John Wild

Lovely tune. Also known as a song. see this version by Nuala Kennedy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuyZWKq1GP4

This tune, under the title of The Market Town, appears in O'Neill's music of Ireland, with no attribution to a composer. I have added the composer name and the alternative title in my ABC notation files.

I recently purchased from there The Marshall Collections. this is described as "Six collections of music by William Marshall (1748 - 1833) of Fochabers, Moray, Scotland. This has 162 pages of music. It is a mixture of hornpipes, reels, jigs, march, reels, slow airs, and strathspeys. Good value at £20.95. This was with a soft cover, which is still strong. You can pay more for a copy with a hard cover. a fisrt run through gave a a short list of over 60 tunes. My idea had been to pick a top twenty!

The lowest note on the left side 4th row reads Bb on the diagram. Is that correct or a mistyping for Db?

Presumably Cumbernauld House pre-dates by a long way the cumbernauld new town which exists today. Would you know if Cumbernauld House is (was?) an actual building still standing?

As I stated earlier, I am not pursuing this for an argument. I have expressed my opinion and have nothing more to add.

I am not pursuing this for an argument. I will just say that my view is that a tenor-treble is normally the 56-button instrument consisting of the treble range + an extra half-octave at the lower end. If it does not have the full treble range then a different name is required. At one time it was speculated that it had been a treble converted to a tenor. That might have held if it was the only one known to have that configuration. But a second one is known. The one I had is number 9414. The 2nd one is number 9609, which came up for sale by Barleycorn on 2014. It looked identical apart from the colour of the bellows. I cannot now give more information about No.9414 as I sold it in 2020, when I acquired the aeola.

I have a Wheatstone 48-button aeola tenor. Middle C is in the same position relative to the thumb strap and finger rest that you would usually find on a treble. This means that the lower notes down to the next C are nearer the end of the instrument closest to the player's body. I previously owned a Crabb 48-button tenor. In this instrument the button layout looked like a treble. this meant that the note in the position of a treble's middle C was the F below middle C, i.e. the standard next button along the row. The note range of the two instruments was identical. See images below.

The 1st part sounds like a variation of the cuckoo's nest.

The monster probably ate it.🙂

A few months ago, I was invited to join with a singer to create a song with instrumental accompaniment. We had only met in a zoom meeting. The project was created remotely, with me recording my track, and sending it to the singer. The singer then recorded her vocals as a separate tracks. These were then combined by a sound engineer. It took a number of attempts to get it "right". Eventually we got there, and the result is available as a YouTube file. The soundtrack is matched to a number of photos. The song is called The wind at your heels. It is about sulky racing. A sulky is a type of small cart with a single seat for the driver. An example can be seen in one of the photos. Here is the link if you are minded to watch/listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4w3j7clV6U

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0020pff This is a link to a radio program called Sliced bread. It may provide some useful information. The basis of the program is to identify whether the selected product is the best thing since sliced bread, or only marketing B.S.

East Anglian Traditional Music Trust. Not the same organisation as SqueezEast. https://www.eatmt.org.uk/

Generally there would be no UK tax added. it would be the destination country which would apply import duties.

From your first question, I would understand that you can read music. In that case, you can play all kinds of music from the written music. There are tune books for the violin/fiddle, Northumbrian pipes, pipes in general, whistle, flute, harp and others. Take your pick for the tunes and the type of music, irrespective of the instrument a particular book might have been originally written for.