This is a set of two strathspeys, both written by James Scott Skinner (1843-1927), "The Strathspey King". Played on 10-string mandolin/mandola (tuned CGDAE), using a setting by Nigel Gatherer: https://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/...cHay/McHay.pdf 10-string waldzither (CGDAE, combined mandolin/mandola tuning) Vintage Viaten tenor guitar Suzuki MC-815 mandocello https://youtu.be/vBG1HIzuPjE Martin
Nice set of Strathspeys, Martin. That ten-stringer sounds good on those tunes and your tenor backing fits well. I can hear those Scotch snaps so beloved of our fiddler friends coming in to both tunes. Well played.
A fine sounding set, Martin. Is the basic strathspey-rhythm trlplet-like? So, the dotted eighthnotes consist of two triplet eighths, not three sixteenth notes?
Thanks, John and Christian. Christian: depends on how snappy you like those Scotch snaps. These particular tunes dive in and out of triplet runs repeatedly in a quite hornpipe-like manner, so it's hard not to play at least implicitly a triplet rhythm through the snaps although they are best played as short as you can manage rather than just swung triplets. Just to throw you off-balance, MacKenzie Hay also has a phrase of straight eighths... I've been playing MacKenzie Hay for many years, one of the first tunes I learned from Nigel's site fifteen years ago or so, but The Kirrie Kebbuck is new to me and goes well with it. Martin
Great sound out of your transformed waldzither, Martin. The transition between both strathspeys is this smooth – without the title I had taken it as one tune.
