Father Allan's Island

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I speak but for the alien — one with maybe a drop of the Highland blood in her. For such an one, to waylay the tune the first time it goes past is not so easy as it might be.
Yet to halt your singer, to turn him back, to make him in any way self-conscious, is enough to throw him off his way altogether. Having come by it with little thought, so soon as he begins to think, he will leave out something, put in something, take die high turn instead of the low, or the other way round, nor know he doe
...s it. Nor shall you help him out by tell- ing him he didn't do it that way before. . . .
"Instinct right, reflection wrong, When you get a man to sing a song," Father Allan used to say.
I was in luck, then, to be under the same roof as one of my best singers, and she always lilting at her work some one or another of the sixty-odd she was in train of giving me; what time, when she didn't know she was doing it that tuay, I was always listen- ing, always picking up another and another wee note to enrich what was already on paper.


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