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pargoletta

A Venture Paid Off

Oct 15, 2008 21:13

The other nice thing that happened at contra dance a couple of weeks ago (besides winning a prize for style) was meeting a nice, non-skeevy boy who was also a good dancer. He gave me a standing invitation to a Renaissance dance class that meets on Wednesday nights. Wednesdays are my busy days (two seminars), so I told him that I would probably ( Read more... )

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valmora October 20 2008, 00:57:53 UTC

ON TOTAL TANGENT: My mother was wondering if you knew of any place to look for notes on the history of bagpipe tuning (she has heard a rumour that bagpipes used to be tuned to concert pitch and was curious to see where she could look at the veracity of such a claim).

Sorry to be of the exploitation. =D

How did dance go tonight? I hope you weren't late!

pargoletta October 20 2008, 03:23:47 UTC

I got to my dance class precisely on time, at the very stroke of six. Not late at all. It was a tiny class, since many people were away doing other things, so we did three-person dances. Fun fun fun

Bagpipes . . . shall I assume that your mother is referring specifically to Scottish bagpipes?

Anyway, here's what the keyword search at the university library called up:

Baines, Anthony. 1960. Bagpipes. Occasional Papers on Technology 9. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Cheape, Hugh. 2000. The Book of the Bagpipe. Lincolnwood, IL: Contemporary Books.

Donaldson, William. 2005. Pipers: A Guide to the Players and Music of the Highland Bagpipe. Edinburgh: Birlinn.

Adding Google Books into the mix, I find:

Manson, William Laird. 1901. The Highland Bagpipe; Its History, Literature, and Music, with Some Account of the Traditions, Superstitions, and Anecdotes Relating to the Instrument and its Tunes. Paisley, London: A. Gardner.

Also, there is an entry on the bagpipes in the New Grove Dictionary of Musical ( ... )