You're as bad as my dad, Gill, who always claims it's a beautiful day in Manchester whenever I ring him. He's just jealous about not being Cornwall. At 1400h in Edinburgh it was fairly cloudy and only 11.9°C. T-shirt weather my 'arris!
The Arrival (Entry?) Of The Queen Of Sheba - the Handel one that De Dannan did. I recently bought a piano book of Baroque snippets for this purpose (I thought the De Dannan take on it was terrific).
But I've not been applying myself very hard. Maybe I should cut my teeth on some of the dirges first. Still, the Sheba piece does seem potentially very feasible on the two-and-a-half-row D/G melodeon, at any rate played in G instead of its original Bb.
In the middle of reviving some reels I used to play that have dropped off the radar over the last coupe years. Blackhaired Lass, McDonagh's, and the Aughasachel. Plus sorting out the B part to a Paddy Fahey reel in C--the one that starts: cBGF DEFD|G2DG BcdB (thanks to Reverend for infecting me with this one).
Minus 8 C here in Montana this morning, more snow on the way. Clear and blustery for now.
No Cause : "It was cold and wet and miserable in Perth this morning but it seems to have brightened up somewhat now."
So now its somewhat bright and miserable in Perth.
Yep, that's how I remember it.
Self and brother in law taking a wagon up Scotch about 30 years back - ended up stopping over in Perth when the driving hours ran out. So we went in a butchers shop and asked if they sold meat pies.
I have a bad chest and am off work! It is brightening up in Belfast, silver spear. bazouki dave is in newcastle, I used to live there for a while and i miss it!!
I am learning 'trip to athlone' from the danu cd, on the fiddle.
I am learning Brendan Tonra's on the whistle. I dont know why, but I want to learn the pipes and learning the whistle seems a good place to start!!! Well, it wont hurt , will it?
Cool, wet, and raining here.
I am at work and we are having a slow day so far.
When I get off from work today, I have to go to the dentist for some torture. No, I am not looking forward to my visit to the dentist but it is a necessary evil.
That's the thing about playing a box. You can roll out a dirge on caterpillar tracks over the flibbertydiddle music absolutely whenever you like, reducing its players to sullen resentment and morbid thoughts. I do not make too much of a habit of this - it's just nice to know I have it in my power...
The real thing ITM and Baroque have in common is shoals of dirges and death stuff - it ain't all fluffy toe-tapping Carolan-influencing musical fairy-dust...
My memories of shopping in Scotland are distant - I haven't been there for a long time - and possibly affected by a tendency to exaggerate and incipient brain death, but they lead me to conclude that you struck comparatively lucky in Perth: at least you found out when you could buy meat pies *next* time. Unless they altered the day, that is, as soon as they'd told you.
My impression was that opening days / hours for each place of expected service or supply were decidedly few, and ordained in each town by the application of some local folk version of the Mayan Calendar or the Enigma Code. Their number was further eroded by local holidays and Scottish bank holidays, the dates of these being determined by the fact you were going to turn up on them unawares needing to buy food for a largish number of people.
To find a Scottish town with everything open and abounding in merchandise would have been a bit like coming upon Brigadoon / fairies at their revels / Greek goddesses bathing - a somewhat gob-smacking and apprehension-inducing encounter, possibly signifying the end of the world. I don't think I can remember such a thing.
The weather improved on Skye, except for on the summits of the Cuillins where it still appeared to suck so I curled up in front of a nice fire and did work for a while before heading down south.
The chippy in Tyndrum is happily open whenever I am passing through.
I listened to Gay, Sean, and Connor McKeown's Dusty Miller album and Matt Molloy, John Carty, and Arty McGlynn's Pathway to the Well album driving down and was yet again reminded of the utter awesomeness of those CDs. Brilliant stuff.
In Finistère it's been drizzling all day and I couldn't see the mountains for the mist. However at least I didn't have to go to work or the dentist so I'll be thankful for small mercies
I thought it was Fitzroy these days. Blowing a gale here tonight with driving rain and an uncannily-high temperature of 17.5°C. Last night didn't go below 16.2°. I don't like it one little bit. Global summat or other I reckon.
dooby do. kinda bored
dooby do. kinda bored
Must think of discussion......hmm. I know - what tunes are you learnin at the mo?
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by richrua
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All of them
.... well ... all of the good ones
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by ...
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none of them . . . i know them all already
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by lisaniska
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Look I'm really busy right now, go and bug someone else.
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by showaddydadito
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I knew them all ... once
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by ...
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Slow day at work, eh?
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by DrSilverSpear
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Not enough of them! I've been really lazy on the tunes lately... Gotta get myself together...
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by Pontus Adefjord
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Very slow and damp here in Newcastle wish I was in France
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by bazouki dave
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"Knowing a tune." Discuss.
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by Steve Shaw
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" "Knowing a tune." Discuss. "
.........Steve, that belongs in that 'other' thread about the worms
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by domhnall.
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Very slow and wet on Skye but would rather stay than go back to the big city.
I knew a tune once......
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by DrSilverSpear
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Does it go diddly diddley or is it the other one?
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by bazouki dave
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The other one.
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by DrSilverSpear
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Just trying to add a little focus on a wet and dreary day, that's all.
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by Steve Shaw
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I tried looking up a tune then got side-tracked so now I'm learning a different one.
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by gtag
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Kinda damp over in France too, bazouki.
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by Tirno
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Nice and sunny in edinburgh. T-shirt weather
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by ...
