Re: [scots-l] lift the bow off the strings?

ently on the reels. The strathspeys I like to whip the bow around a bit more. Tends to give them more of an edge. -- Toby Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I don't try to be better then anybody else. I only try to be better than myself." - Dan Jansen, Olympic Gold Medalist & World

Re: [scots-l] Unsubscribe

gt; > cheers and have a > Good New Year > Derek > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To > subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: > http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Toby Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I don't try to be

Re: [scots-l] Unsubscribe

- To > subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: > http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Toby Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I don't try to be better then anybody else. I only try to be better than myself." - Dan Jansen, Olympic Gold Medalist & World Record Holder, Speed Skati

Re: [scots-l] Harry Lauder 78s

Is this a slightly veiled reference to Freddie Mercury's "preference"? :-) On Sat, 2002-12-21 at 07:16, Clifford Abrams wrote: > At a piping concert last year in STL, "the Gay Gordons" was announced > as "The Very Happy Gordons". > > CliffA &

Re: [scots-l] Harry Lauder 78s

> "Queen Among the Heather"? good grief. Hey, wasn't that the album that came after "Queen At The BBC" in 1995? When Freddie Mercury was still at the height of his bell-bottomed glory?? :-) -- Toby Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I don't try to be bett

Re: [scots-l] apologies about list replies

> - I guess it thinks it knows better > > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To > subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: > http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Toby Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "I don't try to be better then a

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

rgot. > Sue me. I've been looking for an excuse to cross the pond -- an order > to appear in court is just as good a one as any! > > Respectfully submitted. > > > > > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To > subscribe/unsubscrib

Re: [scots-l] Book Sale Date?

On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 14:54, Jack Campin wrote: > Did you only just get that message? If so it must have been held > up somewhere for a record time. Pity email messages don't get grubby > marks like paper envelopes do - I've heard of one envelope that took > a year to get through the New Zealand

Re: [scots-l] Re: unsubscribe

> Isn't majordomo flexible enough to allow automated user-driven > subscription management without allowing a "who" command? "who" > surely has few enough constructive uses that preventing spammers > from using it matters more than making it available to legitimate > users. (I doubt whether it's

Re: [scots-l] Re: unsubscribe

le started really bitching about the spam. Especially Jack Campin, who is very sensitive about his email address getting out. > I don't get it. How can you abuse Subscribe, unsubscribe...what's to > "ruin"? > > CliffA > > > --- Toby Rider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [scots-l] Re: unsubscribe

Hopefully it won't get abused like it did a couple years ago. It only takes a couple of assholes to ruin things for everyone. Know what I mean?? > Nigel said: > >> > It isn't as straightforward as you think to unsubscribe; it doesn't >> seem to be done

Re: [scots-l] Re: unsubscribe

It does now. I opened up sub/unsub requests about two weeks ago, because I was tired of people freaking out when it would take me a week to approve the requests. If you go to the page and click submit, you're on or you're off.. > The Rev Dr Ian Adkins wrote: > >> Haw you, whit ur ye like! D'

Re: [scots-l] Re: J. Scott Skinners new CD

> David learned a lot of Mary > MacDonald tunes from old tapes, some of which were too slow. Doug > MacPhee has often had to remind him to speed up a bit because she > didn't play things that slow. But it's hard to change your > ingrained impression when you've listened to something over and ov

Re: [scots-l] Re: J. Scott Skinners new CD

It wouldn't take too much for them to digitally get the recordings down to the correct speed by using reference notes and comparing them their pitch if it was correctly tuned. I hope they did that on these new reissue recordings. >>I like the album as a historical document, to hear how Skinner

Re: [scots-l] Re: Help ID a tune in an Realaudio file, please

John, use this free program to convert .ram files into mp3s. If Nigel can't listen to mp3's on his computer, then it's time to get a new machine :-) http://rawavrecorder.homestead.com/ > John Erdman wrote: > >> The tune can be heard at: >> http://www.redshoepub.com/audio/MairiRankin2.ram > > Al

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

Harder to ignore, because they play with more volume and some of them have some killer chops, or harder to ignore because some of them are female and good-looking?? Toby > Nigel said: >> The Cape Breton fiddlers tend to take more interest >> in their pianists, I believe, than the Scots. > > Cap

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

On Sat, 2002-11-16 at 03:49, Nigel Gatherer wrote: > Kathie wrote: > I'll bet you're thinking otherwise now. Apart from a flurry of activity > a couple of months ago, this mailing list is practically dead. However, > one thing to shock it into life is to ask questions, so if there's > anything you

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

this is one of the most heated discussions on this list in awhile, and it doesn't even have anything to do with Scottish music or culture :-) -- Toby Rider "He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That puts it not unto the touch To win or lose it all."

