{"id":1269,"date":"2015-03-21T09:42:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-21T09:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/?p=1269"},"modified":"2015-03-21T09:43:14","modified_gmt":"2015-03-21T09:43:14","slug":"1269","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/2015\/03\/21\/1269\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Fiddler&#8217;s Hand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1272\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Jim-Book1.jpg\" alt=\"Jim-Book\" width=\"425\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Jim-Book1.jpg 425w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Jim-Book1-300x223.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Jim-Book1-402x300.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sandy Bells\u2019 (Forest Road, Edinburgh) is a pub where traditional music happens regularly. Away from the fast tunes and <em>craic<\/em> at the back of the room, there is often serious discussion, sharing and knowledge exchange (as well as flyting and debate) to be found among close-knit groups gathered closer to the bar. Catching up there with my old pal Jim Gilchrist this Friday, I was d\u00a0elighted and astounded to find him produce, from a plastic bag, an old, original copy of a Scottish fiddlers\u2019 manuscript tune book. Written in various hands it appears to represent a good sample of the popular fiddle music of the early twentieth century in a place, as yet, not known but certainly in Southern Scotland.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Jim-Book-21.jpg\" alt=\"Jim-Book-2\" width=\"425\" height=\"317\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Jim-Book-21.jpg 425w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Jim-Book-21-300x223.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/files\/2015\/03\/Jim-Book-21-402x300.jpg 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 425px) 100vw, 425px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Any old tune book is of\u00a0significance\u00a0as it brings insights into not just repertory but also of popular taste, creativity and musical interests.\u00a0 Manuscript tune books are highly important. Many, like this one, contain popular tunes taken down from printed collections, but also contain unique material that never found its way into commercially produced anthologies. I look forward to playing the tunes and to writing about the collection here in detail in due course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sandy Bells\u2019 (Forest Road, Edinburgh) is a pub where traditional music happens regularly. Away from the fast tunes and craic at the back of the room, there is often serious discussion, sharing and knowledge exchange (as well as flyting and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/2015\/03\/21\/1269\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1269"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1269\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk\/revival-fiddle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}