Alexander Mac Donald wrote:
> Re Nigel Gatherer's comments on Skinner's new CD
> I share your opinions completely on Skinner as a composer, " a huge
> admirer" and on his playing, " not the biggest fan of his playing" and
> that it "seems exaggerated, showy"...
At Stuart Eydmann's talk at Fiddle
Alexander Mac Donald:
The subject of tempo is always an interesting one. In "The Scottish
Violinist" Skinner lists the tempo for at least three different reels as
136. Compared with every other reference I have found, that is
That is interesting. In the front of _Harp and Claymore_ Skinner g
Re Nigel Gatherer's comments on Skinner's new CD
I share your opinions completely on Skinner as a composer, " a huge
admirer" and on his playing, " not the biggest fan of his playing" and
that it "seems exaggerated, showy". I have a copy of a Skinner [Topic]
LP issued in 1975 called "Classics of
> David learned a lot of Mary
> MacDonald tunes from old tapes, some of which were too slow. Doug
> MacPhee has often had to remind him to speed up a bit because she
> didn't play things that slow. But it's hard to change your
> ingrained impression when you've listened to something over and ov
Can't you mathematically 'correct for' poor cylinder speed control to get an
idea of what speed he was playing at?.
Seems that if you know the info about the apparent pitch and the apparent
tempo, and one makes a few basics assumptions: such as the tune should be
played in the key of ?? and the st
d with today's technology would still sound fast. At least that's
the sense I get from my reading about him and his playing.
John
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>From: Kate Dunlay or David Greenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [scots-l] Re: J. Scott Skinners new CD
Kate Dunlay wrote:
> >I like the album as a historical document, to hear how Skinner
> >played, what he played, what speed he played at, and so on.
> ...You can't actually tell at what speed Skinner played from the LP
> because, although it may have faithfully reproduced the cylinders
> are what
It wouldn't take too much for them to digitally get the recordings down
to the correct speed by using reference notes and comparing them their
pitch if it was correctly tuned. I hope they did that on these new
reissue recordings.
>>I like the album as a historical document, to hear how Skinner
I like the album as a historical document, to hear how Skinner played,
what he played, what speed he played at, and so on.
I have that old vinyl LP also. You can't actually tell at what speed
Skinner played from the LP because, although it may have faithfully
reproduced the cylinders are what
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone mentioned the new CD of J. Scott Skinners original
> recordings which were recorded by him between 1905 & 1922?
I haven't heard the CD, but the majority of it will have been issued
before in vinyl format, which I have. I expect that the tracks have
been di
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