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  1. Deep soft snow today. Calm. Cold. Drifting mists. Trees appearing and disappearing. Magical, mysterious. #snow #winter #strathspey

  2. How the light changes. Photos taken 90 minutes apart this afternoon. #snow #strathspey #cairngorms

  3. Deep soft snow, blizzards, snowshoes today for local 'walk'. Very hard going to not get very far. But satisfying. #snow #winter #Strathspey #scottishhighlands

  4. Out in the snow again, this time on skis. Flat light and drifting clouds gave a soft, slightly unreal feel to the landscape. #snow #xcski #strathspey

  5. Out in the snow again, this time on skis. Flat light and drifting clouds gave a soft, slightly unreal feel to the landscape. #snow #xcski #strathspey

  6. Out in the snow again, this time on skis. Flat light and drifting clouds gave a soft, slightly unreal feel to the landscape. #snow #xcski #strathspey

  7. Out in the snow again, this time on skis. Flat light and drifting clouds gave a soft, slightly unreal feel to the landscape. #snow #xcski #strathspey

  8. Out in the snow again, this time on skis. Flat light and drifting clouds gave a soft, slightly unreal feel to the landscape. #snow #xcski #strathspey

  9. A wet few days on the Burma Road/Kinrara Estate. Not much in the way of views high up but some dramatic clouds over Strathspey from lower down. #Strathspey #cairngorms

  10. Autumn is fading into winter but there is still a last glorious flourish of colour on the trees. #autumn #trees #cairngorms #strathspey

  11. Heavy snow this morning, slowly clearing during the afternoon, mountains appearing at dusk. #Cairngorms #strathspey #snow

  12. A Strathspey I wrote in 1997 and named after Glen Lonan, long before I found myself living at the entrance to it.

    bagpie.net/the-glen-lonan-stra

    #Strathspey #TradMusic #ScottishMusic #Scotland

  13. Hauling food up to the house on an old plastic sledge today. Haven't done that in a while! #snow #Strathspey

  14. Okay, here's a curly #music sourcing problem… my mother recently started getting back into #ScottishCountryDancing after a long hiatus, and is now teaching it here in Brisbane.

    It came up in her group that there's a dance they haven't done they'd like to do: "The Road to the Isles".

    scottish-country-dancing-dicti

    The music for this was composed by Pipe Major John McLellan DCM… There are a few versions of it floating around, but for the dance (a #strathspey) which is danced with four couples; the music needs to more-or-less "repeat" 4 times.

    I did find a #MIDI version of it here: whitestick.co.uk/midi.html -- which hosts a version sequenced by Barry Taylor.

    I managed to get Rosegarden + timidity + alsa + pipewire playing well enough together to get it playing and possibly manipulate it.

    I also managed to get timidity on the command line to render the MIDI file to a (not great sounding) MP3.

    I figure I can possibly edit this file to get what this group is after… but I wonder if someone knows where to buy/download… a suitable copy that someone has performed and recorded? Something performed by real musicians, rather than a MIDI file that's been ham-fistedly edited by a software geek is likely going to be a better option.

    Thanks in advance.