The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #121939   Message #2707664
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
24-Aug-09 - 06:11 PM
Thread Name: The re-Imagined Village
Subject: RE: The re-Imagined Village
How about telling me to leave England for another Walkabout, S - is that a "very English" thing, too?

No indeed - stick around, old fruit - only if you do, kindly do so with the open mind of the trained anthropologist; look, listen and (hopefully) learn.

...but "very English" - there's hope there, though...

There is hope for us all, WAV - even for the recalcitrant buffoon you portray yourself as in your writings. Were you to ony but humble yourself long enough to partake of the cultural wonders of the country in which you have chosen as your home - and what wonders they are! Infinite wonders which this thread has barely touched upon!

you may soon trade in that Welsh crwth of yours for an English cittern and a starling feather!..

Never presume to tell another person what they should, or indeed should not, be playing - you oppress my individual freedom by doing so. FYI, my Welsh Crwth is actually a hypothetical Medieval Northern-European bowed-lyre built for me, circa 1987, by a Canadian master harp-builder based in Inverness. It may be one-of-a-kind but it nevertheless exists - unlike your English Cittern which is a figment of your malnourished imagination, starling feathers and all. In our Fylde sets this year Rapunzel & I will be featuring several Traditional English Folk Songs with accompaniments arranged for 5-string banjo & crwth.

On watching Bell Bottom George just now, which we recorded earlier. A rare slab of Vintage Englishness, ukulele & all, and some choice old footage of Fleetwood to boot!