Yes Francis I do agree and everyone I've spoken to also.
It turned an excellent day into an unforgettable experience.
Regarding the wider debate I think that, to use Debbie Lawther's term
'pedestrian players' like myself need to hear playing at this standard to
know simply 'What the pipes should sound like'.
Neil
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From: "Francis Wood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2008 9:58 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: detatched/closed method
Adrian and Pauline playing duets at the Manchester Pipes Day last week.
The best musical experience of the year.
Those who were present will probably agree. Those who weren't, sadly
missed an example of piping at its finest.
Francis
On 20 Sep 2008, at 21:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Their unknown loss has been our gain.
Malcolm
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From: Adrian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: nsp <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 20:30
Subject: [NSP] detatched/closed method
I think I've just wasted nearly 30 years of playing and entering
competitions. All of the judges, to my knowledge, judged my playing on
the closed method as well as other things. Even Forster Charlton
metioned to me that I ran my notes together, many years ago, so he was
a believer in the closed method. It seems to me that the true sound of
the pipes will be lost because people wont spend the time to
play closed fingering and the associated tunes with variations.
Playing
a succesion of detached notes is a wonderful sound, when playing the
variations to a tune; they become something hypnotic, almost dronal.
I should have taked up the Irish pipes!
Adrian
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