Jack Campin wrote:
I'll have a look, printed it out - but Barfly is so frustrating on my Mac! I can't use anything except 'beep' and it plays in a way which bears no resemblance to your demosntration - all the note lengths are wrong and the result doesn't even sound like a tune. More like some very long horrible ringtone.Oswald himself specialised in guittar (English guittar) which has a sound like a very quiet harp or lyre. It's also a very easy instrument to write music with, as it transposes and the tuning forms two major chords (CEGceg, GBDgbd or AC#Eac#e normally).
Here's the tune, in the vocal version from the Scots Musical Museum - I don't have Oswald's original handy. How easy is it on the guitar?
The tune looks OK on guittar, but I'll report back after trying it. The speed of the ABC would be a little fast for guittar. I would transpose the entire thing to A instead of G (my guittar transposes A, Bflat, B, or C and that's it - Irish ones transposed G, Gsharp, A, Bflat)
since I have not yet made a capo I just play in A.
But Chris Egerton, a luthier in London, has just made me an entire set of bone string pins and it's sounding very good as a result!
David
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