The friends came over and we played Irish music with flute, recorder, harp, guitar and percussion.

We did "The Dancing Master" a good many times because just as one person got used to it, another person came in and had to learn it. I don't know how it came up, but I remarked that if you play an Irish dance backwards, you see where 20th-century composers got their themes. (You can't usually call them melodies.)

I should have mentioned that we were using tranparencies. So we turned it upside-down and played it, then turned it over and played it. The first way sounded most like the 20th C. Playing it turned-over was hard for me on guitar, because I had to look at the notes going forward but the chords going backward i.e., from right to left inside a measure.

Then we played a number that came from the Mudcat. It is a poem by Sir Walter Scott about a wandering harper. I had put it to music. It was a big hit, especially the part that threatens that the baron's family will never thrive unless he's good to harpers.

Snacks followed, then we finished up with Si Beag, Si Mhor.

That doesn't sound like many pieces, but we did a lot with the three of them.