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***nigelgatherer*** · **RE: Borough Slow Session 13 January 2010**

Alistair mentioned Navvy On the Line - which we're going to be playing tonight. My version is at:

www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/tab/tab13/navvy.html

I've known this for many years, but I can't remember where I got it from. Probably Kerr's Merry Melodies. Alistair's one is slightly different, but it shouldn't matter a great deal. I didn't get around to adding an MP3 file yet, so apologies for that.

Eric Renshaw · 13-01-2010, 04:05 PM

(13-01-2010 03:55 PM)nigelgatherer Wrote: Alistair's one is slightly different, but it shouldn't matter a great deal. I didn't get around to adding an MP3 file yet, so apologies for that.

I've taken copies of both. I hope Alistair doesn't mind my saying this but I prefer your version since the endings of each part sound more 'hornpipish' than Alistair's version. Looking forward to hearing this tonight.

Any thoughts on Cammy's tune, by the way? I can quite likely track down a copy but I just wondered if you had seen a pdf or abc version on the web somewhere that I could immediately access?

George · **RE: Borough Slow Session 13 January 2010**

There's a .jpg of Cammie's tune here.

www.ehacoustics.com/heelie/cammie.jpg

Eric Renshaw · 13-01-2010, 05:00 PM

(13-01-2010 04:50 PM)George Wrote: There's a .jpg of Cammie's tune here.

<http://www.ehacoustics.com/heelie/cammie.jpg>

Excellent George. Very many thanks indeed. It will fit in neatly with Eilidh & Mark's Myspace recording on http://www.myspace.com/eilidhandmark

Best wishes, Eric

Jack Campin · 15-01-2010, 01:12 AM

Why so late?

The space is free much earlier.

I was there an hour before anybody else.

Eric Renshaw · 15-01-2010, 07:24 AM

(15-01-2010 01:12 AM)Jack Campin Wrote: Why so late?

The space is free much earlier.

I was there an hour before anybody else.

A fair number of the folk who attend the session go to classes at Boroughmuir which don't finish until around 8.45. Also 9-11ish seems to be pretty standard timing across folk sessions in the Edinburgh area.

alistair · 15-01-2010, 02:41 PM

(13-01-2010 04:05 PM)Eric Renshaw Wrote: I've taken copies of both. I hope Alistair doesn't mind my saying this but I prefer your version since the endings of each part sound more 'hornpipish' than Alistair's version. Looking forward to hearing this tonight.

Just to make clear that the ABC version of Navvie on the Line I posted seems to correspond pretty closely to the version played by a group called Oddfellas ( http://www.oddfellas.co.uk/ ) on a CD of theirs called "Odds and Ends", which a friend gave me for Christmas. (Some of the tracks from the CD are on the Oddfellas web site, though not that one.) It was a happy coincidence that Nigel featured (a slightly different version of) the tune at the Slow Session class before the session.

You are probably correct Eric that Nigel's version is more authentically "hornpipe" (and may indeed be closer to what the composer James Hill actually intended). I am just having a little trouble though unlearning the other one.

Eric Renshaw · 15-01-2010, 02:49 PM

(15-01-2010 02:41 PM)alistair Wrote: You are probably correct Eric that Nigel's version is more authentically "hornpipe" (and may indeed be closer to what the composer James Hill actually intended). I am just having a little trouble though unlearning the other one.

You could always play both, one after the other!

alistair · 26-05-2011, 09:52 AM

(13-01-2010 05:00 PM)Eric Renshaw Wrote:
(13-01-2010 04:50 PM)George Wrote: There's a .jpg of Cammie's tune here.

<http://www.ehacoustics.com/heelie/cammie.jpg>

Excellent George. Very many thanks indeed. It will fit in neatly with Eilidh & Mark's Myspace recording on http://www.myspace.com/eilidhandmark

Best wishes, Eric

That link has now been removed, George.
Cammie's tune is played regularly at the Tass Wednesday session, and I have recorded it there, but it would be good to have a copy of the score just to check I have picked it up right.
And, in relation to this for a while dormant thread, the Slow Session might have reverted to the Borough for one night only yesterday evening (26th May), except the manager did not respond in time to Nigel's phone enquiry.
Alistair

Eric Renshaw · 26-05-2011, 10:01 AM

I have attached a pdf copy.
Eric