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from Edward Bunting, Ancient Music of Ireland (Dublin 1840)
Irish caslúth spoken by Gráinne Yeats Scottish Gaelic cas-luath spoken by Tony Dilworth Click the play button to hear it spoken. help Casluth is one of those curious figures in which every note is immedieately stopped, with none left ringing. Leith leagadh is another example; it uses different fingers to stop each string, whereas casluth uses the ones which have just struck their strings to stop the same strings. Simon Chadwick 2008 Casluth - Returning actively Another compound with lúth: as is the case with barrlúth, we cannot be sure of the exact implication of the first element. Bunting, however, clearly relates it to the verb cas, 'turn, twist'. The word actively is doubtless a misprint for activity, for the English on p.31 is 'Returning activity'. On that page also Bunting notes the form Castluith "from the information of Arthur O'Neill, &c.": possibly a link was felt to exist between this 'shake' and the adjective casta, 'twisted, complicated', which is the past participle of cas. Colm Ó Baoill 2002
Click the play button to hear it spoken. help
Casluth is one of those curious figures in which every note is immedieately stopped, with none left ringing. Leith leagadh is another example; it uses different fingers to stop each string, whereas casluth uses the ones which have just struck their strings to stop the same strings.
Simon Chadwick 2008
Casluth - Returning actively
Another compound with lúth: as is the case with barrlúth, we cannot be sure of the exact implication of the first element. Bunting, however, clearly relates it to the verb cas, 'turn, twist'. The word actively is doubtless a misprint for activity, for the English on p.31 is 'Returning activity'. On that page also Bunting notes the form Castluith "from the information of Arthur O'Neill, &c.": possibly a link was felt to exist between this 'shake' and the adjective casta, 'twisted, complicated', which is the past participle of cas.
Colm Ó Baoill 2002
