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
In a message dated 1/29/03 6:51:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Wow, you're serious that you couldn't find any Scottish players at the
Grandfather mountain games?
We hide out in the ski lodges and have ceilidhs. Honestly! Hook up with ACGA at the Gaelic tent and we'll
In a message dated 1/19/03 5:34:19 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We certainly know that harpers accompanied warriors/chieftains into
battle, but we don't have a very clear idea of the protocol of battle.
The more I read about this, the more I get the impression of a
In a message dated 1/17/03 11:50:04 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Still this is interesting and surprising info. on the requirements of
your organization. Can you elaborate on how these requirements were
developed?
My understanding is we looked at the Fiddle competition
In a message dated 1/14/03 7:10:54 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The
tempo is determined by the dance, and you really have to
honor it. If there are no dancers, you are a lot freer to
play with the tempo, vary it, etc
I'm heartened to read this! As a clarsair, I don't find
It's a wonderful book! One of my "top of the pile" collections. (As in, I have a huge pile of music here and Charlie's book is always near the top.)
I bought it a couple of years ago at a Highland Festival in the States. Besides recognizing Charlie's name, I was attracted to it because of the
In a message dated 1/9/03 11:14:57 AM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does this book have an ISBN number? Thanks.
ISBN 0 946868 21 2
The Hardie Press (1997)
17 Harrison Gardens
Edinburgh EH11 1SE
--Cynthia Cathcart
http://www.cynthiacathcart.net/
In a message dated 4/14/02 9:55:56 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying to find Scottish
tunes which use as few notes, for use in teaching complete beginners.
We've been discussing "Come Give Me Your Hand" on the wire harp list. It's ALMOST pentatonic, but I think it
In a message dated 4/14/02 4:16:02 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Neither do I... :-)
Fancy that! All this time I imagined you with the fiddle, but goodness, I know better than that, don't I? Dear me, wake up, Cynthia.
I will start scouting tunes for you! Anything to
Hello friends,
I'm preparing the bibliography for my new book (I've been a very busy girl),
and need to include Kerr's Merry Melodies, but there is no date to be seen
anywhere in the books. Anyone know when these were published?
Thanks much!
--Cynthia Cathcart
http://www.cynthiacathcart.net/
One of my favorite albums is called Schiehallion by a group called North Sea
Gas. No parodies, though. All pretty straight ahead traditional tunes. I
picked it up at Blackfriars the first time I visited Edinburgh.
Perhaps these guys did some other work that was parody?
--Cynthia Cathcart
Speaking of laments, I am putting the Elegy for Rob Roy MacGregor in the book
I'm currently working on. It's from the Angus Fraser collection, as published
by Taigh na Teud. In the notes for this piece, reference is made to the words
being found in the collection of Gaelic poetry songs by A
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Many laments don't really contain much anger
I don't know about that, David. I don't mean to challenge you, it's just that
my experience is different from yours. I find that most laments do indeed
have at least one phrase that expresses anger. Usually at the
Hello friends,
I sure would like to talk about music again, and try and move my mind away
from the events of the last few days.
Of course, that may not be possible.
I read in the Washington Post today something about the stages of grief.
First is disbelief, then rage, then sadness and
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What would YOU put on that list?
This is a clarsair speaking, remember, so don't know how this would work for
your gang, Nigel, but I'm using Mrs. Crawford of Donside with my students. It
plays very nicely and hauntingly if done slowly, so I do not have them play
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What's the RR website?
I get to it via the ABC index, which is at a ridiculously long address:
http://www.gre.ac.uk/~c.walshaw/abc/index/wwabc.html
It takes awhile to load, so be careful if you go there! No graphics or
anything, but tons of information. Of course
Hello all,
I am writing out my arrangement of this lovely WALTZ ( not the jig by the
same name). I learned it from my Grandfather long time back, and I seem to
remember he called it the Mist Covered Mountains of Home. At any rate, I
searched through the abc-index online and the melody I
I second David's comment on tuning a clarsach. It certainly helps to have a
tuner if you have 30 some strings to get in tune. It truly does save time,
and I'd rather be playing than tuning endlessly. However, I do still tweak a
few strings after I use the tuner. Some tones just won't sound
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
For harp you would assume that tuning using an advanced electronic tuner
set to the same kind of temperament used for virginals,
I gotta get one of those tuners! What I do on my clarsach is tune with the
aid of a tuner (it saves time) and then I play a couple of
Speaking of old books, I found one in my mother's house. (She died recently,
quite tragically, in an auto accident, so if you think my book is a
pointless, useless piece of garbage, please don't tell me.)
Mom left nothing but trash, mostly, but this one book crawled out from under
a pile of
In a message dated 7/7/01 10:01:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
What about Shetland tunes?
Those are allowed in SHSA competitions. A different style of playing than a
lowland air, naturally.
Your advice to yourself to listen to recordings is the best advice. Also try
Any opinions on whether I could justify the inclusion of Northumbrian
tunes
into a competition setting?
Hi Janice,
I have a friend from Northumberland, and I asked his opinion about playing a
Northumbrian pipe tune in competition. He said, Either I'm English or
Scottish, it just depends
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do you have to play the music in a
Scottish manner?
Absolutely. Scottish Style is one of the Evaluation Criteria. As Jo
Morrison (Chair of the Competition Committee for the SHSA) wrote regarding a
Master harper's qualifications in the most recent Kilt Harp:
A
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am trying to find the lyics for the Pipe Tune for
Funerals and Memorials in Scotland called "Going
Home".
