I didn't understand what AR meant with his tomato, either - if he meant un unstressed downbeat (to-) then I'm mystified, as Rants have a stress on the downbeat in my experience. The stress of the word tomato is on the -ma-, whether you say tomaato or tomayto.
Mason's Apron is Scottish, the earliest version is called the Islay Reel IIRC. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
