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Thread #51138   Message #1463279
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
16-Apr-05 - 10:42 PM
Thread Name: The Guitar and Irish Traditional Music
Subject: RE: The Guitar and Irish Traditional Music
One important qualification: that's material that we now think of as "traditional"; at the time most of it probably wasn't, though old songs were already being gentrified in Scotland, something that didn't happen in England or Ireland until quite a bit later. The guitar was a fashionable parlour instrument, not the mass-appeal thing it eventually became. It probably enjoyed a vogue in Irish polite society too, but that isn't something I know about.