Yes, Mark, it's not wholly an improvisation (I wish!) and it's just about there as a composition. The improvised additions are what stretched it to 8 minute mark, and some really serendipitous things happened during them!!! Sometimes this approach works, but I've got to be really on song (I practised scales for a week...).

There are a series of themes which have been rattling in my head for years, and the main figure which cuts in fully at 2:30 was originally a (slower) jig written by me for soprano ("alto") recorder about 1987...with a bit of luck all the demons are now exorcised...

I'll put the single piano line (input) line up shortly. I'm currently cleaning and arranging, so that the viola ("fiddle") and piano can complement rather than copy.

Regards
Tim Fatchen
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