On 5 Nov 2010, Gibbons, John wrote: > Here's a working draft of a set based on Crawhall.
I think I'm heading in some of the same directions, since I can't sleep. Nothing publishable yet. > It needs some editing and probably some bits throwing away. > But it's too late to find out what it plays like. Too early in my case. > What lost song does his title come from I wonder? Could playing the open-ended pipes be described as "wagging one's hand", I wonder? That conjures up an interesting picture of the returning piper being berated by irate spouse for indulging in too much.....well, choose your own vice. Otherwise is that phrase a mis-hearing of a particularly impenetrable dialect? (Which would add to the theory that Crawhall was noting it down in the field) Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
