Jonathan Hill wrote:
Well there's one for those of us who can't be a*s*d to go twenty
miles for a tune!
How are things in the Black Isle? DO you have to go 20 miles for a tune?
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Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland
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Linda Rankin asked:
...I received the following email from someone...
I have the music to a lovely tune John Roy Lyall
recorded by Sandy MacIntyre I am wondering if anyone knows the
composer and if anyone knows who John Roy was...
According to Ceol Na Fidhle Vol.1, the composer was
Janice asked about naming tunes after folk, particularly in the case of
Scott Skinner. Here's my ramble on it:
Skinner forms part of the link between the 18th century
fiddler/composers, such as the Gows, and the beginning of mass-produced
recorded music. In the 18th C, a fiddler wishing to make
David Kilpatrick wrote:
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
I've played three great mandolins in my life:
Sam's Red Diamond, Mike's Nelson #3, and a friend's Vanden.
To me most mandos sound pretty good...
The mandolin list sometimes gets like a bunch of men showing off their
expensive toys,
I've tried to get off this list without success (I'm receiving 50 emails a
day from various lists), so maybe this will help:
Rob
A teacher asks her class to use the word 'contagious'.
Roland the class swot, gets up and says, Last year I got the measles
and
my Mum said it was contagious.
Following Nigel's ramble on the naming of tunes after folk:
The practice of naming tunes after people to curry favour or say thanks for
services rendered is a long an honourable tradition which includes the
planxties and fancies of earlier periods. I saw a tv prog once about
flamenco which
