Friday 20 March 2009

As a welcome break from working on the Tiger Lillies stuff, Iain and Mairi came over this morning to see if we could get harpsichord to work with some pipe tunes. And the verdict is ... that it's pretty good. Harpsichord and smallpipes with a low A chanter is particularly cool. Of course it makes sense: both instruments have no dynamic range, so you have to play lots of wee twiddly notes to make it sound interesting.  Fortunately Mairi is playing fiddle and viola in the middle so there is a real musical instrument in there somewhere holding it all together.

Meanwhile in the back garden, the plum tree is convinced that it is spring.

Sad news of the day is that my beloved 1971 Cannon GasMiser fire in the other room (a design classic) is now beyond repair, after two Scottish Gas engineers gave it their best shot. Aw.