Re: [scots-l] Location (source) for pdf-piping.pdf.

it with BarFly; the audio interaction will tell you more and quicker than working through printed scores. ABCMus on Windows will be nearly as good (but it doesn't do highlighted playback). - Jack Campin: 11 Third St

Re: [scots-l] Brilliant name for a shop

m before. Solidly built, do exactly what he says they should, and in particular stay in tune. ----- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack>

Re: [scots-l] astonishing key for a jig

>> This one seems never to have made it into a book; at least it isn't >> in Charlie Gore's index. > None of the single sheets or four-page publications are in Gore. I knew that - the point I was making was that no anthologist seems to have picked up the tune and renamed it; I can;t see anything

Re: [scots-l] Hut On Staffin Island

> I'm very fond of this tune, but I'm having trouble finding something > else to go with it - does anybody else play the tune? Any suggestions? I wrote a reply suggesting Chris Stout's "Hamnataing" but got beaten to it before I posted it Wouldn't most marches in swung 4/4 tempo work? "Gilder

[scots-l] astonishing key for a jig

t;? All the tunes I know with that title are jigs. You could segue from that into "Calliope House", I guess (assuming you could get your fingers round the tune in the first place). --------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street

[scots-l] Ale Moller's cow horn

king the instrument symmetric). I didn't hear a double reed sound in Ale's thing. Anybody seen him do this live? What sort of instrument is it? ----- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4P

Re: [scots-l] Re: Tune Id?

|G2AG F2 GA |B2 EE GFE^D| E6 :| Maybe it's a klezmer tune? The scale is a gapped variant of melodic minor - E ^F G A B c ^d e going up, e c B A G ^F E going down - perhaps John Chambers could put a name to that? ------

Re: [scots-l] simple tunes for young fiddlers

>> Anyway, I don't think it's any sillier than "Squirrel in the Tree" jig. > Oh no, I was waiting for that Squirrel in the tree jig to come up. Sandy > MacIntyre would play that jig at the Gaelic college and laugh. To my > horror, other people got excited and wanted to know what that tune was.. AB

Re: [scots-l] simple tunes for young fiddlers

ils on the Eely-Ally-O"? How easy is that on the fiddle? [Kate, did you get my email?] - Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> *

Re: [scots-l] Tunes that go with Jean's reel

Also dead easy on a D whistle. --------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Sco

Re: [scots-l] Tunes that go with Jean's reel

>> I don't play [Jean's Reel], but it seems to me that Lochleven >> Castle (A minor) ought to go quite well with it. > Where could I find this tune? Kerr's Merry Melodies book 1, or I imagine about 100 different places via the ABC Tune Finder. It's very well known. ===

Re: [scots-l] Maggie Cameron

> Okay here's a set question. The problem here is too many choices, as > opposed to not enough choices. What do you guys play after Maggie > Cameron? I'm looking for a reel in A. Mrs MacPherson of Inveran. === === Posted to Sc

Re: [scots-l] Tunes that go with Jean's reel

t seems to me that Lochleven Castle (A minor) ought to go quite well with it. ----- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data &

[scots-l] player pianos

d live or re-recorded onto present-day media. There are probably zillions of pianola and reproducing piano websites. - Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.dem

[scots-l] Tam Reid

and Journal, anybody see it? I can't find anything on the web. A very fine singer; I'm posting this to two lists and I think there are people on both who knew him well. - Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Ne

Re: [scots-l] Celtic Connections/SHSA Comps/fusions/the wholenine yards

ny of Kilmore. If *that* becomes the tradition of the next generation I'm emigrating to proto-Indo-Europe and taking up the lithophone. --------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <

Re: [scots-l] Re: ABC question

k wrote: : JC's abc text file does match the midi file so I assume there's : a glitch in the software Jack used to produce the gif file. You have some wires crossed, I didn't produce any GIF that Rita looked at. --

