[scots-l] Burrolling, as we posh fowk call it

Birlin This subject has provoked the biggest thread I've seen on Scots-L, so it's obviously extremely important. Of course I'm completely eaten up with jealousy because I'm not a fiddler. I don't even know whether I birl - how can you tell? [1]. I shouldn't think it's physically possible on the

Re: [scots-l] Burrolling, as we posh fowk call it

Nigel Gatherer wrote: Birlin This subject has provoked the biggest thread I've seen on Scots-L, so it's obviously extremely important. Of course I'm completely eaten up with jealousy because I'm not a fiddler. I don't even know whether I birl - how can you tell? [1]. I shouldn't think

Re: [scots-l] Burrolling

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I personally never have called them "birls", always "cuts". I've heard cuttings on the mando before. It can be done! :-) I am unsure, still, about the subtle differences between birls and triplets as translated to fingerstyle or plectrum instruments. Tony

[scots-l] Re: Skinner

Toby wrote: I believe Skinner probably would have been fine with that. I highly doubt Skinner was writing tunes with Highlanders in mind. By the time he started writing tunes, the Highlands has already been cleared, and the people who would appreciate the sort of driving strathspeys

Re: [scots-l] Burrolling, as we posh fowk call it

Nigel wrote: This subject has provoked the biggest thread I've seen on Scots-L, so it's obviously extremely important. Of course I'm completely eaten up with jealousy because I'm not a fiddler. I don't even know whether I birl - how can you tell? [1]. I shouldn't think it's physically

[scots-l] Rocking Step

Talking of Scott Skinner, someone asked me for his tune "Scott Skinner's Rockin' Step"... The term is almost certainly a dancing reference, although in 18th century Scotland a "Rocking" was the Lowland equivalent of the Highland "ceilidh". That's interesting. I had always just assumed that the

[scots-l] TORONTO-AREA SONG NIGHT

Gabh òran/Abair amhráin!/ Give a Song! Cumann/Comann na Maoile Dé hAoine/Di-hAoine 23 Feabhra/Gearran Friday, Feb. 23, 7:30 p.m. Emerald Isle Seniors’ Society 824 Danforth Avenue in TORONTO East of Pape Subway Station an informal evening of Irish and Scottish Gaelic songs, stories and

Re: Ian's enquiry (was: [scots-l] Official scots-l site)

At 23:43 -0500 15/2/01, Ian Adkins wrote: A'm sorrie tae hear tha Erica, whit were ye daen drinkin pesticides? A howp yer better soon sae ye kin get back oot intae th sunshine amang th gum trees. Whit's th prognosis gin ye dinna mind me spierin o it? Hello Ian, I've been ill for 15 years, and

[scots-l] Birlin' ( continued )

Toby Rider wrote: I think his stratshpeys had too many different notes and not enough repetition to be good step dance strathspeys. :-) The very same qualities that make them good tunes to listen to, make them not as powerful for step dancing. I believe Skinner probably would have been

[scots-l] The Unfortunate Rake

I need some help. After spending many hours in the library and countless more searching the internet, I've decided to ask my friends for help. I have finished writing a book of "familiar melodies" for beginning players of the clarsach. I have one tune that is giving me trouble, and I am just

Re: [scots-l] The Unfortunate Rake

That tune is known in America as "the Streets of Laredo". Someone here claims copyright to those words and the familiar melody (also used for the Bard of Armagh) and that someone will not allow me permission to use it if I sell the book outside of the U.S., which as a book for the CLARSACH I most