There's a very interesting new article by Sally Harper. I've only just glanced at it. It discusses relating the poems of the 14th c. Welsh poet-harper Dafydd...
Hi All, I am Hannah, I have played the harp for the last twenty years (nearly). As my father makes harps for a living, i have a good knowledge of most harps...
Hello Hannah, Nice to meet you here. I was delighted to meet Tim at EIHF the other month and enjoyed chatting with him and looking at his harps. However time...
Listen to Bonnie Rideout playing Cumh Ioarla Wigton on the fiddle, from "Scotlands Music" the other week: http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/player/?item=4451402 ...
Dear Friends, The timetable for the 2007 Scoil na gClàirseach in Kilkenny has been posted on the website: http://www.irishharpschool.com/timetable.htm We hope...
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Dear Simon, Further to our necessarily curtailed discussion today, I'll put down the features we were discussing about the patterns on the stringband of the...
Greetings list, I think I already mentioned this on the list some time ago, but if not: Moving the comhlai up to c also divides the small low-headed harps ...
Dear Keith, Yes, I've always had this transposition in the back of my mind because of the waulking songs. It's only now I'm starting to work through them...
Dear Simon and Keith, It didn't take me long to review my waulking song study at all and I'm absolutely fine with the idea of sisters at C and a corpus of ...
Dear Alasdair, thanks for wielding the camera, the result is in the group photo section. I think we can agree that putting comnluighe on middle c works well ...
Dear Simon, The two lower cross marked pegs might indicate G and GG then (this man can look at the original harp in the afternoon and forget the specifics by...
Personally I find that comhluighe g with the lowest string as cronan G just works so perfectly on the Qm and Trinity, and the scaling matches with the others...
Dear Simon, Ah well, what we do today with different elements of tradition is another question! Thinking with regard to the traditional repertoire as we have...
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Anyone online now, in about 1 1/2 hours from posting this message I think, Ann Heymann is on internet radio with a performance of Abbi Bettinis' composition...
Hello all, There is some video of Bill Taylor performing music from the Robert ap Huw manuscript, and also Dr. Meredydd Evans reciting some of the poetry of...
Dear all, Something I hadn't come across before from the Tain Bo Fliodhaise which concerns the term ceis. I don't have the precise quotation details and I...
Dear friends, I'll be participating in a concert at the National Gallery in Washington DC this Sunday, July 8. The music will reflect the current exhibit...
Dear Simon, Well, that's just the thing. The number of explanations given in the Amhra glosses seem to indicate that the glossers themselves didn't know what...
'The glossers themselves didn't know' seems a rather mild statement for you Alasdair ? Does the fact that they 'glossed' in the first place not show that they...
Dear Keith, I think you're saying roughly what I was trying to say. However, it relates to our previous posts about transmission. Verbal glossing is...
A' chairdean, Does everybody know about this? One Greek word for a companion, parastatis (companion, helper, lit. one who stands beside), was used to mean...
We agree Alasdair ? I am perforce tempted to stop there, but of course we are talking relativity here, the survival and consistency of the Gaelic material both...
Dear Keith, I was actually trying to articulate views held by non-Gaelic experts about Gaelic transmission which was a comparative view related to quality and...
Dear Keith, Just found those last two verses: Iain Og Ile had them. Beannachd, Alasdair ... experts ... cultures. ... historical ... question ... woman ... an ...
Dear Alasdair Agreeing is getting monotonous, so having reached that difficult age I would pedantically point out that your example from the BoD is just an...
