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Hi folks, this isn't strictly harp, as in clairseach, but it is wire strung, and sounds incredible. it is a Russian folk instrument called a GUSLI, related to...
Hi folks, this isn't strictly harp, as in clairseach, but it is wire strung, and sounds incredible. it is a Russian folk instrument called a GUSLI, related to...
another wire harp clip on YouTube, this one by Brendan Ring. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gUabcwURMU Brendan, could you teach me this tune, the next time...
Paul, you might contact Michael King, he is very knowledgeable about Kanteles and related instruments, I am sure he would know about this. www.michaeljking.com...
Dear Paul, Brendan is using DJ's version of Mrs Costello, a setting which is one of a number of his which he hasn't completely successfully restructured out of...
Dear Alasdair Keith?, not sure I am clear on what the question is, I am still trying to cope with DJ as those initials to me suggest David Johnson but I assume...
... Hi Alasdair - I assume you are referring to the second Mrs Maxwell air, no. 102 (I'm also assuming that "DJ" is Donal J. O'Sullivan). I can see what...
Dear Bonnie, An interesting defence of the metrical quirkiness found in the sources. Of course, from a listening point of view, we have modern ears....
A cháirdean, I've just uploaded a vocal version I've constructed from the melody of Edward Corcoran. It's in the key of D one flat firstly because it would...
A chàirdean, For those of you with an interest in liturgical material, I've uploaded my interpretation of the Breton notation for the Pentecost Sunday introit...
Alasdair these are very interesting and useful but a mp3 would be much better for those of us with 'literacy issues' to get a grip on what you are thinking....
Dear Simon, How true but there is more than one kind of illiteracy: my computering ability is tested enough posting jpeg files! Beannachdan, Alasdair...
A chàirdean, I've uploaded a version of Mrs O'Connor (118). DJ's version kept the same note durations as the original and only source of this tune, Lee. ...
A chàirdean, I've just uploaded a fresh copy of Mrs O'Connor (118) as I spotted some mistranscription in bars 2 & 3. Nach gabh sibh mo lethsgeul. Lee's...
A chàirdean, I've uploaded the other Mrs O'Connor (124) to the files section of the group. This is is a song for which the lyric survives for a complete once...
A chàirdean, The latest file I've uploaded to the group is my rebarring of Carolan's Marbhna for Owen O'Rourke, the Prince of Breffni in Carolan's day. The...
A chàirdean, I've decided to upload a vocal edition of Tobias Peyton. The basis is the Forde version presented by DJ but with certain changes made. In order...
A chàirdean, Another upload of Tobias Peyton has gone into the file section of the group but this time based on the Bunting notation in MS29, a version which,...
A chàirdean, I've uploaded into the files section the song Fáilte go Kingsland (43), known to Bunting as Planxty Kingsland. Bunting's version of the tune in...
A chàirdean, I've recently gained access to a copy of item 17 in MS37. The pages contain lists of terms which eventually made it into Bunting's General...
Thank you for accepting me into this group. My first wire-strung harp will be arriving in less than two weeks and I am very anxious to begin learning this...
Dear Simon, A fada on the O is a clear indication that the MH is not pronounced as U/W but the entry on p32 of the 1840 Introduction doesn't have a fada. The...
... I am on the southern Oregon Coast in North Bend. Beautiful! Cold, rainy, windy with lots of beaches, beautiful trees. It's a great old town near the...
Beautiful area of the world! I'll do some poking around for you. There is bound to be someone at the U of O Eugene that could help you out. Chad To:...
I remember driving through North Bend a few years ago, and that interesting bridge. Windy, I'll say. We stopped at a restaurant somewhere on the coast and...