Re: [scots-l] Jesse Rae

>> whatever happened to Jesse Rae? > Jesse is alive and well, living in St Boswells or its environs, running > a studio in his garden shed and occasionally invading local supermarkets > dressed in all the gear Good grief, he's only a few miles away and you haven't got him to Kelso FC yet? Some

Re: [scots-l] Re: ABC question

izably different from the fiddlers' version. Is there a song behind both? ----- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data &am

[scots-l] Gudewife, admit the wanderer

"Gudewife, admit the wanderer" is something I've never heard sung. The idea of the text (by Captain Charles Gray, R.M., F.S.A. Scot.) is a good one: an aged follower of Prince Charlie who's gone with him after his defeat is knocking at a door and asking for a nook to lie down and die in after his t

Re: [scots-l] Cumbernauld House

truments are added one at a time by the user; there are so many of them it isn't reasonable for the interface to show you the lot. ----- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 &

Re: [scots-l] Cumbernauld House

|(df| e>fg>a {g}f2ed |B2 e>f e3f| (gf) (eTd) B2 (e3/f//g//)|(dG)|E2 (G>A) G2|] The Scots Musical Museum would have been a far more accessible source for Bewick to use than Oswald's original, which had not been reprinted for 90 years. -

Re: [scots-l] Cumbernauld House

>> Or given the Catholic/ Jacobite associations of this particular tune, > What associations are they? Playford's title - the Duke of Albany was James VII&II before he became king in 1685. === === Posted to Scots-L - The Tradit

Re: [scots-l] Cumbernauld House

e-bass fraternity. Or given the Catholic/ Jacobite associations of this particular tune, perhaps a Glasgow-Irish-Republican accordion street band (if there are any still - I haven't heard one in years). - Jack Campin:

Re: [scots-l] SHSA Comps

lifting an accordion or incur some stereotypical sort of bluesman's mayhem and you're in just the right place). - Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data &

Re: [scots-l] SHSA Comps

it works. If you want to be ready to play for a dance in a barn at a moment's notice you want something with fewer strings or none at all. - Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intoleran

Re: [scots-l] Tempos

ven't seen any of their programmes, but at least, their published collections (much later) are mostly made up of such (with jigs and few hornpipes) - no slow tunes. ----- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street,

Re: [scots-l] SHSA Comps

n was to get a specific tone colour on the fiddle, but if there's no evidence that the composer ever played it we might look for other explanations. Piano is the other option - most harpists played the piano too and a lot of music is explicitly intended for either, almost always in flat keys. --

Re: [scots-l] Tempos

> The Lowland and Border Pipers Society have an interesting method of > judging their annual competitions. Each performer is marked out of 100. > 50 marks are awarded by a judge looking at technique, tuning and so on. > The other 50 are given by 5 members of the audience selected at random > (ma

Re: [scots-l] re: A Fiddler's Book of Scottish Jigs

> A while ago I played >'The Birks of Invermay' from Bremner's 1758 guittar tutor - where it is >written without much 'snap', and for an instrument which is best played >delicately and with use of sustain. A Scottish country dancer friend >liked it and asked what it was - after I told him, he i

Re: [scots-l] research and a few questions

so teach more instruments than most people would think of learning in three lifetimes. - Jack Campin * 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland tel 0131 660 4760 * fax 0870 055 4975 * http://www.purr.demo

Re: [scots-l] More Scottish fiddle questions

> I want to buy more Scottish fiddle CDs. We've all forgotten Hector Macandrew so far - I think his recordings have been reissued lately. ----- Jack Campin * 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU,

Re: [scots-l] More Scottish fiddle questions

>> I want to buy more Scottish fiddle CDs. > This is a fun question. Since by "Scottish" you obviously don't mean > people necessarily from *Scotland* (as some of the people you mention > above are Americans), I'll list my 10 favs, in no particular order. > > Johnny Cunningham [...] > Tommy Peoples

