The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #51259   Message #784522
Posted By: Thomas the Rhymer
15-Sep-02 - 03:10 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Over the Hills and Far Away / O'er the...
Subject: RE: O'er the Hills
Hi All! Sorry I didn't plug in to this fine discussion sooner, but I had a pesky virus and full system failure, which compounded my confusions...

I wonder about the tempo... would one speed up the tempo to play it as a piper? or would the rather slow tune be played with feeling and fullness? I imagined it at double speed, and it feels fine as a reel... Would this be traditionally (politically) correct?

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