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***nigelgatherer*** · (This post was last modified: 11-12-2011 11:19 AM by nigelgatherer.)

The Periwig

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I first learned this tune from a recording of the folk group Ossian. It’s an old Scottish reel first published in Capt Fraser’s “Airs and Melodies Peculiar to the Highlands and Isles of Scotland” (1815), where an anecdote is told of a Mr Fraser of Culduthel who, in the company of a venerable olf clergyman, couldn’t resist teasing him by tickling him under his large wig with a blade of corn. The minister, imagining an earwig or a spider rush to the fire to shake his wig out; he lost hold of it and it fell in. Too fat to rescue it, it burned and almost suffocated the whole company. The “real” name of the tune is said to be The Fry’d Periwig.

Tosh Marshall · 21-11-2010, 02:12 PM

I missed this because I could only see Pretty Little Cat..........I'll get to work on it.....

Tosh Marshall · 24-11-2010, 07:15 AM

Well I had a bash and I know I need to work at my trebles! Great tune and something to keep working on.... and I think Marquis of Tullybardine has some nice trebles in it, so I'll work at that as well ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x71udZ__BQU

harrywhohaa · 24-11-2010, 02:00 PM

(24-11-2010 07:15 AM)Tosh Marshall Wrote: Well I had a bash and I know I need to work at my trebles! Great tune and something to keep working on.... and I think Marquis of Tullybardine has some nice trebles in it, so I'll work at that as well ! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x71udZ__BQU

Tosh, that sounds great. Your playing sounds to me to be getting much faster and cleaner

Tosh Marshall · 24-11-2010, 09:48 PM

Thanks Harry, it's getting better to a point. I need to take a little more care and work at my trebles! All in good time though. I'm better at some things and seem to go backwards with others, but the main thing is I'm having fun and as long as it is like that I'm happy!!!!!