Re: [scots-l] A Fiddler's Book of Scottish Jigs

> Alot of people take > creative license with tempo on tunes. For some reason the first one that > comes to mind is that tune I think it's called "the Waulkin' of the > Fould". I heard someone (maybe it was Johnny Cunningham) play it as a > slow air. I've also heard it play very even and strathspey

Re: [scots-l] A Fiddler's Book of Scottish Jigs

> A couple years ago, a gang of SCD troublemakers devised a > dance that they called the Strathspey Reel, and said that > it should be done to jigs. [...] "Strathspey Reel" is a > perfectly valid name for a jig, if it has a reel figure and > has some vague association with any place near the River

Re: [scots-l] Announce: Kelso Folk Club Jan 10

>> I fully appreciate that this notice will be reaching many who are >> thousands of miles from Kelso, but if you play loud enough we'll hear you! > [...] tunes will include: [...] Balvenie Manor > Freudian slip - I listed a tune as 'Balvenie Manor' due to not having > info next to me, and thinki

[scots-l] Here's tae us! Wha's like us?

>>> Given my context, I have a hard time hearing that as anything but >>> racist. >> Oh, Help! The toast was written long before "racism" was considered. > And I daresay that at the time, Scots were likely the least prejudiced in > the north of Europe. How many progressive-minded thinkers has Scot

Re: [scots-l] Re: Hogmany Traditional Tunes?

>> The highlight was a procession out to the torch lit football field >> where the entire community sang Auld lang sign. > Syne. Depends on whether they spelt out "1998" with the torches, doesn't it? There was man, his name was Lang, He had a neon sign; And Mr Lang was very old, So th

[scots-l] the "no pain, no gain" approach to music teaching

was not early and so we had to bear our hard fate. ----- Jack Campin * 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland tel 0131 660 4760 * fax 0870 055 4975 * http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ food int

Re: [scots-l] Disappointment

> I was hunting for records yesterday and when I found Robin Hall's 1958 > EP Glasgow Street Songs Vol.1, my heart leapt. I bought a few other > items, so it's only just now that I've looked at it. I took the record > out its sleeve to find... 'Atlantis' by The Shadows. Aargh! I've got a copy of t

Re: [scots-l] Harry Lauder 78s

>I'm in the process of appraising and liquidating a collection of 78 RPM >records, among which is a 78 of Sir Harry Lauder singing "Queen Among the >Heather" and "Bonnie Leezie Lindsay," non-electrical recording, >practically unplayed condition. I figured I'd give the folks here a look >before off

Re: [scots-l] Re: scots-l-digest V1 #441

>> Again, >> please unsubscribe me from all these lists. >> thank you > Haw ya bam, whit ur ye like! Jist cleek oan th blessit URL belaw an be > done wi it! D'ye want us tae haud yer haun atweel? It's no like it's naw > at th bottom o ilka ane o these posts! > Cleek an get aff ya wallopir ye! I

Re: [scots-l] Tune ID

> I got this tune from a friend who said he heard it played by a piping > busker in Edinburgh. Does anyone recognise it? > T:Tune in D > S:Robin Galloway, Edinburgh George Current had a brainwave tonight and says it's "Moonshine" by the samba-ceilidh band MacUmba - it's on their website (but in A

Re: [scots-l] traditional tune names?

> I've got lots of stuff as ABC and MP3. But I cannot tell from > looking which part of Britain they're from. A cheap source that will clue you in is Kerr's Merry Melodies, the basic resource used by most Scottish dance musicians for 120 years. It does contain English tunes, but they'd all been

Re: [scots-l] Book Sale Date?

