Is anybody except Nigerian scam artists still reading this?... Kerr's collections have pages and pages of reels and strathspeys in similar key signatures printed alternately, this being handy for some kinds of dance that were popular at the time.
Whatever those dances were they must have been VERY popular in the 1880s for this arrangement to make up such a high proportion of the books. And they sure aren't popular now. What were they? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack Campin: 11 Third Street, Newtongrange, Midlothian EH22 4PU; 0131 6604760 <http://www.purr.demon.co.uk/jack> * food intolerance data & recipes, Mac logic fonts, Scots traditional music files and CD-ROMs of Scottish music. ----> off-list mail to "j-c" rather than "scots-l" at this site, please <---- Posted to Scots-L - The Traditional Scottish Music & Culture List - To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
