Folks, for anyone who may be interested, following recent events Alasdair has left this group, but he has set up a new mail list for anyone interested... ...
... Cynthia, Thank you for enlightening me on the practical nature regarding to sister string or not. I'll definitly consider the matter carefully before I...
jkv-togmencont@...
Nov 2, 2005 12:23 am
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... I'm getting ready to leave town as well, (heading off to Dusty Strings Thursday morning!) So...can we pick up on this thread when I get back next week? Of...
OHHHHHH PPPPLEEEASE - that cover is absolutely Goshdarn AWFUL!!!! Someone should be definitely be strung up (no pun intended)_ for putting that dreadful...
Joanna Mell
godsharper@...
Nov 2, 2005 4:54 am
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Wow, you guys are WAY too sensative. It also has about 10 strings and built in levers to tune the pegs on the other side of the harp and who's to say they...
... ??? Mmmm My brother has my copy of Bunting...but (as far as I am aware) I have an old drawing of Grandmaster Hempsey on the cover of mine...seems right to...
... I was speaking in particular of the cover on Dover Publications' reissue of the 1840. You can go to Dover's website and type "Bunting" into the search ...
Be kind now. hey. I often play with my fist in the air. ... Robert Mouland WireHarp Productions www.wireharp.com [Non-text portions of this message have been...
Sadly, the Dover site won't let me see the picture zoomed up large, but is it indeed the case that the body of the harp, complete with string fixings, goes on...
...sorry , that should read FIRST one to make it work!! (Shows I've been up too long working!) R. ... From: Richard York To: WireHarp@yahoogroups.com Sent:...
Hello everybody! Last summer i attended a workshop by Bill Taylor, who introduced us to the old welsh playing techniques (fixed finger movements like...
I wouldn't say that whole pieces (in Robert ap Huw) are just the figures, though it uses them quite a bit. The figures themselves fall into what appear to be...
Yes. There's a full chapter, with Cornish lyrics and full notes, in _Folksongs of Britain and Ireland_ by Peter Kennedy which also has a chapter each on music...
Thanks very much, that's a great help! --Nan ... From: WireHarp@yahoogroups.com [mailto:WireHarp@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Patricia Vivien Yarrow Sent:...
I'm a bit late on this...trying to catch up after being off for a week. Here's the legend as I remember it: The hazelnut, in Irish legend, was the fruit of...
You're quite welcome. Also of interest: many of the traditional May songs are from Cornwall, including Hal-an-Tow. I ran a google on the Padstow May Song...
Let's make this in a couple of weeks, or I hope at least by the end of the year. The project got more complicated than I had anticipated. Pat ... have ... ...
Wow, what a treasure. Thanks again. --Nan ... From: WireHarp@yahoogroups.com [mailto:WireHarp@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Patricia Vivien Yarrow Sent:...
... I look forward to hearing all about it! BTW Thanks for your clarification on other points...I hadn't really considered that the modes were based on the...
Congrats on the theory progress. Another clarification: what you're talking about here *is* a diatonic tuning. ___________ \Di`a*ton"ic\, a. [L. diatonicus,...
... Yes, Pat, thanks again...I need to look over the modes and scales again with focus on the intervals...as opposed to just the letters... : ) JP Signup to...
I was recently inspired by a few things to investigate modes with less than 7 notes. The first was Cynthia Cathcarts class on gapped scales. The second was a...
Hello, and thanks for this. You might try the harmonic minor with the 5th left in and the 6th omitted instead. This skips the infamous augmented second...
Is anyone going to write and tell us all about how this went? For the benefit of those of us who couldn't make it? I surely *thought* I was going to be...
Hi Sheilia...since no one else has written, I guess I will. I'm really sorry you had to miss the Symposium; it was great, my brain is overstuffed, and I'm...
Oh THANK YOU, Nan !!! On Nov 10, 2005, at 8:50 PM, Nan Pardew wrote: Hi Sheilia...since no one else has written, I guess I will. I'm really sorry you had to...
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