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Iain Boyd

Iain Boyd

RE: Ask and Ye shall receive - Perhaps!

May 9, 2006, 10:55 p.m. (Message 45212, in reply to message 45200)

Frequently, a track with the required tune is for a well known dance
which can not be used because the dancers will complain - "We can't
dance to that - the music is putting us off." - or some such comment.
   
  Also, a track may have the required tune or a suitable alternative
  but the rest of the tunes (although good) are not suitable for the
  dance. I frequently have this problem when trying to recommend
  'suitable recorded music' for my dances.
   
  Regards,
   
  Iain Boyd
   
   
  

mlamontbrown <xxxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote:
  Actually, it gets a bit more complicated than that.

I have some very good recordings of Sets of Reels / Jigs etc, but the first thing I
do when selecting CDs is to see if I have a recording for the dance (even if it
hasn't actually got a named tune!). So I finish up using what might be an inferior
recording, just because someone bothered to make a recording for a particular dance. 

I suppose I could go through all my dances to see if any of them have recommended
tunes, and then check to see if that was the tune used on a particular recording -
but I won't! I will continue to search my CD database to see if the dance has a
recording, and use it if there is one.

Malcolm

Malcolm L Brown
York (UK)






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