[pianotech] Glencoe

[Horace Greeley]

Hi, Paul,

Here's a link to some information about the Glen Coe Massacre:

http://www.rampantscotland.com/features/glencoe.htm

The seeds laid in the British Isles by the likes of Wm. I ("the 
Conqueror) and Henry II (Plantagenet) have continued to bear 
interesting fruit for some time.  Imagine, if Wm. had not been the 
"red-headed son", he might have been accepted as Duke of Normandy and 
stayed home instead of crossing over in 1066, Harold might have 
remained King of England, and the course of Western Civilization (or 
what passes for civilization) might have been completely different.

The connection is that Edward I (Plantagenet) was the person 
primarily responsible for setting in motion the forces that brought 
about things like the Glen Coe Massacre.

Sorry...it's a long way around the barn for that one.  The overall 
relevance is that one of the real gifts provided by this profession 
is that we have the opportunity to learn a great deal about many 
things as we poke along between appointments...or, dare I suggest 
it?...while tuning.  In the Western U.S., we're cut off from a good 
deal of this kind of thing because most of our overall cultural 
history is barely three hundred years old.  By the time the Glen Coe 
Massacre occurred, the history of the area was over a millennium old.

Kind regards.

Horace


At 12:27 PM 1/18/2012, you wrote:
>3 Hours?  It must have been a well paying gig!  I had a few long 
>drives in my day, but I cut it to 2.8 hours each way! Ha ha!  Which 
>massacre was this? Curious and not up to snuff on my English rants of olde.
>
>Best,
>Paul
>
>
>From: David Boyce <David at piano.plus.com>
>To: pianotech at ptg.org
>Date: 01/18/2012 01:28 PM
>Subject: [pianotech] Glencoe
>
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>
>I drove to a client in the Highland town of Fort WIlliam yesterday, 
>a three hour (each way) drive across Rannoch Moor and through 
>Glencoe, scene of an infamous massacre 320 years ago this month.
>
>Glencoe is a bleak place even in the hight of summer, but more so on 
>a grey January day.  One pic here, but check out the others on my 
>blog <http://davidboyce.co.uk/blog.php>http://davidboyce.co.uk/blog.php
>
>Best regards,
>
>David.
>
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