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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...
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Dear friends, We've just realised that one institution was inadvertently left off our thank you list in our Scoil report to you: We would like to thank Dr....
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Dear Karen, The link that Simon gave is possibly the older version of the article. I keep editing my website according to information or realisations that...
Hi Alasdair, Thanks for your insight on Scott's Lamentation. I haven't spent as much time as I would like on this - have been pursuing some other intersting...
Dear Karen, I hope you managed to detach yourself from the computer keyboard after typing that. I notice that Ann interprets the aa as a dotted quaver as well,...
Hi Alasdair, it was a nice suprise to bump into you in Edinburgh yesterday, sorry I did not have more leisure to hang around and chat longer. To pick up on...
The trick is to go and listen to them in the sessions in Ireland, go to workshops etc. As far as archive material, you will find Comhaltas very helpful there....
Dear Simon It does not sound from your message as though yo have investigated the School of Scottish Studies online Tocher site ? at www.pearl.arts.ed.ac.uk ...
Thanks Keith, yes that is a good presentation, however it seems that there is hardly any material up there and it is only a 'trial run' for a project that...
