[scots-l] learning long tunes

2001-03-07 Thread Jack Campin
: Another learning problem unique to Scottish tunes. Four part pipe : tunes need a special type of learning that seems unique to me. How do piping instructors teach these? Many traditions use vocables for transmitting and memorising tunes. In pipes teaching this cantairacht(sp?) system is

Re: [scots-l] learning long tunes

2001-03-07 Thread AIKUNTZ
In a message dated 01-03-07 08:07:44 EST, you write: Incidentally, does anyone know of any record of that tune in between 1740 and when O'Neill published a slightly simplified version of it? That's a long time for a tune to survive in oral tradition, under the same title, without anybody