There's serious amounts of preparation going on here for next week's concerts. I'm excited about the dance band stuff - I've no idea what it will sound like, but I really want to find out.

I had an interesting chat with Hilary Hahn in Dundee last night - she was saying that one of the biggest adjustments she has to make when playing chamber music rather than concertos, is having to fit in with the equal temperament of the piano. One day someone's going to realise that equal temperament just isn't much use for tonal music.

I'd wondered why Burns included Old King Cole in the Scots Musical Museum - but some traditions have it that the Welsh king Coel Hen (or old Cole) died when defeated by the Scots and Picts in Ayrshire, and Kyle was named after him. So it makes perfect sense.