Hi Colin,
Pete asked me to make left handed chanter for him and I have made one or two since I have been making pipes including tying the stocks in the other side of the bag. Colin R -----Original Message----- From: colin <cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk> To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:59 Subject: [NSP] Re: Reel of Tullochgorum Interesting.? I learned tin whistle by ear back in the 60's and play "left handed" - right hand nearest mouth purely because that seemed right for me (I am right handed).? When I got my first set of pipes (simple chanter), I played that "left handed" as well which caused some fun when I had my 7-key chanter made and couldn't figure out how to reach the keys.? There were few resources on playing the pipes back then (although Bill Hedworth loaned me a copy of a booklet which I forget the title of now - and which I had to copy longhand as it was out of print).? It took a while to reverse things (still play the whistle left handed though).? Am I right in thinking that my old friend (while he lived in Liverpool) the late Pete Rowley made his own left-handed set?? Colin Hill? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philip Gruar" <phi...@gruar.clara.net>? To: <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>? Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:21 AM? Subject: [NSP] Re: Reel of Tullochgorum? ? >? > Chris wrote:? >? >? >> More puzzling is the painting (Dutch 17th C) of a bellowspiper in >> Carbisdale Castle / Yoof Hostel, which is normal except that the piper >> has his right hand on the top end of the chanter and left on the bottom >> IIRR.? >> chirs? >? > Before standardised music lessons and printed tutors, wind instruments > were quite often played right hand at the top, even in the world of art > music. Where there is an off-set finger hole or a key for the bottom > little finger, as on the recorder, two holes were drilled so the player > could do it either way round and fill the redundant hole with wax, or the > key was made with a "swallow-tail" touch.? > More recently, it seems to have been quite a fashion for Irish flute > players to hold the flute "the wrong way round" too - shows they are > proper traditional musicians unaffected by classical training; of course > you can do that with a wooden open-holed flute but not with an > orchestral-style one.? >? >? >? > 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. --
