In a message dated 3/30/03 9:09:14 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So the answer would be everything they would normally play when
their instruments are dry :-)
Oh, my dear Toby. :-) This is precisely why we use the term /damp/, not /dampen/, just to try and cut down on th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated 3/28/03 5:16:57 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What would the repertoire of Scottish tunes that could be played
effectively on an undamped wire harp be composed of?
I would think that almost no tunes could be played effectiv
In a message dated 3/28/03 5:16:57 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What would the repertoire of Scottish tunes that could be played
effectively on an undamped wire harp be composed of?
Really old Scottish tunes. At least that's my hunch. Undamped on wire is undamped in the e
Jack Campin wrote:
he thought that the harmony arose from *successive*
tones in the music - each note harmonizing with its predecessors, and
the sequence of intervals being chosen to make this work, which implies
a preference for melodic intervals wider than a tone.
I don't know very much about ha
I happened to come across Benjamin Franklin's "Dissertation upon
Scottish Music" this week - grandiloquent title for one page of
speculations that reads like a Usenet post. I'd expected to find
it on the web (e.g. as part of a collected Franklin site) but can't;
I might type it in next week if it