Re: [scots-l] Derek Bell...bad news

iacathcart.net/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html -- Toby Rider "He either fears his fate too much, Or his deserts are small, That puts it not unto the touc

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

Janice Chan wrote: Philip Whittaker wrote: I have emailed them, to try and find out whether they have the virus or have taken any precautions. I can do this withour worry - one advantage of using one of the less common operating systems Philip Since this is likely the "Bugbear" worm, I too

Re: [scots-l] Hector the Hero

Carla and Bob Rogers wrote: I also have recordings of Johnny Cunningham > and Laura Risk playing it. They all sound different from one another. So decide how it should sound to you and play it that way.. :-) Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subsc

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

Jack Campin wrote: > > And no it would NOT do to simply code up some quick abcm2ps-style hacks > to reproduce Skinner's notational graphics. That would simply create > hostages to fortune as there is no telling what people or their programs > would interpret them as in future. The right way to

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

Nigel Gatherer wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Carla and Bob Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>Jack Campin wrote: >> > >>...does anyone have anyone good recommendations of recordings of >>Scottish "mouthie" players? > > >>Did I get the attribution correct? > > >

Re: [scots-l] Where did all the digests come from??

I had upgraded mailservers about 1-2 months ago, the old hardware had become too slow. It was a long and tedious process, as the previous mailserver had been up continuously for about 4 years.. Alot of the upgrade had to be done by hand, as I changed flavors of Unix and a bunch of othe

[scots-l] Tunebook list

So is anyone going to volunteer to compile the list of top tune sources?? Bueller.. Bueller... :-) Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [scots-l] Music source books

Ted Hastings wrote: >> Ah, but I always think of where the music originally came >>from. Sure >>there are plenty of Irish-style players that play strathspeys, now and >>in the past. Liz Carol always composes and records a couple on each >>album. It's just like all those jigs that Scottish p

Re: [scots-l] Re: playing styles

Rita Hamilton wrote: > ...snip...> Laura Risk taught for the San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers, and she > took some time to demonstrate various styles (highland, lowland, Shetland). I > started > >>realizing there's a lot more complexity there than I thought! After that I >>started listening more

Re: [scots-l] Music source books

Ted Hastings wrote: >> Yes, there are some significant differences, on multiple >>levels. There >>will probably be about 10 messages pointing out differences and >>similarities.. The one that I want to point out is that Irish music >>doesn't have Strathspeys.. To me Strathspeys are very impo

Re: [scots-l] Music source books

Steve Wyrick wrote: > Watch out if you have Krassen's version of O'Neill's Music of Ireland; he > adds a ton of ornamentation, almost all of which is incorrect for the > Scottish versions of the tunes. The reprint of the original which I think > is from Mel Bay publishers would be better since i

Re: [scots-l] Music source books

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > As I've been following this subject with great interest, I've become > curious. 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 prefe

Re: [scots-l] primarily Scottish?

Well, once a list is establiished, we can set up a method of voting online, so the priority will be determined by the list members as a whole. How does that sound? Rita Hamilton wrote: > I do not question, only occasionally request > clarification!!!(grin!) ...snip... > >> I thin

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

Jack Campin wrote: >>>...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, Willi

Re: [scots-l] primarily Scottish?

Cynthia Cathcart wrote: > In a message dated 10/5/02 9:42:53 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > That's still tough, Rita. Is the individual looking at this list a > harper or a fiddler? (Since you posted your request on the Scots list as > well as the harplist, I'm going

Re: [scots-l] Re: Willie's Lady

Nigel Gatherer wrote: > Clifford Abrams wrote: > > >>I just listened to "Willie's Lady". Any information on that friendly >>household sprite, the Billy Blind (or Belly Blind, etc.)? Thanks. > > > Greetings, Cliff. Probably nothing that you don't already know. It's a > form of broonie or browni