Hi,
They're in my book for the wire-strung harp! It took a LOT of time to find
them, and I'll tell you, if this were a harpers list I'd just ask you to wait
In a message dated 3/11/01 3:57:12 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone know where I can get a so-called 'celtic' font
Dover Publishers has a disc of celtic fonts, but then that's for pay, isn't
it?
Did you hear that they are actually developing a WEBSITE!?!
In a message dated 2/23/01 1:21:03 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Indeed. Maybe the best idea is to call it "The Bard of Omagh", and
note in the text that it's a variant of the earlier tune "The
Unfortunate Rake" and the later American ballad "The Streets
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
In a message dated 1/16/01 3:09:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
In Maryland, at least, they are beautifully indexed, so you're not hunting
needles in haystacks looking for reference to your folks.
I'm in Maryland, but my Grandfather lived most of his life in
In a message dated 1/16/01 4:28:39 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
He may have thought, in an
idealised moment, that slavery was wrong, but he obviously was prepared to
accept it and engage himself in its practices had his poems failed to sell.
Reminds one of Thomas
Just two cents: wire harpers do this quite handily. We just roll our
fingernails on the strings...one-two-THREE.
For what it's worth, I think I do it on the beat. Sometimes it's hard to
tell, if I'm playing fast enough!
--Cynthia Cathcart
Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Gaelic speaking Scottish slaves, children rounded up by the burgesses of
the port towns and shipped to the Americas for cash.
This is really interesting to me. My grandfather Ogilvie always told me his
grandparents came to this country as indentured servants or
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But is it CathCAART or or CathCAIRT?...You're going to be in for an
interesting time getting USAns to do Scots vowels.
HA! Well, I must tell you, we got into Edinburgh for our first visit to
Scotland in 1998, checked into our bed breakfast, and our host says,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's easy to get names mixed up when there are too many which sound the
same.
I wish I had a nickle for everytime someone has called me "Mrs. Cartwright".
Not even close.
The nicest thing about visiting Scotland is people know my name!
--Cynthia CATHCART
Posted to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
First "Rory Dall" is said to mean "Blind Rory", and was a generic term
for a blind Harper and doesn't point to anyone in particular.
For the harpers I know (including folks like Alison Bill), we recognize two
Rory Dall's: The Irish one (O'Cathain) and the Scottish
In a message dated 12/18/00 10:23:43 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Fortunately there aren't many songs with Inverness in them.
Hmm. I never thought about this before. But I happen to have two tunes in my
repertoire that have Inverness in the title: The Cross of
I was at the Library of Congress yesterday searching for song histories. I
found a book of reproductions of autograph manuscripts. Just letters,
inscriptions, notes, things like that, from people like the Venerable Bede,
John Locke, Geoffrey Chaucer, and so on. The contents were completely off
Hi Rob,
Well, I didn't think I was uncovering anything dark and secret: I had heard
of the quote, but never was CONVINCED it was real, and I don't think I've
ever actually heard it in it's entirety before.
But seeing it in the Bard's own hand! That was a thrill! And now I KNOW what
he said,
In a message dated 12/13/00 3:31:12 PM Eastern Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I have a earlier tune that the one we're familiar with...did you know
that?
I've found three different tunes. Two are in the Scots Musical Museum, (Vol.
I and Vol. V) and then there is the other one
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Not to mention,
the pickup notes usually make sure the bar lines don't line up exactly
anyway
That's true, but in the book I've been working on, I adjusted the placement
of the pick-up notes so that my bars DO line up exactly. It's a book for
beginning players,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm happy as a tuned carp.
What??!
Oops. That should have been an h. Happy as a tuned Harp. (But you CAN
tune-a-fish, right?) Ok, I'm embarrassed. Gosh, I raise my head to submit a
post after weeks of silence, and what do I domake a typo.
sorry
I think it only comes for PC, but I'm using Music Publisher for my book (soon
to be published!) and it's worked great. It's easy to use, even though I've
LOST the manual! Plus it turns my scores into PCX format so I can pop it into
my book (which is in PageMaker) and I'm happy as a tuned harp.
Regarding the "backwards playing" of the bagpipes, Jack wrote:
It used to be very common. I've come across a comment from a 19th
century pipe major that it was always a good idea to have a few left-
handed pipers on the team so that, for special occasions, you could
set up columns of two
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Very different from the lever harp, and so far it's proving rather
partner-unfriendly
My husband Eric, also a professional musician, plays the Saxophones, and as I
got more more involved in playing the wire strung harp I wanted to be able
to play with him. I
In a message dated 9/15/00 2:20:38 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you do have broken harp I would be very interested in buying it and
studying the way it's made, perhaps with a view to using the arm and
crossbar and making a complete new soundbox.
Hi David,
I've
In a message dated 9/22/00 2:41:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There are none in Scotland?? Aren't wire harps the traditional
harps of the Gaels that date back to antiquity?
David said he's never SEEN one there, not that there aren't any! And you're
quite right
Hello,
Well, this could be lively! I'm afraid I must respectfully disagree with you
David!
To begin with, certainly the wire harp came later than the earliest harps,
such as the horse hair harp, because the invention of the wire harp had to
wait until people had figured out how to make the
I hope that you didn't loose too much money on that harp! How
sensitive are harps to the age, type and finish of the wood used in
them?
Hi Toby, Sorry for the long delay in answering your question.
I lost no money on the broken harp, as I inherited it from my stepfather. It
was my very
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