Nigel Gatherer wrote:
>
> Birlin
>
> This subject has provoked the biggest thread I've seen on Scots-L, so it's
> obviously extremely important. Of course I'm completely eaten up with
> jealousy because I'm not a fiddler. I don't even know whether I birl - how
> can you tell? [1]. I shouldn't think it's physically possible on the
> mandolin, but what about the whistle? I expect my proportion would be
> 1:1:27 (something to ask at your next session: "Hi there, what's your
> proportion in a birl?").
I personally never have called them "birls", always "cuts". I've heard
cuttings on the mando before. It can be done! :-)
Toby
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