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Hello all, I hope you are all greedily clutching your copies of Cruit go nÓr by now!!! If not why not? :-) I apologise if some of you never got my latest...
My copy arrived just today and I'm halfway through my first listen. It's been long awaited, but well worth the wait. Over the years I've gotten to hear a...
Hi gang! I wrote a few comments on the wire harp list. Rather than cross-post, go ye and read if you're so inclined! In a nutshell, the new recording is...
Folks, Yeah Ann's new CD is fantastic...cheers Simon for speedy posting! : ) Robert cheers for sharing pics...cracker of the downhill! JP ... Try the all-new...
Folks, I am wondering, if the main modal scales/contexts of gaelic harp music are in the keys of GACD with F natural...what happens when the harp is tuned to...
JP, For a start, try Conchubhar Mac Coiréibhe and the Clergy's Lamentation. Then have a good look through the Carolan repertoire (numbers 15, 26, 49, 57, 68...
Hi all, I was just listening again to Airrgeann Mór - I was suddenly really impressed by some of the evil sounds that Ann was making. This is something to...
Yes. Such fire and drama in the recording. Ann shows us the instrument's possibilities again. Ed Peters ... suddenly ... This ... think ... is a ... cross-...
Amongst the things that I love about these early harps; how the range of sounds they produce shatters the misconception of the harp as cute "tinkling toys" or...
Hi Chad, I agree, it is great that the songs are actually sung on the CD as well as just played in instrumental versions. A right challenge for all of us, to...
A challege indeed! Yet, as high as Ann has set the bar for us mere mortals, I think her recordings should be looked upon as something for us to aspire to. Now...
Speaking of Queen bees and mere mortals, here's a "killer" bee story that was handed to me at dinner tonight about a computer foul-up over the phrase, "the...
Hi all, I am looking again at my web pages http://www.earlygaelicharp.info/sources/ which have not been updated for too long... and I wondered if any of you...
Dear Chad, Is it true that it has been 'shown that Bunting frequently confused the fingerings he was given'? I'm not sure that it wouldn't be more likely that...
Hello Alasdair, good to hear from you again!! <<Is it true that it has been 'shown that Bunting frequently confused the fingerings he was given'?>> I don't...
bass D and trable D are both called "freagrach" I mean only those two, theres no indication that all the other notes are similarly called (as in 1840). Are...
Dear Simon, With regard to your webpage statements on ladhar (hoof) or glas (lock), I wouldn't say myself that 'the long resonance of the bass strings makes...
As I am presumably an antique can I join in this discussion. Buntings 1840 edition is best viewed as two books bound together as one. The first part containing...
Dear Keith, Thanks very much for that information. ... O'Niel and it was the good doctors pressure on Bunting to put in the musical terms along with a...
Hi Alasdair, perhaps my web page is a bit sweeping, it wass written 2 or 3 years ago to make a point... one day I'll update it... I think what I was getting at...
Dear Simon, Now it's getting really interesting ... ... Perhaps they have no explanation. First of all, I'd comment that the three notations of glas and...
Well Alasdair, I sometimes feel about a hundred especially when listening to the ever rising pitch of the modern pipe chanter. Do I detect that we have some...
... Alasdair and all, Sorry to raise this question of scales of E again...but I don't get how having scales or modes in the key of E with F sharp...is any...
Dear Keith, Bring the chanter back down to G, that'd give them a shock. ... involved in transcribing the harpers music if he had not acquired some material of...
Dear JP, If I understand you correctly, my problem here relates to the importance of the dyad. To hypothesise 7, 6 & 5 note scales for Gaelic harp music, I...
Dear JP, To reply to your first point, a heptatonic scale of #7E is the same as a heptatonic scale of o7A, but you need to retune the harp to move from one to...
