>> ...does anyone have anyone good recommendations of recordings of >> Scottish "mouthie" players? > I should have added George Current to the list. I don't know if he's > recorded anything, but he has played around the Edinburgh scene and > has been persuaded by ALP to teach an evening class.
He hasn't made any recordings. But George and I have been a fixture at Sandy Bell's on Sunday afternoons for a few years, so if you're in Edinburgh it's easy enough to find him. Another unrecorded player is Eddie Wallace from Glasgow. He usually plays a multiple-diatonic moothie, but whereas most people with those have only six on the spindle (two flats to three sharps) he has twelve for all keys. It needs a different technique; most moothie players move the instrument from side to side, but in his case the instrument is nearly as heavy as his head, so he leaves it still and nods like a Muppet. (I've never yet seen him play in D flat or F sharp). He's good at Continental-style dance music, things you'd expect to hear from a musette accordionist. He's in the background in one of the photos on my website, though only with a few individual moothies. =================== <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack/> =================== Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
