's so often the explanation when I can't find a tune
in Gore. I don't have very many pipe books,
I think his observations reflect the physical characteristics of the
fiddle.
Oh yes, I am such a fiddlehead that I forgot to say that. I often
recognize the key a fiddle is playing in from the character of the tone
(although possibly I'm subconsciously noticing which strings are open
as
On Sunday, October 5, 2003, at 04:51 PM, Nigel Gatherer wrote:
Somewhere I saved James Scott Skinner's list of colours which he
assigned the various keys on the fiddle. Where did I put it?
I don't know about colours, but here's how he characterized the keys in
A Guide to Bowing:
C major Bold,
12 matches
Mail list logo