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

Nigel Gatherer wrote: > So it's not just me, then? I've been straining my ears to hear bells > and antipodean growls on the CD - thought it may have been too subtle > for my cauliflower ears. Were you a wrestler in a former life? Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & C

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

Nigel Gatherer wrote: > The RSCDS Books (several volumes, but the early ones are best) > Lots of good tunes from various sources, and the odd not bad > contemporary one. I always found that they tended to butcher tunes in those. I can't remember a specific example, but something for cer

Re: [scots-l] Music source books

Can we agree to cheat? How about a list of the top 50 best Scottish musical sources? This would make good information for a website. Ted Hastings wrote: > Toby's given a great selection of the classic titles, but I think there are > a number of more modern collections also worthy of c

Re: [scots-l] Music source books

Cynthia Cathcart wrote: > I concur with a lot Toby's choices, but I'm going to favor my > instrument. And sorry, I can't keep to 10 titles either! > > 1. The Harp Key (Alison Kinnaird) > 2. The Lothian Collection (Alison Kinnaird) > 3. The ANGUS Fraser collection > 4. Adam Craig Collection (lots

Re: [scots-l] [Fwd: Re: [START] Gaelic Medium Feis]

Ah good.. People still actually read the postings on this list.. That's an encouraging sign :-) Toby Cynthia Cathcart wrote: > At 10:19 AM 10/2/02 -0700, you wrote: > >> The Gaelic harp students in Staffin, Edinburgh, Dingwall and Ullapool >> who might attend the Edinburgh Fèis an F

Re: [scots-l] Music source books

Okay, I am going to cheat. I am listing a top 11. Here goes: 1. Athole Collection 2. Skye Collection 3. Kerr's Merry Melodies (The entire series) 4. Simon Fraser Collection 5. Glen Collection 6. J.S. Skinner's Harp & Claymore 7. Scots Guard Book #1 8. The Ross Collection (The entire series

[scots-l] [Fwd: Re: [START] Gaelic Medium Feis]

--- Begin Message --- Title: Gaelic Medium Feis Tuition will be offered in ... Clàrsach   Sorry, that is no longer acceptable from an organisation at the forefront of Gaelic music education. The Wire Branch of the Clarsach Society has a busy website providing information that the Fèis sho

Re: [scots-l] Peter Milne

Ted Hastings wrote: > Is he having a party? > > Ted > Will the Gows and J. Scott Skinner be there? Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[scots-l] [Fwd: [START] FW: a reply to message on TAA meeting]

This might be of interest. Toby --- Begin Message --- And then everybody could of course come along for the autumn opening night at Edinburgh Folk Club (The Pleasance Cabaret Bar, 8pm) - where we have, on Wednesday, 18 September, Margaret Stewart & Allan MacDonald - a fine blend of pip

[scots-l] [Fwd: [START] Scotsman Column]

--- Begin Message --- Title: Scotsman Column Dear All The next Gaelic column on traditional music goes in on Friday 23 August, so if you've any CDs, books, news or events please get them to me for Monday 19th. Moran taing, Catriona Black Catriona Black 2/9 Parkside

[scots-l] [Fwd: [START] Ceilidh Band]

--- Begin Message --- This doesn't seem to have reached the START Group, so I'll try again.   Hi Everyone, I'd like to do an article in the August Edition of the Box & Fiddle, entitled "Talk

[scots-l] [Fwd: [START] Fiddlers' Rally and A Call to all Skye & Lochalsh TraditionalMusicians!]

--- Begin Message --- Please feel free to use any of the information below in publications or programmes and onpass to any interested parties. FIDDLERS' RALLY Saturday 22nd June 2002 Aros Heritage Centre, Portree, Isle of Skye   GUESTS  PAUL ANDERSON (Fiddle) DONNIE MURDO MACLEOD (Gae

[scots-l] [Fwd: larach lin]

--- Begin Message ---   Rinn sinn làrach-lìn ùr, SGRIOBH! The web site for Gaelic writers and learners, with new written work, lessons and books and including the BOTHY for writers in Scots.Tha am proiseact seo air a dhèanamh airson misneachadh a thoirt do dhuine sam bith a tha airson sgri

Re: [scots-l] subscribe

You sucessfully posted this to the list. You are on there. Sigh Toby John and Sharon Knowles wrote: > We have been dropped from the list for some reason. please reinstate us! > > Thanks. > www.fynesound.com Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish

