Dear Richard,
Thanks for the support and fair assessment of what happened at the Monday meeting. I am afraid that Barry has his own axe to grind and cross to bear?and in trying to support his idea I have fallen foul of his antagonism against me again when I was trying to build a bridge between him and myself. The original intention of the Monday meeting when I initiated it thirty years ago now was to use it as a group instructional session as in the workshops that are part of the current pipng courses and I still see that as part of the reason for having the Monday meeting. The numbers attending these meetings vary throughout the year and this last meeting was most likely affected by the aftermath of the flooding and being in a new venue. If we attract ten percent of the local population of about two hundred pipers this works out over the year what we get to our meetings on both the Monday and the Saturday and is not a bad turnout. Colin R -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 23:22 Subject: [NSP] Re: solo vs. group playing Hello All, In respect of the postings by Colin and Barry: I really don't want to get involved in what is clearly a fairly fundamental and personal disagreement, but I was at the Morpeth meeting last night and I feel I need to clarify something. Colin offered the opportunity for solo playing; the offer was accepted by consent of the group and only those who wanted to do so did in fact play. There was no pressure whatsoever to play, and that was completely clear to everyone. I thought the offer was a fair one, and Colin also made it clear from the outset that no criticism would be made. The offer was such that I was motivated to play, although I would normally shun of the idea of solo or competitive playing as I would shun a specimen of Rattus Rattus who had just stepped ashore and announced that he had a few boils and a bit of a cough. One person specifically asked for comment, before playing, and explained their reason for doing so. Th! e subsequent comment was constructive, fairly given and carefully justified. The rest of those who played received nothing but uncritical acceptance and tacit encouragement for playing. Richard See your new look Tiscali Homepage - http://www.tiscali.co.uk ___________________________________________________ To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html ________________________________________________________________________ AOL Email goes Mobile! You can now read your AOL Emails whilst on the move. Sign up for a free AOL Email account with unlimited storage today. --
