Keith C - I know that is the English answer with the word "harp" but I do not believe it for Gaelic. Keith S - no I was simply meaning that a drawn wire was...
For those of you interested in Foreign Stuff, Sally Harper has a book coming out in June: 'Music in Welsh culture before 1650 : a study of the principal ...
The photo is of a XII century carving, on the left handside one can see the word ROTA. Thank you all for this very interesting thread/debate. Brendan...
... (...) ... In Finnish mythology Väinämöinen fashions the first kantele (a zither-like instrument?) out of the jawbone of a giant pike. He uses its teeth...
If you hadn't heard, Ann Heymann's CD will be on Peadar O'Riada's radio show in Ireland on Friday, February 9 at 7:00pm Irish time. You can listen to the...
Dear Simon, Thanks for the link http://www.rte.ie/rnag/cuireadhchunceoil.html Peadar really went to town on the album, didn't he, saying it was extremely...
I just posted something about this on Historical Harps, and thought people here might also want to know: I recently enquired at the University of Wales Press,...
Dear All, please chip in even if you know nothing, I'd like some 2nd opinions here. Flicking through various settings of the Coolin I have here I noticed that...
Dear Simon Its all to do with where you put the emphasis in 'desart' its the same word as a little place further south from you along the Fife coast called...
Hi Keith (and everyone else)I agree with your interpretation, it seems like the word's ethymology is latin and it refers to an hermitage. Many exemples in...
I notice that in my previous reply I described Scotland and Ireland as being to dry for real deserts, when I should have said wet. I was obviously confused...
Oh Karen if only you had posted that this morning instead of this afternoon!!! I found 6 settings to check but consulting your list gave me 11 more... ...
Ah... to reply to my self (guaranteed decent conversation that way i suppose...) ... Stanford-Petrie is given as ABC beneath the list - "how convenient". It is...
Dear Simon Your earlier question regarding Lyons as the person with a high opinion of his own importance ( probably not since there is no evidence that he was...
Simon I see what you mean about talking to yourself, I was thinking on from the suggestion that Lyons might not have been a Gaelic speaker and if the MacLean...
Dear Simon, I see you've left an information gap from our last discussion in Cill Ŕmhinn. (Thanks again for the tucker). Ríon an Uaigneas literally means...
Thanks for starting this topic, Simon. I've enjoyed reading everyone's replies (always an education for this newcomer), and it gave me an excuse to download...
Karen, I use Barfly from http://www.barfly.dial.pipex.com/ Alasdair is it just me or is that second half of Ríon an Uaigneas suspiciously similar to Tommy...
... Thank you, Brendan. It's a real treasure-trove. ........... On another subject, I'm looking for some information on a tune that has been passed down in my...
Simon Having spent 20 minutes trying to download the MS29 version and finding after all that I had the wrong page ( is there any corelation between the MS page...
... Thank you, Alasdair - that's it! I wonder when the "kitty" lyrics became attached to "Comin Thro' The Rye". "Once there was a little kitty, White as the...
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