Good points. "When love breaks down" by Prefab Sprout has already been recorded
by Her Who Shall Not Be Named, has it not?
Not to mention "Stranger on the shore" by, er, someone else.
>Sax had only ever been used to play orchestral music, it's
>original purpose
>as a crossover between brass and
On 2 Oct 2008, Gibbons, John wrote:
> It also stretched higher up the social scale than some people like to
> think. The picture (of Dixon himself?) in the Dixon MS is of a
> gentleman in a rather snazzy coat.
William Dixon was a churchwarden of his (admittedly very rural)
parish. One of his ma
the magazine a few years
back.
Literate sources can only notate the version they 'know',
and were often (Vickers especially) not all that literate either.
John
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Seems to me that as the pipes have been around for about 500 years in their
present form, but much of the repetoire is from the last 200-250 years and
is probably a sample of popular tunes of the day that you could argue that
the "traditional" tunes at least of the pipes have already been lost.
> > Perhaps syncopated jiggery is a virus like the squirrel pox that
grays
> > carry but kills reds?
>
> Tim
Exactly! There was a major influx of grey squirrel tunes in the
Wideopen and Wallington areas in the mid 20th Century. These quickly
spread throughout Northumberlan
Perhaps syncopated jiggery is a virus like the squirrel pox that grays
carry but kills reds?
Tim
This made me wonder what 'Pan-Celtic "syncopated jiggery"' is,
and what the
nature of the threat.
Sounds more like fun than a threat in the admittedly unlikely event of you
asking me
>This made me wonder what 'Pan-Celtic "syncopated jiggery"' is,
>and what the
>nature of the threat.
Sounds more like fun than a threat in the admittedly unlikely event of you
asking me
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