[scots-l] Internet radio station

BTW, I got some technical problems worked out with it, so now I am able to broadcast with twice the fidelity as before. I've got it up to 48bit stereo. It's sounds alot better then before! Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscrib

Re: [scots-l] Internet radio

They'll never crush me! I'll go underground if I have to! :-) Toby Jack Campin wrote: > 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

[scots-l] Re: Scottish mandolinist

Oh right. That's them. It's a small world eh? I also remember his daughter Anna. A young girl with blondish short hair. She looked alot younger then 19! His wife was not at the house party, if I recall correctly. Anna has a very slippery sort of style of playing. Actually she so

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

Still trying to figure out who the Scottish Mandolinist was that I encountered at this house party in Glendale (Nova Scotia, Canada) a couple years back. A great player. He was from Inverness (Scotland) and had a beard.. Ha..ha..ha.. I know that really narrows it down :-) Toby Ted H

Re: [scots-l] Unsubscribe

When you use the html form on the website, the request comes to me. I have to approve it. I am a very busy guy. I have all of the computers in the Physics & Astronomy department at UCLA that I administrate. Plus trying to play music, plus I am a competitive bicycle racer. So I get to the l

[scots-l] mailing list archives

hink it is worth checking out: http://www.mail-archive.com/ Toby Rider Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[scots-l] [Fwd: [START] Scottish Parliament's 1000 days]

Original Message Subject: [START] Scottish Parliament's 1000 days Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 17:31:44 - From: "cathypeattiemsp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: "cathypeattiemsp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Alan Smart of the Scottish Parliament's Broadcasting Un

Re: [scots-l] Tempi and other not so dumb questions

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, Derek Hoy wrote: > Bob said: > > When I was in high school, we lived at Fort Riley, Kansas, an infantry > > post. > > They played bugle calls several (15?) times a day. Of course they played > > retreat to take down the flag, which was preceeded by firing the howitzer. > >

[scots-l] Shoutcast station

I got the Shoutcast Scottish station back up. Hopefully it will stay up for awhile, but since the Winamp piece runs on Windoze, you can never be very sure :-) Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http

[scots-l] shoutcast radio station

My shoutcast server has once again found a new home. So the Scottish traditional music station is back up. Enjoy! http://www.shoutcast.com/directory/?s=celtic&st=gs&l=25 Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your brows

Re: [scots-l] Cycling tours of the Scottish Highlands

What happened to the rest of this message? Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

Re: [scots-l] Scots-L List

Clifford, You just posted to the list :-) All you have to do is send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clifford Abrams wrote: > > Speaking of subscribing, i signed up for the list and have been > getting the postings, but i'm unaware how to make an original > posting-- which i have w

Re: [scots-l] Scots-L List

Nigel Gatherer wrote: > > Toby, I've never said anything, but I for one owe you much thanks for > creating Scots-L. I occasionally get frustrated with the lack of > traffic at times, but I'm so glad that a forum exists where I can > discuss one of my abiding passions, Scottish music. Thanks agai

Re: [scots-l] Another dumb question?

Steve Wyrick wrote: > > On our local San Francisco Scottish Fiddlers mail list a question came up > that is driving me crazy; I should be able to figure this out but can't. > Someone asked whether a grace note is played on the beat, or ahead of the > beat. I maintained that for dance or march mu

[scots-l] Name of pipe strathspey

Does anyone know the name of the pipe strathspey that Brendan plays right after Dusky Meadow, but before the John Campbell reel in this set: http://barra.tullochgorm.com/mp3s/scottish/MabouRidgeSet.mp3 I can't put a name to this tune! Thanks! Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditiona

Re: [scots-l] Tempi

John Chambers wrote: > > Toby wrote: > | John Chambers wrote: > | > OTOH, some of them understand the differences very well, including > | > the march/reel/hornpipe distinction and how airs differ from > | > strathspeys. I know a few dance leaders who are clear when they want > | > h

Re: [scots-l] Tempi

John Chambers wrote: > OTOH, some of them understand the differences very well, including > the march/reel/hornpipe distinction and how airs differ from > strathspeys. I know a few dance leaders who are clear when they want > hornpipe tunes rather than reels, mostly because it's nat

Re: [scots-l] Jerry Holland's new book

Wendy Galovich wrote: > > On Monday 28 January 2002 23:29, Toby Rider wrote: > > Does anyone know where I can buy a copy of Jerry Holland's new book > > domestically? The last time I ordered from Paul Cranford, it took about > > 3 months for it to arrive. Thanks! &

