strathspey@strathspey.org:27526

mlbrown

Re: Island CD Survey

Sept. 26, 2001, 1:30 a.m. (Message 27526, in reply to message 27510)

No fair! I was thinking that is was bad enough having to look through the 97
pre-recorded CDs in our collection to come up with a top 3, and then you
include the privately recorded ones! (OK, so you weren't the first, but I
haven't got the other privately recorded CDs that were mentioned)

Anyway its far too late for me to go through now, although I suspect I would
have to include a Neil Barron CD because I use its generic Reels and Jigs
for anything I don't have the right tune for.
I also suspect I will have to select one of the Music Makars CDs, but I
don't know which one - and that will only leave me with one more -
decisions! decisions!

By the way, I only have one recording for Belle of Bon Accord - except that
the proper tune is "Bonnie Lass", which is the tune used for the St John
River, and I could get a home made CD with that on it! (Only I couldn't
remember that last week when I was getting the CDs out for a dance last
Saturday).

My son asked how many of the 100 plus CDs I actually used, and I was
pleasantly surprised to find that for an 18 dance programme I used a
different CD for each dance, and even then some of my favourites weren't
used, so it looks like I have to select from at least 30.

Part of the trouble is of course that there are some dances that have
"definitive" recordings - Reel of the Royal Scots - Bobby Brown / Miss
Milligan's Strathspey - Ian MacPhail / Bratach Bana - Andrew Rankine / Music
Makars - Music Makars / The Sailor - Berkely Players  ,    and a lot of
these tracks are only on LPs & private CD recordings. Do I allow my liking
for the dance to influence my choice of recording? (I told you it was too
late!!!)

Malcolm