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Thread #61825   Message #1924514
Posted By: GUEST,leeneia
02-Jan-07 - 12:16 AM
Thread Name: Origins: 'The Methlick Style' Slow Fiddle Air
Subject: RE: Origins: 'The Methlick Style' Slow Air
The link to the ABC site didn't work for me, so I found the ABC myself and copied it. Here it is:

X:516
T:Methlick Style, The
B:The Caledonian Companion, Hardie
Z:Nigel Gatherer
N:Simplified - grace notes removed
M:6/8
L:1/8
K:Eb
B, | E2e G2e | E2c    BGE    | BGc BGE | GFE      C2D      |
    E2c C2A | B2G    A,2c   | B>cB AGF | G z | g3   f3   | edc    c2d    | eBc BGE | GFF      F3       |
    g3   f3   | fg=a   b2g    | fdg fdc | B3-      B3       |
    g3   f3   | edc    c2d    | eBc BGE | GFE      C2D      |
    EcB AGF | G
Not being an ABC user, I went to the concertina.net tune-o-tron and converted the ABC to sticks and dots. I look forward to seeing how this tune sounds.


re: "I would sell my soul to the devil to be able to play that tune the way Alastair does."

Don't say that, Cruiser! The devil always manages to keep his promises and break them at the same time. For example, you might be enabled to play the tune the way Alistair does, but then everyone you know would start saying things like, "Your style is so derivative. You sound like a sedulous imitator of Alistair Hardie." You'd be utterly chagrined, but you would lose your soul anyway.

There would be no hoping for a referee's call to save you at the last inning, as in Damn Yankees.
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What do you suppose "Methlick Style" refers to? I have never seen the word style in a tune name before.