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A' chairdean, A series of concerts are taking place as part of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, one of which features Gaelic harp as yours truly will kicking...
Hope Thursday's film show went well Alasdair. And best wishes for next Monday. Some of us are on the way to Kilkenny so won't be able to come... Best wishes ...
The Historical Harp Society of Ireland presents three concerts: Harp Music of the Old Gaelic World at Rothe House, Parliament St, Kilkenny on Saturday 25th...
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I am soooooooooooo wishing I was there!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Sigh...................... Janet in Sacramento, California...
ditto.... Still to far from Ireland to go to these great gatherings, but luckily closer to the Edinburgh International Harp Festival, hope to see you there...
Hi Simon, You mentioned before that you were doing regular meetings in Dundee, I have now permanently moved to Scotland (living in Invergowrie, found a great ...
Dear Hannah, These are beginner classes in early clàrsach. Replica medieval and baroque Irish and Scottish harps are available to rent. They are every...
Dear friends, Correction: The HHSI's concert 'Harp Music of the Old Gaelic World' in Galway Arts Centre,Dominick St, Galway is of course on THURSDAY 30th ...
Dear Keith, I finally got to the 2006 Scottish Gaelic Studies publication, following up more information on words like ceis. I read the O Machain article on...
Dear Alasdair Glad to hear that you have caught up on your reading at last. As far as I recollect I quoted that article as an illustration that the old ideas...
Dear Keith, Thanks for the suggestions for reading. I still find the direction of the article on Uilleam Mac Mhurchaidh was not written according to the bent...
Well Alasdair, two people locked in the same room together are still likely to have different perspectives on the situation. The sources of William MacMurchies...
Dear Keith, Thanks for that. I find the words of the title "The Dimensions of an harp" (tomhaisean clairsiche) very curious. When I personally write down the...
Dear Alisdair Yes, I would agree with your views on the title,if we do assume that it was not his own instrument the 'tone' of the title does however fit with...
Dear Keith, I've had another think. With reference to your Gillquan interpretation, I wonder if you have the Colquhoun variant Colquan in the back of your...
A' chairdean, I'm proposing that we give up on the authenticity of the terms uachtarchanas, cronan iochtarchanas, teannorchanas and bassaschanas owing to the...
What a shame, I like telling my students the all the strings have their own names. D you think we can get away with 'teud uachtar' and 'cronan iochdar'? ...
Simon, a charaid, Some of my Scottish- and Irish-speaking acquaintances reject the notion of assisting the gradual Anglicisation of Gaelic usages by ...
Simon chòir! I forgot to mention that my modal studies progressively confront me with the possibility that Bb was once used as a retuning device with sisters...
Thankyou Alasdair, point taken. Also for comhluighe c and Bb. Cronan F, interesting but not convinced. I wonder how latin terminology (itself a minefield)...
Alasdair Sorry to have been a while catching up with these subjects, have been up to my neck with other work. There are no other examples of MacMurchies...
Dear Simon, Yes, it all depends on why it was called the crònan, doesn't it? Was it for its modal role or merely after the resonance of c and G on the ...
Dear Kieth, Niel still seems a Teutonic spelling to me. It would be like me writing Alisdair. I'm thinking of the name Niels and the words spiel, tier,...
Dear Alasdair Could not agree more re Teutonic/Anglo Saxon, but I have always got the impression from all the contemporary material that I have read my way...
Dear Keith, Gaelic words such as 'fiùran' (sapling / blooming male youth) illustrate the same metaphoric usage, just as in English you know that a metaphor is...
Dear Simon, I should correct something I said before about the -B -F modal sets. Please disregard the following paragraph if you haven't done so already. "The...
Dear Alasdair I am afraid that I quoted the line simply in relation to the use of 'pong' for note. I was not expecting you to focus on the interpretation of...
Dear Keith, It seems we just have to disagree again! Beannachdan, Alasdair ... with ... me ... Although ... piper ... own ... normal ... youth) ... a ... ...
Hi all, Now that those of us who attended the super Scoil na gCláirseach have had a little time to catch our breath, I would love to hear what you other...
SCOIL NA gCLAIRSEACH Summer School of Early Irish Harp 2007 The Historical Harp Society of Ireland presented its fifth annual Scoil na gCláirseach–Summer...
