Julia wrote:
>>3) Plaid is bad >>>I've been told the weave was different in each valley so that when a frozen corpse was found on the hills in the spring the body could be identified. But being a canny lass, you thought "pull the other one!" >>>Even then the Duke's piper was / is the only one to whom it was / is relevant, and the first one of those to >>>use the whole rig out - blackcock feather and all was Jack Armstrong, piper from 1949-78, although James Hall >>>came close in the late C19 >>>Traditional? I don't think so. >>>Expedient on occasion today? Probably. Enough folk have got them that I needn't bother. Phew Used to cover >>>musical deficiency? You may so, I couldn't possibly comment! >>>Julia Me meself persunelly, I like the traditional look of the "Birkenstock Band" on the cover of the October 2003 NPS Newsletter. ;-) Cheers, Paul Gretton -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
