Plum-headed parakeet: Questions for Helen Harrison, Head of Fettes, Fettes Community, Edinburgh Scotland regarding university admissions' questions for Fettes' students outside of Scotland, England and the British Isles and World Univ & Sch * * * Bagpiping - Scottish small piping - and the NEW Sri Lanka World University and School - in the Sinhala language

Ceol Mor refers to Piobaireachd - and means literally "Great Music"

I appreciate all these Youtube examples of canntaireachd (literally meaning 'chanting') as innovative explorations of this old form of Scottish music-making (waulking songs could be a form of this too). 

Appreciating too staying 'free' - and exploring a kind of 'freedom' in an ongoing way - with regards to light / traditional / classical piping music, (even while I learn from Yo Yo Ma re technique "The whole idea is service: You use your technique to transcend it, in order to serve ..." and in Ma / Marsalis's "Guidelines for practicing a musical instrument" - http://scottmacleod.com/GuidelinesPracticingMusicalInstrument.htm.  While Canntaireachd can involve technique too, I'm keeping transcendence in mind (a lot) :)

Am appreciating, too, that Sal Khan's 'mastery learning' definition in a zendesk URL - https://khanacademy.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360030753412-Why-Mastery-Learning-by-Sal-Khan - (re a kind of meditation aspect of piping too)

On with the MSR :) Rhona Lightfoot would be a good person to learn light music canntaireachd - 

Traditional Celtic Song - Lal, lal, ars’ A’Chailleach
https://youtu.be/eVA1x0I_UoM

Musical cheers, Scott

Notes: 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster_Scots_people


Humans settled around the Giant’s Causeway in the 19th century, but the site is now uninhabited. It does, however, attract some 300,000 tourists annually. Deriving its name from local folklore, it is fabled to be the work of giants, particularly of Finn MacCumhaill (MacCool), who built it as part of a causeway to the Scottish island of Staffa (which has similar rock formations) for motives of either love or war.

https://www.britannica.com/place/Giants-Causeway

The Scottish side of the Causeway

"The story of an ancient Causeway linking Ireland and Scotland is actually genuine from a geological perspective. Smaller scale basalt formations belonging to the same lava flow also exist in Scotland at Fingal's Cave on the isle of Staffa and in nearby Ulva, both in the Inner Hebrides.
The hexagonal formations of Fingal's Cave, on the Scottish island of Staffa, were created by the same lava flow that created the Giant's Causeway across the sea on the Irish coast
The hexagonal formations of Fingal's Cave, on the Scottish island of Staffa, were created by the same lava flow that created the Giant's Causeway across the sea on the Irish coast"

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Folktale of an Irish-Scottish causeway

The intriguing nature of the Causeway's polygonal blocks, coupled with the existence of similar formations across the sea in the west of Scotland, inspired a wealth of myths and legends in ancient times.

According to tradition, Irish warrior Fionn mac Cumhaill (anglicised as Finn McCool) built the causeway so he could walk to Scotland to fight a giant called Benandonner.

Different versions of the legend exist, with the most prominent stating that Benandonner crossed the causeway first and started looking for Fionn. As the giant was much larger than the warrior, Fionn's wife came up with the ingenious plan to dress her husband like a baby. When Benandonner came to Fionn's house and saw the size of the supposed baby, the giant was terrified at the thought of how huge the father would be. Benandonner ran back home, destroying the causeway so he would not be followed by Fionn.

The myth linking Fionn mac Cumhaill with the Giant's Causeway gained international success after Scottish poet James Macpherson published his Ossian poems in the 18th century. Ossian's poems were translated into several languages and influenced the works of many European writers of the time."

https://www.celticcountries.com/travel/259-giants-causeway-unesco-world-heritage-site