>> the annual Christian Aid secondhand booksale in Edinburgh > Can someone let me know when this is? It sounds like a worthwhile > booksale to go to, and I'd like to rummage if I knew when it was. Early in May - lasts a full week. The most interesting stuff I got this year was collections of nin

Re: [scots-l] Fiddle 2002 (long-ish)

Being at my stall most of the weekend, the only recital I got to was Bruce Molsky's; I'd heard him a couple of years ago. I didn't like this one as much: he was more relaxed in the earlier one and told more stories about what he was playing - this time he seemed to be trying to cram as many notes

Re: [scots-l] Re: unsubscribe

to spammers. > People started really bitching about the spam. Especially Jack Campin, > who is very sensitive about his email address getting out. Spam sent to this list was a trivial problem compared with what I get from people who've mined this list or other web sources for addresses. The

[scots-l] Tony McManus

I ws in Sandy Bell's this evening and saw a notice for a memorial concert held yesterday for Tony McManus, 1953-2002. What happened? === === Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsu

Re: [scots-l] Re: Celtic Studies and an intro

> In these days of pub sessions, you don't see a lot of piano playing. > There was a women in Edinburgh who played a melodica - that instrument > which you blew through, but which had a little keyboard with which to > make the notes. She attached a long plastic hose to the end and laid it > flat on

[scots-l] talk about my CD-ROM, Sunday 24th, Edinburgh

emselves. More about Fiddle 2002 at www.scotsfiddlefestival.com or email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Jack Campin * 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland tel 0131 660 4760 * fax 0870 055 4975 * ht

Re: [scots-l] Re:I've got the virus too. Perhaps I can help.

> Horror! Last night, after being off email for over three weeks, > I read all the messages. I was mortified to see that I was at the > centre of a long thread about viruses. Yes, I did have a virus > but shut the machine off as soon as I realized it - too late [...] > The thread was fascinating, h

RE: [scots-l] I've got the virus too - perhaps I can help.

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Re: [scots-l] I've got the virus too - perhaps I can help.

>"Received: from [80.40.54.48] (helo=aol.com) > by mk-smarthost-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com with smtp (Exim 4.10) > id 181b7z-00046Y-00 > for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:29:33 +0100 >From: "thelanes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [scots-l] Border Ga

RE: [scots-l] Re: Shetland Fiddler, The

>> both "The Hawk" and the currently-played >> version of "The Shetland Fiddler" are in E. > Currently played by whom? I've only ever heard it played in D. Can't remember, I've only heard live amateur performances of it. Probably somebody who got the two tunes mixed up, it seems... ===

Re: [scots-l] Hector the Hero

song but it's the sort of thing you can imagine Anne Lorne Gillies trying. A 6/8 strathspey is a concept I have a hard time getting my head round. It is sometimes done as a waltz. I think there are plenty enough real waltzes around without pressing laments into service for that. ---

Re: [scots-l] Re: Shetland Fiddler, The

>> This tune also appears in Jerry Holland's Collection of Fiddle Tunes. >> According to a footnote there, the tune first appeared in a pipe >> setting in "The Edcath Collection" Vol. 1, 1954 by Donald Shaw >> Ramsay. > Ah that solves it. It doesn't. The Edcath tune is in D (as it has to be to b

[scots-l] here comes bugbear - **READ THIS** if you use Tiscali

I just got a copy of the bugbear virus that must have come from someone reading this list. It was not routed through scots-l itself. Here are the relevant parts of the header and body: >Received: from [80.40.54.94] (helo=aol.com) > by mk-smarthost-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com with smtp (Exim 4.1

Re: [scots-l] Re: Moothie Players (was: primarily Scottish?)

> What sort of tunings do they use? I've never heard of Scottish > harmonica players. Usually diatonic harmonicas with tremolo reeds, with several on hand (at least A/D/G) for quick key changes. It parallels the contrast between favoured melodeon types in Scottish and Irish music - Irish players

RE: [scots-l] Re: Music source books

>> No can do. Skinner's books use a lot of fiddle-specific notation that >> ABC can't represent. > I'm not convinced. Could you give us some examples? Opening "The Scottish Violinist" at random, I hit page 48. All the tunes on the page have fermatas, which are doable in most current implementat

