A couple of weeks ago, I was in Sweden piping at the opening of the Archaeomusica exhibition. Most of the pipes in my case were reproductions of archaeological finds. In 2008, a 40,000-year-old vulture bone with 5 finger holes was unearthed in Hohle Fels cave, southwestern Germany. On 8 April this year, I made a reproduction from a Gyps fulvus radius bone kindly provided […]
Month: June 2016
Canntaireachd Project
I’m going to do this again. I think this project is worth supporting. All the work we are doing to help everyone to understand better these historical documents and traditions requires effort, and usually costs money for those who embark upon them. Thomas Zoeller and Allan MacDonald are working hard to get an instructional project […]
Pibroch and poetry
The more I look into Gaelic poetry, the more convinced I become that this is the most valuable approach for anyone wanting to get inside the head of pibroch composers. It offers rich evidence of cultural context, shining light on things otherwise impossible to understand. Today I found the words ceol bec ∙i∙ cronan… i n-aith[fh]egad in moir (‘small music, that is, […]