Re: [scots-l] Jerry Holland's new book

Great. I'll try Mel Bay directly. Toby Steve Wyrick wrote: > > Toby Rider wrote: > > > Does anyone know where I can buy a copy of Jerry Holland's new book > > domestically? The last time I ordered from Paul Cranford, it took about > > 3 months for it to

[scots-l] Jerry Holland's new book

Does anyone know where I can buy a copy of Jerry Holland's new book domestically? The last time I ordered from Paul Cranford, it took about 3 months for it to arrive. Thanks! Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your b

[scots-l] testing

testing. I am upgrading the mailserver. Thanks Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[scots-l] Calling Admiral Ian.

Sorry for the broadcast message! Ian Adkins, I am not sure what email address you're listening on now. Can you shoot me an email directly? Thanks! Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullo

[scots-l] [Fwd: BOUNCE scots-l@: Non-member submission from ["Susan Storrier" ]]

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[scots-l] shoutcast station

BTW, I put the Shoutcast station back up. It was temporarily down for a couple days. Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html

[scots-l] [Fwd: [START] Merry Christmas! Good news from Fife!]

--- Begin Message --- Fife’s Traditional Musicians in Schools start on a high note Fife’s Traditional Musicians in Schools project has proved a great success in its first term with residencies in three Secondary Schools and one-off workshops elsewhere. Singer and piper Maggie Anderson

[scots-l] [Fwd: BOUNCE scots-l@: Non-member submission from ["Dan Mozell" ]]

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[scots-l] Scottish music station back online

Okay, I got the Shoutcast streams backup on a server at the new location. You can find it under the shoutcast directory search for "celtic", or you can connect directly at 207.136.137.66 Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point yo

[scots-l] [Fwd: [START] Gaelceangal]

--- Begin Message --- A Chairdean/Friends,   I have recently set up an e-mail forum/group called 'Gaelceangal'.  Its aim is to promote discussion/debate on how Gaelic organisations/individuals can further links between the various Gaelic nations/people.  If you are interested in joining th

[scots-l] Moving the shoutcast server

I am physically moving the shoutcast server for my Scottish Internet radio station, so it will be intermittently down during Friday and Saturday. Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tulloch

[scots-l] [Fwd: BOUNCE scots-l@: Non-member submission from [David Kilpatrick ]]

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[scots-l] [Fwd: BOUNCE scots-l@: Non-member submission from ["Ellery, Karen" ]]

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Re: [scots-l] Essential discography, bibliography?

My vote is for the Athole Collection :-) -- Toby Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) "From the lone shieling of the misty island Mountains divide us, and the waste of seas Yet still the blood is strong, The heart is Highland And we in dreams behold the Hebrides..&qu

[scots-l] [Fwd: BOUNCE scots-l@: Non-member submission from [David Kilpatrick ]]

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Re: [scots-l] Re: Scottish music shoutcast station back up

utcast station back up > >Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 20:02:58 -0700 > > > >Toby Rider wrote: > > > > > Actually it sometimes doesn't show up under the search string below. > > > However it does seem to show up under a search for "celtic"... Hmm.. >

Re: [scots-l] Places

David Francis wrote: > I thought this might be a good one for the mighty collective brain of > scots-l. > > I'm working, through the Scots Music Group in Edinburgh, with an evening > class of aspiring guitar accompanists, many of whom are quite new to > traditional instrumental music. Mostly th

[scots-l] Mozilla open-source browser supports the Scots Tongue

BTW, for all Lallans speakers on here, I just noticed that the Mozilla Open-source browser has a localized build for the Scots tongue: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_status.html#moz_0.95 Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubsc

Re: [scots-l] Chisholm?

Christopher Rennie wrote: > > Hello All, > > Forgive the tangential left turn on this topic but > > Is Angus Chisholm any relation to Duncan Chisholm, fiddler of some fleeting > youthful fame, particularly through the Scots rock band Wolfstone and some > solo work. His solo album was a rec

[kitchenceilidh] Re: Scottish music shoutcast station back up

Actually it sometimes doesn't show up under the search string below. However it does seem to show up under a search for "celtic"... Hmm.. Toby Toby Rider wrote: > > Okay, I am streaming Scottish music on the web again. Do a search on > www.shoutcast.

