On Fri, 28 Mar 2003 16:16:47 + (GMT)
Nigel Gatherer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2. What the connects the titles of these old Scottish reels: John of
Badenyon; Och a Chiallain; Cuir sa Chiste Mhoir Mi.
Oh oh oh... I know this one. :-) In the Cape Breton tradition they are commonly known
as
I have been asked to help gather some background information on a tune - Inis Oirr
and its composer, Thomas Walsh. Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Wendy
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Spring Dance
Saturday, April 6, 2002
7:30 PM - 12:00 AM
Canadian American Club
202 Arlington Street
Watertown, MA USA
Featuring Recording Artists:
Jerry Holland, Violinist
Doug MacPhee, Pianist
John Campbell, Violinist
Step Dancing by Four On The Floor
Norman MacEachern,
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 06:06, Nigel Gatherer wrote:
STRATHSPEYS
Jeffrey Friedman says they dance Strathspeys at 60. I'm not a dancer,
but musically that seems VERY slow to me [3]. JMM states the limits as
between 160 and 188. That upper limit seems fast to me, but nothing
compared to
On Wednesday 06 February 2002 20:26, Toby Rider wrote:
Does anyone know the name of the pipe strathspey that Brendan plays
right after Dusky Meadow, but before the John Campbell reel in this set:
http://barra.tullochgorm.com/mp3s/scottish/MabouRidgeSet.mp3
I can't put a name to
On Monday 28 January 2002 23:29, Toby Rider wrote:
Does anyone know where I can buy a copy of Jerry Holland's new book
domestically? The last time I ordered from Paul Cranford, it took about
3 months for it to arrive. Thanks!
Toby
Toby, why don't you contact Kate Spencer at Maple Leaf
On Tuesday 16 October 2001 12:16, Christopher Rennie wrote:
Hello All,
Many thanks, Toby, for the info. I am unfamiliar with
Angus as a performer (obviously), but he is worth
giving look on your recommendation.
A little story John Campbell related to his Ceilidh Trail students this past
Jack Daniel's Reel is in the second Jerry Holland Collection.
On Monday 27 August 2001 07:59, BD Renaudin wrote:
Hi,
I'm looking for these S Brechin and H Wrigley reels recorded by Seelyho :
Sometimes it doesn't work/The Lucky Cap/The Potato tree/
Also :
Jack Daniel's (by JM
On Thursday 02 August 2001 00:09, you wrote:
The worst culprits seem to be fiddlers, who often have the attitude
Damded if I'll tune to an accordion. (Since I'm also a fiddler, I
can get away with such an observation. ;-)
Ha ha.. I guess I should have added, if I'm playing in a group I
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 13:46, you wrote:
In an e-mail whose subject was What makes a style Scottish?
Nigel Gatherer wrote:
I was also fascinated by Alexander's statement: The ear's perception
of a note can vary so greatly that the literature uses two terms;
frequency...and pitch...and
On Wednesday 01 August 2001 20:38, you wrote:
An electronic tuner is measuring the fundamental but
what your ear is measuring, hearing, on a note on an acoustic
instrument is much more.
I prefer a tuning fork (I almost wrote pitch fork by mistake!). Does the
ringing of the fork include
On Wednesday 11 July 2001 15:40, you wrote:
Wendy Galovich wrote:
Please don't be offended but I have concluded that you haven't read or
do not understand the two quotes which I included in my last e-mail.
Um.. Actually I did read and understand them, and my own conclusion is that
the main
On Tuesday 10 July 2001 13:54, you wrote:
Wendy Galovich wrote:
This is obvious if you're going to break the tempered scale down to that
degree.
Comment:
1. What is obvious?
..U.. the statements you made in the paragraph to which I was responding:
that in a literal sense
On Sat, 10 Mar 2001, David Kilpatrick wrote:
This is an appeal to anyone with internet know-how.
In the last few days, blank subjectless message from many different people whose
email
addresses start 'david@' have been arriving. Now I find that other people (same
criterion)
have been
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, SUZANNE MACDONALD wrote:
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 12:33:01 -0400
From: SUZANNE MACDONALD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [scots-l] Birlin'
Toby Ryder wrote:
Is that surprising? I find it to be not in the
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, SUZANNE MACDONALD wrote:
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 22:29:25 -0400
From: SUZANNE MACDONALD [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [scots-l] Birlin'
Wendy Galovich wrote:
However it seems to me that at the dances and concerts
At 06:39 AM 10/11/2000 -0400, you wrote:
Jeff (suffering the recent slings of an egomaniacle pompous bossy fiddler)
Friedman
Ah, I know the one you mean.. one of our *local* experts :-)
Wendy
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At 07:26 PM 10/6/2000 -0700, you wrote:
I'm seeking advice from fiddlers: I've heard that all "cuts" should begin
on a down bow. Is that good advice and is it always true? When inserting
a cut I do seem to think it is easiest to begin on a down bow. However...
I'm playing around with bowings
At 05:26 PM 9/27/2000 +0100, "David Kilpatrick" wrote:
We're not sure about the pitch of voices in the past; one of your problems
with singing anything from 18th c Scottish MS is that the intended
pitch is
at least one tone, maybe 1.5 tones, lower than the notation makes it
appear,
due to the
At 06:29 PM 9/14/2000 EDT, you wrote:
Wood type is crucial for the sound and strength of a clarsach. It has to
be a
hard wood. My harps (that aren't broken) are made out of Scottish Sycamore
and Maine Beech and Maple.
Maine Beech.. that wouldn't have been out of Jay Witcher's shop,
At 11:43 AM 9/12/2000 -0700, "Toby A. Rider wrote:
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Jeffrey Friedman wrote:
Regarding the your comments on the Wedding Reels: I've just encountered a
couple of CD's by a fiddler named John Campbell. I guess you might say he
has an impressive style. I'm being very
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