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Hi Alasdair and Simon- I agree that the barring is contrived. But I find them useful for referencing the part in the harp piece that sounds like the "keen" on...
Dear Keith and Claire, I'd say it's important to look primarily at Gaelic musical terms when discussing Gaelic musical categories. Off the top of my head, I...
Dear Claire, Just reading Martin Martin's account of the island of Hiort (St Kilda) and its inhabitants in June 1697. The Clàrsair Dall (Roderick Morison)...
Hello all, Discovered this via a piper friend. Defines many terms concerning Ceol Mhor and for very useful for understanding your local piper in conversation....
Dear Chad, It's quite handy but, like most things pipers write for handy purposes, quite rough. It'll certainly provide you with basic terminology. I gave it...
Hi Alasdair, Hi Group, Ann once warned me not to trust the piper's own descriptions of terminology too literally, not because they didn't know what they were...
Hello all- I missed this thread due to doctoral exams. I hope no one minds me piping(!) in now a month later. I am also very interested in the ceol mor rep...
There's the bees plait in the Robert ap Huw ms. which may have been used on wire. It is exactly the same figure and it is played 3-2-1 using Buntings finger...
Ed, and Keith, no-one knows how the bees plait is played, as Robert ap Huw unhelpfully omits his finger tablature and merely writes "zz" at that point. I go...
... I still like to play Ann Heymann's "Lament for the Harp", more or less the way she does even though the ornaments don't end up sounding like pipe...
Hi Simon- Thanks for that note on the bee plait/plethiad wenynen. I had also been told at some point that this term was the thrice-upon-a-string figure. I...
Dear Keith, Just now, I'm using the back (convex) side of the thumbnail together with normal concave side for the repeated shorts in the Cumh' Iarla Wigton...
Dear Janet, That's very kind indeed. I must quickly pass on any glory to all the people who have discussed these gracings with me and thank them for their...
A' chàirdean, I've just been alerted to a slip of the mind. This is in reference ... The deciphering was actually first done in 1974 by Paul D Whittaker. I...
I have a copy at home. I'll take a look tonight. Ed Peters ... reference ... Whittaker. ... wonder ... his ... even ... Heymann's ... Historical ... Iarla ......
Dear Ed, Thanks. I'll be interested to be reminded of what Paul Whittakers initial ideas were. This group is corporately so well-stocked and read - and...
Alasdair, Some more references... Arnold Dolmetsch of course published a table of fingerings in 1937 but he did not spot the directons or colours of the notes...
Dear Simon, Thanks for that. I knew about the Dolmetsch fingerings but forgot about the Thurston Dart ones as well. I really need a revision so thank God I...
I took a quick look through the thesis last night. Whittaker appears to have done most of the dicipering building on Dart's work. Dart figured out that the...
Dear Ed, It would be great to be able to discuss these graces in the group. An important question is how 'tuneful' rather than 'graceful' they are, in...
Dear JP, Interesting stuff. I presume you're working off the -FB pentatonic scales. The forefeda development does seem to be a later stage of ogham. Might...
A' chàirdean, This is just to let you know that I've given up trying to fit Carolan's songs into an aaa-G harp-vocal range and also to give some reasons why...
I'd like to post these in pieces. I have to start with a disclaimer. I am not a musicologist, just an interested amateur. I've been studying Robert ap Huw on...
The number stands for the number in order on page 35 of the ms. Finger numbers are 1 - 4 with the thumb as 1. y plethiad byr (the short plait) - Number 2 One...
