You can set the sort order of messages? Just click on the link in the date column. Your preferences will be remembered, so you don't have to do it again when you return.
... Yes I did not mean to imply that, I was noting that two different versions of a text choose to use two different words to explain the same constext - one...
Dear Simon, That's another webpage that badly needs re-writing! I'm really dissatisfied now with the development of the 'feithealach' spelling as a modern...
... Oh good, I never liked them! Thats an interesting idea of female companions i.e. sisters you propose. ... Yes an interesting question. I have long wondered...
Folks, Have been reading stuff on music cosmology ref. music of spheres etc. and it seems a range of authors argue that modern equal temperment tuning, is out...
Thankfully for the less cosmologically-minded followers of this list, there are solid practical isues here as well. Equal temperament was invented so that all...
Hello JP, Hello List folk, The cosmological significance of music, scales and tones have been a subject of debate for eons; its a topic far beyond the capacity...
Cool, thanks Simon... ...a point then from this...is what 'pitch' would the sisters have originally been...any ideas on this...for this may have been as the ...
Yeah, I guess I really will have to learn to tune by ear...I know Alastair...explained to me how to do this at first harp school...but eh, I must confess I do...
Here's my .02 worth on temperaments and tuning: While it's true Bach didn't invent equal temperament, it was probably in use in places before his time. The...
Hello again list, Hi Keith! There are an amazing amount of ex and current organists and bassoonists who play wire harp! An interesting point for investigation....
Hello, All--I'm fascinated by tuning, so thank you all for this thread. I have a couple of disjointed comments. Some 15 years ago, when I first met Ann, she...
Hi Chad! Thanks for your input. I read Ann's article when it came out and it still makes sense. My thoughts about tuning up a bit wouldn't of course...
Dear Keith, ... mean for tuning!?) can be at G or C.< In my last message on this subject, I was so interested in the possible link between 'wolf' and 'féola'...
Hello again, Keith, I heard you playing French Baroque music on the radio show" Harmonia" a few weeks ago with a bassoon quartet or trio. Tremendous stuff!!! ...
Thanks for the kind words Chad! My teacher and a colleague and I are on that CD doing all French baroque music for bass instruments. There's a bassoon duet...
Hi again Keith, "BASSically French"??? No not early music puns, please anything but that...I'll talk !! Please!!NOOOOO!!!!!!! All those low instruments...
... Read Sallys article...useful translation work... She partly answers my question as to what the measures are, but it is still far from clear in terms of any...
Hi Johnny- The 24 measures are indeed complex and interesting, but their application to wire harpers in the Irish/Scottish tradition is less well-defined. The...
Hi I'm a wire harper from Hampshire (just outside Southampton) Been playing for just over a year 22 brass wire strung harp made by Don Peddle of Ramdon Sound...
I was wondering if anyone has read the new article by Peter Greenhill on Paul Dooley's site RE: THE FORGOTTEN,SILVER-VOICED HARP OF WALES? It has some...
Hi Birch, I'm not sure that because some in the 21st century think the Robert ap Huw music sounds better on wire is good evidence that the Welsh instruments of...
Looks very fragile and like it would need care and be best in a setting where it was looked after and displayed. Like a UNIVERSITY library uh...hummmm! Anybody...
I've been thinking about some of Simon's comments at Early Gaelic Harp Info re: RaH improvisation and am wondering if Harpers memorized melodies, measures, and...
Hello Peter, Seems to be a lull? "mixed and matched" might be a bit loose - but certainly different "schools" of interpretation can produce very different...
<Sure there are hints in the Welsh laws etc. that there were other types <of harp than the horsehair bray type, and we might expect some <clarsairs there, if...
Folks Wondering if anyone has mused on cosmic designs on harps...such as trinity sound box...have read that alot of ancient art, such a trispiral etc. may have...
