>> Another pet hate is "Da Slockit Light" which I regard as a lament. When
>> our fiddlers get hold of it it becomes a jolly canter. I don't know how
>> much of that is simply my feeling, or if others just think I'm being
>> pernickety.
> But "Da Slocket Light" *IS* a lament and should be played as one!

But the way Tom Anderson himself played it was faster than any other
performance I've heard.

I prefer it slow too; bugger the composer's intentions.  But unlike
Nigel I prefer "The Burning of the Piper's Hut" as a flat-out reel.

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