The Gathering

Was there any decision last week about whether people would meet at the Borough this Wed, (17th Feb) and if so what time?
Thanks, Nicola

8pm on, as I heard it.

Yes, Nicola - 8pm because there's no class at Boroughmuir. Remember: let everyone know what tunes you're going to play. You can each take turns if you like so eberyone gets a shout.

Play nice...

I'll bring along copies of "In Memory of Herbie MacLeod", a Jerry Holland tune transcribed by Nigel.
PDF attached.

How did it go? How many people were there? Any fights?

I didn't stay till the end but there were no obvious altercations.
Jack covered almost the full (recorder) range from great bass to sopranino, not to mention a tunable ocarina.
A mixture of old and new (to the session) tunes was played, including Jack's "Marion's Ticket", "FY gar rub her o'er with straw", "In Memory of Herbie MacLeod" and "Meeting of the Waters". I think there were about 9 players there at the high point ...

(18-02-2010 01:59 PM)alistair Wrote: [ -> ]Jack covered almost the full (recorder) range from great bass to sopranino

Higher than that - the smallest one I used was a garklein flotlein (an octave above a descant). It's so difficult to keep average-sized fingers out of each other's way on it that there are very few tunes I've worked out properly - "Hills of Glenorchy" happened to be one of them. Think of it as playing well above the snowline on Ben Dorain.

(18-02-2010 11:04 PM)Jack Campin Wrote: [ -> ]

(18-02-2010 01:59 PM)alistair Wrote: [ -> ]Jack covered almost the full (recorder) range from great bass to sopranino

Higher than that - the smallest one I used was a garklein flotlein (an octave above a descant). It's so difficult to keep average-sized fingers out of each other's way on it that there are very few tunes I've worked out properly - "Hills of Glenorchy" happened to be one of them. Think of it as playing well above the snowline on Ben Dorain.

Yes, Jack, I did notice you were playing "Hills of Glenorchy" on something very strange, but didn't know what it was called ... it certainly lives up to its "extremely small" description.