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Anselm Lingnau

Anselm Lingnau

Re: Playing for SCD

June 12, 2006, 11:14 a.m. (Message 45523, in reply to message 45518)

Steve Wyrick:

> Here in the San Francisco Branch the only musician I've encountered that
> plays without music for Scottish country dances is Alasdair Fraser, and
> even he is prone to forgetting the order of tunes in a set or jumping
> unexpectedly into a different but similar tune; it takes a good pianist to
> keep up with him!

I've been told some time ago (by Bill Zobel, who ought to know) that when 
Alasdair Fraser plays for a dance together with Muriel Johnstone, they have 
just a big sheet of music that gives the first bars of the various tunes to 
be played. Sigh.

Unfortunately as far as I know Muriel no longer subscribes to the list, so 
this is all hearsay.

Anselm
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