Is a bit chuffed
Sep. 7th, 2007 10:53 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
capri0mniSo: earlier today, I was trying to find where I posted a story of mine so I could resubmit it to someone for an anthology.
Only problem was, I couldn't remember exactly when I'd written or posted it, and it wasn't popping out at me in the LJ archives.
So I got the idea to google "CapriUni" and "Story," in the hopes that the right LJ page would come up. And one of the first hits that came back was this one:
The Session >> Tunes >> The Storyteller (strathspey).
It wasn't what I was looking for, specifically. But I did write a song, a couple of years ago, called "The Storyteller." So I clicked the link to see if it was mine -- and it was.
My first thought was: "So that's a strathspey... I'd often wondered."*
And then I saw the detail factoid: "This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks." That's not a lot, perhaps, compared to other songs. But --
8 total strangers liked my song well enough to want to learn it... I think that's nifty!
*(I just know the word "strathspey" from the backs of Celtic album covers, and that it's put after the names of dance tunes just about as often as "jig," but I could never parse out the difference, by listening alone. I wrote the lyrics in the same meter as "Twas the Night Before Christmas," and just made the length of the notes match that. So I guess that's what a strathspey is.)
Only problem was, I couldn't remember exactly when I'd written or posted it, and it wasn't popping out at me in the LJ archives.
So I got the idea to google "CapriUni" and "Story," in the hopes that the right LJ page would come up. And one of the first hits that came back was this one:
The Session >> Tunes >> The Storyteller (strathspey).
It wasn't what I was looking for, specifically. But I did write a song, a couple of years ago, called "The Storyteller." So I clicked the link to see if it was mine -- and it was.
My first thought was: "So that's a strathspey... I'd often wondered."*
And then I saw the detail factoid: "This tune has been added to 8 tunebooks." That's not a lot, perhaps, compared to other songs. But --
8 total strangers liked my song well enough to want to learn it... I think that's nifty!
*(I just know the word "strathspey" from the backs of Celtic album covers, and that it's put after the names of dance tunes just about as often as "jig," but I could never parse out the difference, by listening alone. I wrote the lyrics in the same meter as "Twas the Night Before Christmas," and just made the length of the notes match that. So I guess that's what a strathspey is.)
