Another detailed MusicBrainz instrument tree fleshed out - this time bagpipes/dūdas/gaida, etc etc… untangling different but similar instruments from around the world is very interesting and very complex, it turns out!
Time for another auld tune. Jack Lattin was once popular all across these islands. Composed in Ireland sometime in the early 1700s it quickly spread across the Irish Sea and appears in many music collections of the 18th century.
Well this was a random find in an Oban charity shop yesterday, a program for the 1981 Falkirk Tryst Bi-Centenary Piping Competition, signed on the back by eight of the participants.
It has a chronological history of the Highland Society of London's competitions from 1781 but no mention of bellows pipers not being allowed to compete or two drone pipes being discouraged. :)
And now the last of my 40 settings from the manuscript. I enjoyed creating pipe friendly settings, I can't say I enjoyed recording them. I don't think recording tunes that I am unfamiliar with does the tunes or my piping justice.
A quick play through of my setting of Unfortunate Jock from The Drummond Castle Manuscript, Book 1, dated 1737.
Right, after a week at carnival in Portugal and a week recovering it's time to get back to the auld tunes. This is another from the manuscript that was already in my repertoire although I've always played it as a standard reel without those semi-quaver runs.
A Ranting Highland Man from The Drummond Castle Manuscript, Book 1, dated 1737.
I arrived in our hot-desking office nice and early and got my window seat. Then someone arrived about 45 minutes later, sat behind me and placed his mechanical keyboard in front of his laptop keyboard.
HE HAS BEEN TYPING LOUDLY ALL DAY.
Is there a cone of silence for users of mechanical keyboards? The sound is even louder and more annoying than my screaming tinnitus. For this reason alone I reckon people should be able to work 100% remotely.
Frantic Feathers - The Snake Charmer - 2022 (thesnakecharmer1.bandcamp.com)
Kho gaya tha (i was lost)...