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Dear Keith, Thanks for that. Brings back memories of nights in the snow taking notes in pencil... The thesis contains information about the 'car cruith' (harp...
Thanks Keith, I had seen it, have downloaded it and flicked though, looks very interesting. In fact it is interesting that it seems more coherent and logical...
Simon, a charaid, You make a lot of valid points. The top marks are a bit redundant if they're only going to tell you that each vertical column is a beat! ...
Hello all, Firstly, thanks Keith for posting the link to Paul Whittaker's thesis, and thanks Alasdair for your followup. I enjoyed reading your pages on the...
Karen, a bhana-charaid, Glad the 'car cruith' pages proved useful to you. This point about the linguistic influence on the interpretation of instrumental...
A chàirdean, What do y'all think of the suggestion that someone may have written 'freagrach' for the bass strings and 'Do. freagrach' for the treble, meaning...
Hello Alasdair, instant response, I thought we had discussed this before? MS12 f18v gives "fregrach" for the bass notes and "freagrach" for the trebles. Super...
A question that always mentally poses itself here when Bunting is referred to is how sure are we that he actually wrote what is there? As most of his principle...
Dear Keith, I've just listened to the radio programme. I have to say that it's yet another scenario where the Gaelic viewpoint has to defend or prove itself...
Dear Alasdair I am afraid that the Americanisation of Bruce is probably already well underway, witness his portrayal in the film 'Braveheart', although that...
Any comments or opinions on this that I have just discovered? Any ones that are particularly of interest? Any that have a particular bearing on early clàrsach...
... Well there are the gamuts & tunings in ms29 which were obviously collected early by Bunting. The ms12 page which Ann first pointed out to me, I am less...
Dear Simon, Many thanks for putting that up online, it's great to have ready access to these versions. It's a shame that the dreadful title transcriptions...
Dear Simon, I'd say so. It is very interesting that, for publication, Bunting ignores the use of the article with na comhlaí, despite being given this by...
Can the names in MS29 be shown to tie up directly with what is in the 1840 volume? But to pick up on Alasdair's comments, yes the accuracy of some of the...
Here's the page from ms29 (my hand copy) for those who have not seen it. I ought to spend more time keeping these pages up to date, adding some notes to them. ...
Thanks for that Simon, if you are right about it being Buntings hand then it would seem that he either did have some acquaintance with Gaelic orthography or...
Dear Simon, I agree that these aren't English phonetics. How do we know Bunting didn't do Irish classes along with his Irish learning peers? I've never...
A chàirdean, Here's the relevant MacDonnell information from MS35 f40r. "Dear Bunting, Since hearing from you, I have learned from Pat. Byrne, a Harper, that...
A chàirdean, Here's the other main portion of the MacDonnell information as quoted in the Annals of the Irish Harpers pp133-134. " "When you go to Dublin get...
A chàirdean, It strikes me that we cannot assume that MacDonnell's list was taken down from the harpers. How does he know that "the really technical words...
Stimulating thoughts, if we take the statement 'prior to O'Neill' at face value then it does raise even more questions. if O'Neill was the first to start...
Dear Keith, It's quite a business this. Your scheme seems very likely but I have so many questions. I'm not sure that it's implied that Arthur O'Neill used...
Dear Alasdair Yes, your right its quite a buisness,I would certainly agree that there is a question mark regarding whether O'Neilll used any Irish when he...
Dear Keith, Since I don't generally have a memory, I don't think I'll even try to catch up with your own not inconsiderable one. Perhaps MacDonnell's ...
Alasdair do you think this grouping of songs is a performance issue or due to the nature of putting them on wax cylinder? I found Macintosh's Lament...
Dear Simon, These songs have been set down in no particular grouping and the same would have been true of the later tape recordings. However, the number of...
A chàirdean, Another contrivance but it's maybe worth posting this info to the group for sheer curiosity value. The Egerton 1782 version of Aidedh Fergusa...
Alasdair Your suggestion that Dr MacDonnells interest coincided with the formation of the Ulster Gaelic Society would certainly fit with what is known....
Dear Keith, ... Yes, although C before an E would be pronounced as an /s/ by English speakers. Caulai C would not. MacDonnell's K is probably an attempt to...
