I believe Chris Ormston plays on a Peter Gabriel album, but I haven't chased it
up yet.
An NSP player is credited on Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn, but apparently didn't
actually appear on the album because his reed broke and some UP player, er,
played instead (information from Chris O).
c
The NSP tracks I recorded with Peter Gabriel never made it onto the
album, but the first track features me playing GHB, digitally re-tuned
to A and put through a Lesley unit (the great big fan used to give the
distinctive tremolo effect on Hammond organs!).
NSP DO feature on
Hi All,
Ian mentioned Bakewell Tarts.
Without wishing to be in any way pedantic (having read and enjoyed
Jamie Allan's latest contribution to the NPS magazine) please allow me
to offer a warning to potential visitors to Bakewell about a local
tradition.
Derbyshire people seem to take mild
In case anyone's interested, on ebay now, the Highland pipes that were
played at the olymic games opening ceremony, allegedly!
As some of you may remember, these pipes can only play about 4
different tunes, including, we seem to remember Scotland the Brave, The
Rowan Tree, and
And what type of knife should be used to cut them - rusty, risty or
busty??? According to the ancient scrolls. or
was it the cup and ring marks at Routin Linn..
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 13:25:33 +0100
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
From: [EMAIL
As played by Team GHB???
Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:47:38 +
To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [NSP] olympic games bagpipes
In case anyone's interested, on ebay now, the Highland pipes that
were
played at the olymic games opening ceremony,
As someone with a long connection with Bakewell, I can confirm this.
The real thing is a pudding. Anything called a Bakewell tart, or
including the word 'cherry', however tasty and well crafted it may be
in its own right, can be guaranteed as a 100% copper bottomed fake. The
real thing is
Or, in practical terms, a few bottles of good brandy, a fine woman and a
good cigar.
maybe enough left over for a Bakewell pudding :)
Colin Hill
PS
Thanks for that link. Invaluable to those of us who remember threepenny
bits, silver sixpences and half crowns and, in my case (just) farthings.
Thanks for the link.
What I was really getting at was comparing those prizes to typical
modern ones!
I must apologise for the misprint. 3gns is £3.15. When I started work
will still billed in them.
Dru
On 4 Dec 2008, at 17:09, Gibbons, John wrote:
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