| Some 60 samples from Britain and Ireland - diddling, jigging,
lilting, or, as the gypsies call it, 'tuning up', the Gaelic name being
'port-a-beul' - these are vocables used, without instruments, mainly for
dancing but also for dandling - or for bird-catching, using the sounds of
more than 15 types of birds - or for "keening", mourning the dead. The Highland
tinker pipers have their own notation language they call 'cantering' (Cantearachd)
- Duncan BURKE, Maggie CHAMBERS, Kitty GALLAGHER, Mary GILLIS, Maggie McDONAGH,
Henry McGREGOR, Frank McKEOWN, Kitty McLEOD, Joe MOLLOY, Mary MORRISON &
Jimmy STEWART |
