Philip Whittaker wrote: > Did you know that Chris Stout wrote the tune Hamnataing to go with > this tune...
As soon as I read the above I remembered that you'd already said that in a previous post. Now I'll have to learn "Hamnataing" - and how to pronounce it! > Let me know if you need the music as Sibelius 6 file. That would be useful, Philip - thanks. > Isn't Hut on Staffin Siland a great mandolin tune! It certainly is. I've started playing with a good guitar player up at Loch Tummel, and that one always hits the mark. At my Wednesday session every time I shout out "Staten Island!" at least one person breaks into "The Hut On Staffin Island" - or, as you call it "Hut on Staffin Siland." Re "Staten Island" - Jack Campin once told us "...Staten Island (a.k.a. Burns' Hornpipe). Now *maybe* this relates to the one in New York harbour, but there is another Staten Island near Cape Horn that might have been well-known to sailors..." There has also been mention of a confusion with the State Iskands. Someone else on the Tradtunes list said "I had always thought that Staten Island, at least in sea music, referred to the Staten Island off the coast of Argentina. Sailors sang about it because when they saw it, it mean they had rounded the horn and were heading for home..." I have also heard that there's another Staten Island in the Arctic, but I haven't confirmed this. Bayard linked the tune with "The Athole Volunteers March" by Niel Gow - which I can see, just - but I tend not to take much notice of any Bayard references. -- Nigel Gatherer, Crieff, Scotland [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.argonet.co.uk/users/gatherer/ Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
