Dear Richard, A corn dolly is something to do with the harvest that is made with corn stalks. All sorts of original and traditional designs have been made either as fertility symbols or to be worn on the lapel to show you were available for hire as a farm worker or were hired. The term 'cut and dry' obviously had more meaning in the 18th Cent or earlier when the tune was written and named but it just simply refers to the corn stalks and what they were used to make, apart from musical instruments blown in the mouth with holes burnt into the stalk and the end chewed to make a double beating reed like a direct forerunner to our own NSP chanter with its parallel bore. Cheers, Colin R
-----Original Message----- From: Richard York <rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk> To: NSP group <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 9:37 Subject: [NSP] Cut & Dry Dolly To reveal myself as a Softie Southerner who probably pronounces Bath as Barth and thinks there are only wolves & polar bears North of Watford ;-) ...please, what is a "Cut & Dry Dolly"? It suggests corn stooks to me, but this might be the wrong tree entirely. Thanks, Richard. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html ________________________________________________________________________ AOL Email goes Mobile! You can now read your AOL Emails whilst on the move. Sign up for a free AOL Email account with unlimited storage today.