[kitchenceilidh] Scottish music shoutcast station back up

Okay, I am streaming Scottish music on the web again. Do a search on www.shoutcast.com for: Toby's Scottish & Irish music and it will show. You'll be able to connect to it with Winamp, or XMMS, or any other decent mp3s player. Remember, do not look a gift horse in the mouth. Do not

Re: [scots-l] Re: scots-l-digest V1 #420

;first version". :-) Mike McGeary wrote: > Toby Rider wrote: "...'Paresis", a pretty popular tune in Cape Breton, esp. > among the great players of the last generation, like Winston Fitzgerald and > Angus Chisholm I think Paresis is a tune from t

Re: [scots-l] The Mouth of the Tobique

players of the last generation, like Winston Fitzgerald and Angus Chisholm. He has a different name for it and he gives it a different feel, but it's definately the same tune. I think Paresis is a tune from the "New World". I was wondering about that tune because I think I heard

[scots-l] The Mouth of the Tobique

Does anyone have some info. on this tune? I'm assuming it's of French Canadian origin? Thanks! -- Toby A. Rider ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Unix Systems Administrator Frontera Corporation (http://www.fronteracorp.com) Los Angeles, CA. "UNIX is user friendly. It's just very selective abou

[scots-l] [Fwd: BOUNCE scots-l@: Non-member submission from [John Erdman ]]

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Re: [scots-l] Help with Gaelic

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Nigel Gatherer asked for translation/pronunciation of "Buain na > Rainich," > which is the title of a Gaelic song also sometimes called "Tha mi > Sgith." Tha mi sgith? Tha! Tha mi uamasach sgith! Ciamar a tha a h-uile duine? Toby Posted to Scots-L - The Tra

Re: [scots-l] Tune Archive

I've been thinking about this for awhile. About putting up an ABC respository on the web that has an easy web-based interface that allows anyone to post an ABC tune to the appropriate tune category, and all the tunes are stored on the back-end in some database, like MySQL or PostGres..

Re: [scots-l] Tune Archive

John Chambers wrote: > > This could be a useful resource to future musical historians. For that > matter, it can be useful to people today. > I pretty sure I have the rest of them since I moved the list off of listbox and onto the mail server argyll. I'll check this afternoon. Toby P

Re: [scots-l] Mist-Covered Mountains

Kate Dunlay or David Greenberg wrote: > > >My questions: does anyone know where this tune came from? The Gaelic on the > >RR website is "Chi mi na mor-bheanna". What is the tune about? > > >From page 13 of Helen Creighton and Calum MacLeod's "Gaelic Songs in Nova > Scotia" (1979): > > "Gaelic w

Re: [scots-l] Re: A session wi the (insert name here) Lasses

Jonathan Hill wrote: > > Hi Toby! Yes, I can imagine! How about if the music were less accessible? My > idiosyncratic sense of timing might help? Anyway, these weeks of sitting by > the phone Saturdays have paid off...got a gig tonight (pub, natch!) > Jonathan > (PS, I take it you mean 'pissed' a

Re: [scots-l] Re: A session wi the (insert name here) Lasses

Jonathan Hill wrote: > Now IF we had Coffee Shops & non-alcohol-dominated venues & social sites > like towns in the US & Canada things might be different. They would go broke > for a start; Central Perk could not exist on the proceeds of one or two AA > meetings a week > (to be continued..) >

Re: [scots-l] FW: my grandads problem

Hey hoch laddie :-) What does FSO-CS stand for?? Toby Dr Ian Adkins FSO-CS wrote: > > Muzak is precisely what this is beginning to sound like. Does this 78 > come with a grass kilt and pineapple haggis? :D > Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subs

Re: [scots-l] Re: scots-l-digest V1 #420 unsubscribe

Hello folks, when signing off the lists, please specify if you're on the regular list or the digest, and also what email address(es) you're signed onto the list(s) with. I've had problems with subscribers who have been on the list with 4 different addresses, and get upset because

Re: [scots-l] Tuning and Electronic Tuners

On Wed, 1 Aug 2001, Kate Dunlay or David Greenberg wrote: > >An electronic tuner is measuring the fundamental but > >what your ear is "measuring", hearing, on a "note" on an acoustic > >instrument is much more. > > I prefer a tuning fork (I almost wrote pitch fork by mistake!). I

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