Re: [scots-l] Re: Music source books

>> Simply putting raw scans[of Skinner's work] on-line would be better. > Wouldn't there be some copyright issues with raw scans though? The Lester Levy sheet music collection is mostly stuff published in Skinner's lifetime, and they seem to have found a way round it; they are high-profile enough

Re: [scots-l] Re: Music source books

#x27;s not the right tool. Simply putting raw scans on-line would be better. ----- Jack Campin * 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland tel 0131 660 4760 * fax 0870 055 4975 * http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ food intolerance data &

RE: [scots-l] Source tunes

>>> 'Da Mirrie Dancers' was one of my first book of tunes. I can't find >>> a source for it now- is it available? Somebody pinched my original. >> The Shetland Times office in Lerwick. > That's what I thought, but it's not listed on their web site so maybe > it's out of print now? I got mine l

Re: [scots-l] Re: Moothie Players (was: primarily Scottish?)

>> ...does anyone have anyone good recommendations of recordings of >> Scottish "mouthie" players? > I should have added George Current to the list. I don't know if he's > recorded anything, but he has played around the Edinburgh scene and > has been persuaded by ALP to teach an evening class. He

[scots-l] 3/2 + 6/4 tunes

There are a couple of recent tunes in 6/4 that get played a lot - "Marni Swanson 0f the Grey Coast" (I forget who wrote that) and Catriona Macdonald's "The joy of it". They are very similar, both somewhat new-agey, and I don't find either of them very memorable (in fact I wonder if the memory-tes

RE: [scots-l] Source tunes

n classic. "The Flow Country". --------- Jack Campin * 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland tel 0131 660 4760 * fax 0870 055 4975 * http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/ food intolerance data & recipes, f

RE: [scots-l] Music source books

se were, they don't seem to be current any more. The early 6/8 quicksteps were sometimes adapted from Irish, English or Scottish jigs and sometimes gave rise to them. ----- Jack Campin * 11 Third Street, Newtongrange,

RE: [scots-l] Music source books

I think Ted Hastings wirte this, it was in HTML and the result was I couldn't quoted material from reply. > Most Irish tunes are in D or G, whereas many Scottish tunes > (particularly those derived from the highland pipes) are in A. What's happening here seems mainly to be a consequence of the d

Re: [scots-l] Music source books

> Is there a significant difference between the Scottish and the Irish > genres?  I play Celtic Music (mainly Irish) on the hammer dulcimer and > play a lot of fiddle tunes, generally preferring the slip jigs and > tunes with a rhythmic or melodic twist...not much into waltzes and aires.   In so

Re: [scots-l] Moothie Players (was: primarily Scottish?)

>> ...does anyone have anyone good recommendations of recordings of >> Scottish "mouthie" players? > Donald Black is a contemporary player with at least a couple of CDs. > There isn't a great deal else available. > So who are the Scots moothie players? [Donald Davidson, Willie Fraser, > Davy Marsh

Re: [scots-l] Music source books

> BTW, someone mentioned a William Marshall collection; I can't find that > message again and think I accidentally deleted it. I'd appreciate more > details on that one if anyone has it (or any other good Marshall collections > if there's more than one) as he's rapidly becoming one of my favorite

Re: [scots-l] Re: Music source books

>> I'm wondering just what you would use as your music source books. >> Would you mind sharing? > Hi Rita. Luckily I had compiled such a list back at the beginning of > April, so here goes: >1. Clan Dumphries Miscellany - a collection of sheep-calls, > cattle-summoning songs, mussel-sellers' dit

Re: [scots-l] Re: Music source books

hing for certain gave me that > impression about them. They have an irritating habit of replacing the original tune for a dance with something entirely unrelated and which doesn't obviously work any better. ----- Jack Camp

Re: [scots-l] Re: Music source books

s to look for it again. It's heavy and will be expensive to post. ----- Jack Campin * 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland tel 0131 660 4760 * fax 0870 055 4975 * http://www.purr.demon.

