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Hi Joe, there's no need to try so hard to convince us. We pretty much all already know what we're talking about here. We own and play on measured copies of...
Dear Joe, Apologies for not getting back to you sooner. <I disagree your problem is wanting then to have keys.> I disagree that I have a problem. I also...
Dear Joe, To say that the temperament ideally employed as a standard on today's keyboards 'is called the 12 tone Equal Temperament Scale' is not strictly...
Greetings list- My work at the living history museum has brought me back yet again to Child Ballads. For our purposes in the harp world, I was wondering if...
... that is on today's piano is a new-comer and is not suitable for talking about Ancient Gaelic Harp Muisc. Joe, As you've probably gathered by now we have on...
Simon I do not know if we are speaking the same musical language yet. Not until I hear how each out you tune your Harps. I try to stay away from A B C D E F...
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Thanks Alasdair I am trying to get on the same page as the rest of you, so thanks for putting up with me. I think that we are using the same words but they...
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Feb 2, 2006 5:21 am
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OK Alasdair I think we are narrowing down the differences in definitions for the words .... Do you want to continue in this forum or go direct e-mail as I seem...
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Dear Joe, <I think that we are using the same words but they mean different things to you than they do to me and I am searching for common definitions where...
Hello Joe, Alasdair, everyone, Please don't take the discussion offline as I'm trying to learn from all this stuff. I hope all you scholarly types don't mind...
Dear Janet and Joe, ... neophytes trying to hang on in the wings.... < This is Joe's licence to patronise! Janet's out there silently taking it all in, and...
Dear JP, I am not an expert, and despite being familiar with modern, koine and septuagint Greek, I haven't read the Greek musical documents. However, based in...
... Thanks Alasdair...I think I get what Simon was saying now...so they were holding a lyre, with thick string nearest to them, as if we were to hold the harp...
Alesdair Hi I am not trying to irritate you. The simple stuff I an presenting to see if there is anything that we agree on. We have the worst of language...
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Janet, Thank you for this post; I most emphatically second the notion!. Claire Janet Kurnick <jkurnick@...> wrote: Hello Joe, Alasdair, everyone, ...
Claire and Janet I will try. I really need to present some of the data in tables that does get destroyed by some mail handlers. So I am going to try an...
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Dear Joe, ... Could you provide the evidence of temperaments as specific as the above pre-existing the Pythagorean scale in Europe? ... Playing Bunting's...
Dear JP, ... is...eh, two notes??? < Have a look back at message 140 where I mention how I tie in my concept of the dyads to my conceptualisation of Gaelic...
Dear Joe, A thought occurred to me the other day. Your definition of mode appears to equate this Latin term with concepts related to the Greek armoniai. (For...
Keith, Now you are in my realm. Depends what you mean by fairies? Do they have to have wings or are you just refering to magical creatures of the other world. ...
Greetings Keith, Jacqueline, This sounded interesting and potentially usefull,just found it the other day and skimmed it:"Music and the Celtic Otherworld,from...
Hi there, yes Karen Ralls's book is rather interesting, it is quite a focussed and dense study, just looking at Irish texts from the early medieval time...
Heigh Ho, Ummm, I think this thread started as the closing part of message #182:Subject:Harps in Child and has transformed into Fairy Lore. Is Holy Water...
Claire, I do believe that I have read tuning the harp was referred to as "putting the universe in harmony". I really liked that image. Jacqueline RE: Claire...
Claire, I will look it up. Thank you. Jacqueline ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best...
Simon, Thank you greatly for these details; I'm veerrryyyy much interested in and always looking for info and texts from the medieval(and Renaissance) time...
