ronald.ellison’s one hundred and fifty-five comments

When accompanying a singer, the least intrusive method is to play in the gaps. Usually the singer sings a line and then there is a gap and then another line and so on. more…

Hi Kellie more…

That’s it, of course. The Wheels cha cha. Muscle twitching! more…

I went out for a break and found I had this as an ear worm. Still don’t know the title. more…

It needs a X:1 at the top to run in Easy ABC. The first part is definitely familiar but I was never any good with titles. Nice tune though. more…

I use Linux Mint 20.3 with the Cinnamon desk top. Easy ABC 1.3.8.6 works fine. With my previous installation of Mint 19, installing Easy ABC was tricky and I never got the sound to work. With the new version it worked right out of the box. more…

Traditional tunes usually have a fairly simple structure. A very common one is more…

Christy Taylor points out the inevitable links between Vikings and the Shetland Isles. It is known that they were able to reach and settle in Greenland. It is now generally accepted that they reached and at least attempted to settle in North America. more…

Dear Tamiko. Thank you for your reply and clarification. I do understand how translation resulted in my misunderstanding your writing. more…

I started reading the article in Fiddle Tamiko’s post on the Summary of folk music history of Ireland and the British Isles. Paragraph by paragraph in the Deep L translate page. I stopped reading when I got to the sentence; more…