I have recorded some more Scottish tunes this weekend, all from Nigel Gatherer's site and all without touching an actual mandolin... This is a set of two slow(ish) jigs, The Hills Of Glenorchy and Walking The Floor, written by Pipe Major Jack Chisholm as a pipe jig. Played on 10-string mandolin/mandola (tuned CGDAE), mandocello and tenor guitar, using a cello part by Nigel: https://www.nigelgatherer.com/tunes/...lGO/HilGOc.pdf 10-string waldzither (CGDAE, combined mandolin/mandola tuning) Suzuki MC-815 mandocello Vintage Viaten tenor guitar https://youtu.be/698liJWensE Martin
Martin, you have posted wrong set here!
Thanks, John -- now corrected.
Well played again, that man! Two tunes we play a lot in our sessions around here, Martin. They can be played at quite a variety of tempos and are the sort of tunes that seem to adapt well to this. Great to see Nigel getting so much recognition on the SAW Group just now. He is such a powerful influence over here in Scotland.
Thanks, John. I think they go well together. As with the two strathspeys, I've been playing "Hills Of Glenorchy" for many years but "Walking The Floor" is new to me. Nigel describes Glenorchy as a "slow jig", although as you say it seems to be played at any tempo between dirge-like lament and blistering dance rave (check Ashley MacIsaac). I've played it with some drive but slow enough to preserve the shifting syncopations that make the tune. Martin