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But for me there is sunshine in Angers
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by bazouki dave
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You're as bad as my dad, Gill, who always claims it's a beautiful day in Manchester whenever I ring him. He's just jealous about not being Cornwall. At 1400h in Edinburgh it was fairly cloudy and only 11.9°C. T-shirt weather my 'arris!
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by Steve Shaw
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in Cornwall innit.
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by Steve Shaw
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It was cold and wet and miserable in Perth this morning but it seems to have brightened up somewhat now.
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by No Cause For Alarm
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The Arrival (Entry?) Of The Queen Of Sheba - the Handel one that De Dannan did. I recently bought a piano book of Baroque snippets for this purpose (I thought the De Dannan take on it was terrific).
But I've not been applying myself very hard. Maybe I should cut my teeth on some of the dirges first. Still, the Sheba piece does seem potentially very feasible on the two-and-a-half-row D/G melodeon, at any rate played in G instead of its original Bb.
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by nicholas
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I thought you played dirges already nic
Sorry I could not resist such an obvious responce
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by bazouki dave
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In the middle of reviving some reels I used to play that have dropped off the radar over the last coupe years. Blackhaired Lass, McDonagh's, and the Aughasachel. Plus sorting out the B part to a Paddy Fahey reel in C--the one that starts: cBGF DEFD|G2DG BcdB (thanks to Reverend for infecting me with this one).
Minus 8 C here in Montana this morning, more snow on the way. Clear and blustery for now.
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by Will Harmon
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wow, I'm infectious... Tried to play that Fahy at a blazing clip in session the other night, and it fell apart... well... in a blaze..
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by Reverend
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No Cause : "It was cold and wet and miserable in Perth this morning but it seems to have brightened up somewhat now."
So now its somewhat bright and miserable in Perth.
Yep, that's how I remember it.
Self and brother in law taking a wagon up Scotch about 30 years back - ended up stopping over in Perth when the driving hours ran out. So we went in a butchers shop and asked if they sold meat pies.
"Do you sell meat pies?"
"Aye"
"Two meat pies please"
"We only sell them on Thursdays"
hmmmmm
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by showaddydadito
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No, Rev, the *tune* is infectious. You were just the vector....
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by Will Harmon
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I have a bad chest and am off work! It is brightening up in Belfast, silver spear. bazouki dave is in newcastle, I used to live there for a while and i miss it!!
I am learning 'trip to athlone' from the danu cd, on the fiddle.
I am learning Brendan Tonra's on the whistle. I dont know why, but I want to learn the pipes and learning the whistle seems a good place to start!!! Well, it wont hurt , will it?
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by richrua
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I LOVE Danú's version of 'The Trip to Athlone'. Unfortunately nobody else seems to play that version at the sessions I've been to.
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by Pat Mustard
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Cool, wet, and raining here.
I am at work and we are having a slow day so far.
When I get off from work today, I have to go to the dentist for some torture. No, I am not looking forward to my visit to the dentist but it is a necessary evil.
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by fauxcelt
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I like dirges.
That's the thing about playing a box. You can roll out a dirge on caterpillar tracks over the flibbertydiddle music absolutely whenever you like, reducing its players to sullen resentment and morbid thoughts. I do not make too much of a habit of this - it's just nice to know I have it in my power...
The real thing ITM and Baroque have in common is shoals of dirges and death stuff - it ain't all fluffy toe-tapping Carolan-influencing musical fairy-dust...
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by nicholas
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ZZZZZ If you have looked this far U are more bored then me.........20 mins to home time.........work sucks today
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by Dphil
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@showaddydadito:
My memories of shopping in Scotland are distant - I haven't been there for a long time - and possibly affected by a tendency to exaggerate and incipient brain death, but they lead me to conclude that you struck comparatively lucky in Perth: at least you found out when you could buy meat pies *next* time. Unless they altered the day, that is, as soon as they'd told you.
My impression was that opening days / hours for each place of expected service or supply were decidedly few, and ordained in each town by the application of some local folk version of the Mayan Calendar or the Enigma Code. Their number was further eroded by local holidays and Scottish bank holidays, the dates of these being determined by the fact you were going to turn up on them unawares needing to buy food for a largish number of people.
To find a Scottish town with everything open and abounding in merchandise would have been a bit like coming upon Brigadoon / fairies at their revels / Greek goddesses bathing - a somewhat gob-smacking and apprehension-inducing encounter, possibly signifying the end of the world. I don't think I can remember such a thing.
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by nicholas
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The weather improved on Skye, except for on the summits of the Cuillins where it still appeared to suck so I curled up in front of a nice fire and did work for a while before heading down south.
The chippy in Tyndrum is happily open whenever I am passing through.
I listened to Gay, Sean, and Connor McKeown's Dusty Miller album and Matt Molloy, John Carty, and Arty McGlynn's Pathway to the Well album driving down and was yet again reminded of the utter awesomeness of those CDs. Brilliant stuff.
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by DrSilverSpear
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Actually, I imagine the pieman in showaddydadito's account sounding just like Private Frazer in "Dad's Army"...
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by nicholas
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In Finistère it's been drizzling all day and I couldn't see the mountains for the mist. However at least I didn't have to go to work or the dentist so I'll be thankful for small mercies
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by Bev in Brittany
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I thought it was Fitzroy these days. Blowing a gale here tonight with driving rain and an uncannily-high temperature of 17.5°C. Last night didn't go below 16.2°. I don't like it one little bit. Global summat or other I reckon.
# Posted on October 6th 2009 by Steve Shaw