Re: [scots-l] Music source books

Here's mine - some overlap with Cynthia's: 1. The Macfarlan Manuscript 2. The Scots Musical Museum 3. David Glen's collection 4. G.F. Graham's The Popular Songs and Melodies of Scotland 5. Kerr's Merry Melodies 6. Nathaniel Gow's Vocal Melodies of Scotland 7. Gall and Inglis, Select Songs

Re: [scots-l] Cuilfhionn

> I was going to ask if anyone knew this tune [...] has the alternative > name "Fingal's Weeping". As you say it's "Fingal's Cave" (in Kerr MM v1). > T:Cuilfhionn [...] > K:A A minor, I hope, or you've been listening to the Old Deaf Dogs. ===

Re: [scots-l] Warrior o' Persie

> Does anyone know whom Skinner is referencing in the title [The Warrior > o' Persie]? Was he a contemporary (i.e. Victorian) military figure? Persie is unknown to my Scottish gazetteer. Which collection was this from? When? Skinner was usally topical with his dedications. If "Persie" is Per

Re: [scots-l] Angus Polkas

>> Anyone else know these polkas? The second one starts off a bit like >> "The Rattlin Bog/John McAlpine" but then departs. > The second was in the repertoire of the old Edinburgh Shetland Fiddlers > in the 70s. Not note for note, but the same tune. Their version was less > polka-ish, more march

Re: [scots-l] Bonaparte's Retreat

> Each time they play it through, Bain/Cunningham play it a slightly > different way - I can't decide whether they're simply making mistakes. > Does anyone know the tune from another source? > > X:414 > T:Bonaparte's Retreat I have heard people play that at the Edinburgh Shetland Fiddlers, and al

Re: [scots-l] VIRUS how to remove it.

> This particular 'virus' is a hoax, and the file should not be deleted... > It file is part of the operating system. Au contraire, it's a first step towards deleting the whole of Windows, and as such is to be given the utmost encouragement. ===

Re: [scots-l] Filska Tunes?

> Here's the track listing: > Bunjie's Dilemma (Charlie Soane - I presume this is the fiddler from Perth) I suppose it's different enough to need a new name, but basically it's "The Cuckoo's Nest". === === Posted to Scots-L -

[scots-l] Re: Embro, Embro

Nigel gave me a very generous review of > Embro, Embro - the hidden history of Edinburgh in its music, > by Jack Campin (A CD-ROM of the music of Edinburgh.) but forgot to include any contact details. The URL for it is <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/embro/>. I have now arranged for

[scots-l] Embro, Embro CD-ROM available

who you are... Here's the blurb (basically the above page made into plain text): Embro, Embro the hidden history of Edinburgh in its music Jack Campin ===

[scots-l] a royal dance

Having listened to the Holyrood-Jubilee-Special "Take the Floor" tonight, which I thought was about the most dismal edition of the program I've ever heard (mainly because tunes written for recent members of the Royal Family are all mechanical, uninspired rubbish, and this program included as many

[scots-l] Lauder Sixsome

I'm supposed to be playing for a Lauder Sixsome next week. This is a dance collected by the Fletts where I believe the prescribed tune is "Cameron's Got his Wife Again", but apparently the dance phrases are peculiar lengths so it goes out of sync and then catches up again. Is there a standard wa

Re: [scots-l] Re: Maggie Cameron

>> X:1 >> T:Maggie Cameron >> B:Scots Guards Standard Settings of Pipe Tunes >> Z:Jack Campin 1999 > Would you object if I added your ABC to my index of tunes in the Kerr's > collections? No problem if you do mind. Say what? Where does that occur in the Kerr's collections? Does anybody know whe

Re: [scots-l] Oswald's Caledonian Pocket Companion

> Does anyone know if there has been a reprint of this work? > Someone suggested that John Purser might be involved. There are two projects to do it. John Purser was involved in one, along with the Hardie Press. They split with some sort of acrimony the reasons for which I know not. Purser is

