And to think, the Williams family and Thomas (my middle name) didn't even get much registered until the 1200's!  Perhaps my roots were there on either end of the sword!  How about yours!  Also, my Fitzpatrick name on my mothers side goes way back to Kilkenny!  Apparantly that name is traced to Kilkenny as it's origin from that same time...about the same time as the Norman conquest.  Who knows? nobody knew how to write it down!  An iphone would have been helpful! lol!! Thanks! Paul <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td>From: <td>Horace Greeley <hgreeley@sonic.net> <tr valign=top> <td>To: <td>pianotech@ptg.org <tr valign=top> <td>Date: <td>01/18/2012 02:59 PM <tr valign=top> <td>Subject: <td>Re: [pianotech] Glencoe</table> <hr noshade> <tt> Hi, Paul, Here's a link to some information about the Glen Coe Massacre: </tt><a href=http://www.rampantscotland.com/features/glencoe.htm><tt>http://www.rampantscotland.com/features/glencoe.htm</tt></a><tt> 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@piano.plus.com> >To: pianotech@ptg.org >Date: 01/18/2012 01:28 PM >Subject: [pianotech] Glencoe > > > > >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 <</tt><a href=http://davidboyce.co.uk/blog.php><tt>http://davidboyce.co.uk/blog.php</tt></a><tt>></tt><a href=http://davidboyce.co.uk/blog.php><tt>http://davidboyce.co.uk/blog.php</tt></a><tt> > >Best regards, > >David. > >[attachment "Glencoe 1.jpg" deleted by Paul T Williams/Music/UNL/UNEBR] </tt>