[scots-l] Internet radio

Found this on uk.comp.sys.mac. Good news for Toby's little station... > A copyright proposal that would have meant the death of the vast > majority of Internet broadcasters (who would, amongst other things, have > had to pay between 0.4 and 0.6c per song per listener - retroactively, > too) in t

RE: [scots-l] Re: Tonic Sol-Fa

putum stains. It would cost about five pounds to pack and post to the US or Australia (I think the person asking was in one or the other). Maybe we can arrange a swap for something. ----- Jack Campin * 11 Third Street

Re: [scots-l] Session Venues in Edinburgh [was: Scots Music Quiz]

> I think we've been lucky. It's no easy thing to find a decent pub who > will thole a session, now that so many pubs are given over to football > coverage. If the West End say aye, it's a place to play. It may not be > perfect, but then neither are we. If you have any other suggestions, > I'm hap

Re: [scots-l] Re: Scots Music Quiz

> [The Castle Arms] was a good place, though not very popular with > customers, it looks like! > On the other hand, the West End has a great atmosphear, at least to > me, it would be good if you can keep on there. I really do not like the layout or acoustic of the West End - puts people too fa

[scots-l] Dr. Guthrie's daughter

No tune for this but I guess folk rhymes might be near enough... Anybody know the "Dr. Guthrie's daughter" rhyme? If so could you pass it on the way you remember it? If you post to the list I suggest you rot-13 the thing; at least one subscriber here reads from a site with net-nanny software th

Re: [scots-l] Re: Lily of the Vale

>> Strange from a musician's point of view, because all have four >> 6-bar sections. I've no doubt it makes perfect sense from a dancing >> p.o.v. - my woeful ignorance of dancing hampers me once again! > Actually, Foss's dance "Cairn Edward", for which these tunes were set, > is almost unique in

Re: [scots-l] Re: Fleein' the doo'

> To "flee the doo" or "flee the blue" means to send someone out > surreptitiously for more whisky, so the meaning becomes clear > in the context of the song. I can think of quite a few pubs where you might get served faster by sending your order by pigeon. ===

Re: [scots-l] Re: Iomramh eadar Il'as Uist

>> Hi there, I'm looking for some background to this Gaelic tune; all >> that I know is that it appears in the Simon Fraser Collection and, >> presumebly, given its title, would have been a song used for keeping >> the rythm while rowing (in those days with not many causeways!). Islay to Uist wou

[scots-l] Addie Harper

I heard last night on Take the Floor that Addie Harper had died (mentioned as if it were some while ago and we all ought to know about it). When was this? Anyone seen any good obituaries? === === Posted to Scots-L - The Tradi

[scots-l] Modes tutorial updated

I've uploaded a new version of the modes tutorial on my website (see the URL below). Let me know of any problems? === === Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point yo

Re: [scots-l] Jack's ABCs (was: Few Notes)

> If you put a file full of abc tunes on the web, presumably it's so that > people can download it. Otherwise, there is no obvious motive to > putting it on the web at all. And most users are going to feed it to > one or more of the extant abc tools. All of them that I know of have > the abili

RE: [scots-l] Re: Tonic Sol-Fa

e Highlands, which might go some way towards explaining why his system did so well there). What they didn't try was brass band music. If they'd made a concerted push into the main genre of instrumental mass music-making in the 19th century, staff notation might be a historical curiosity l

Re: [scots-l] Re: Few Notes

> Re: They Stole My Wife Last Night. It is in the Patrick McDonald > collection (1784). [...] Also in Aird a few years later and other places known to Charlie's index. > Do you have the McDonald collection? I thought somebody had reprinted it but now can't find any trace of the reprint. Was I

Re: [scots-l] Charles the Twelfth King of Sweden

Pass this on to the Strathspey list if you like (but not with my email address if they have a public archive or might ever have one). - Jack Campin * 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU, Scotland tel 0131 660 4760 * fax 0870 055 4975 * http:

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