Well spoken, Mel. Thanks!
Daphne
On 13 Mar 2009, at 10:43, Mel Leggett wrote:
Hi Alan,
Yes the evening playaround was good, and so too were the all the other
sessions and evening extensions when the music started to hum, but
PLEASE don't reduce the tuition; the four slots are such a
stimulating, informative, enjoyable, opportunity to look at different
aspects of the music and technique and playing styles that they really
shouldn't be reduced.
It's possible to play with others anywhere, at any time, but you won't
get the sort of close, informal contact with such good musicians as
were leading us at Halsway, except on courses like Halsway. It's what
the weekend is all about.
If people want just to play with others, what's wrong with Saturday
and Sunday afternoons. However, I reckon I was attached to my pipes
for about 16 hours (!!!!) through the weekend and there is a limit to
how much the fingers and shoulders can take. What you have at Halsway,
as it has been over the last three years when I've been there, is a
fantastic mix which works really, really well.
Mike said, "I was struggling at times during the tutorials though. I
wish my sight-reading was better !" The point is that, without
actually spending time making a concentrated effort to improve, we'll
always be struggling and never improve. I don't want to sit in a
teaching session which doesn't stretch me well past my playing level
at the time, that's what I take away at the end and work on all year
until the next wonderful Halsway!
Please don't take the easy way out - it's what I value Halsway for.
Thanks to you both again for all your hard working making it happen,
Mel Leggett
----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Corkett"
<a...@bcorkett.freeserve.co.uk>
To: "Mike and Enid Walton" <mikeande...@worcesterfolk.org.uk>
Cc: "NSP LIST" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 7:47 AM
Subject: [NSP] Halsway playaround
HALSWAY SUNDAY PLAYAROUND
So many have commented on the Sunday evening being a successful
element of
the piping weekend, that I wonder if we ought to reduce some of the
tuition
session and introduce another informal play period.
Any comments?
Alan Corkett
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike and Enid Walton [mailto:mikeande...@worcesterfolk.org.uk]
Sent: 12 March 2009 05:16
To: Dartmouth NSP
Subject: [NSP] Re: Tune Phrasing / Rants / Reels / Polkas
I suppose it's a problem you face whenever playing music not from
your own
"tradition". It took a melodeon workshop in Ireland to make me
realise that
I had a local style of box playing, and that I want to keep it ! If
it's an
Irish reel or jig, it normally goes on the whistle now. Some polkas
fit
well on the box though.
With the pipes, it's a question of whether we stick to the style for
the
area where the pipes came from, or just use them for our own local
music, in
our own local style. I play lots of Northumbrian tunes, but also
nationally
common tunes (including Jimmy sorry Jamie sorry Jimmy Allen) and I
played
Dorset Four Hand Reel on Sunday. I'm trying to learn the
Worcestershire
Hornpipe.
Yes, I really enjoyed Halsway, especially the informal session /
play-a-round on Sunday. I was struggling at times during the
tutorials
though. I wish my sight-reading was better !
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Rhodes" <oxpi...@hotmail.com>
To: "Dartmouth NSP" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 3:08 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: Tune Phrasing / Rants / Reels / Polkas
Hi Mike,
This is a forum for the Northumbrian Pipes and the traditional
music of
the north east, and as such is often very interesting and
informative.
It helps us all to work on playing the pipes well and to figure
out how
we can improve our playing in the Northumbrian tradition. But
please
don't ask the northerners how we should play tunes in our own
area! We
can be proud of our own tradition here, which is rich and thriving
even
if we don't shout quite so loud.
Let the northerners do the ranting, we can enjoy playing them
however
we like.
Wasn't Halsway great as always?
All the best,
Paul
> Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:23:19 +0000
> To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
> From: mikeande...@worcesterfolk.org.uk
> Subject: [NSP] Re: Tune Phrasing / Rants / Reels / Polkas
>
> So we've had a long discussion about rants, reels, polkas.
>
> I'm sure that those resident in the North-East should continue to
play these
> tunes with a good traditional rant rhythm.
>
> What about those pipers like me, resident in the far south ?
Some of
the
> tunes we play on the pipes (Salmontails, Winster Gallop for
instance)
are
> common across the whole country, and are played as polkas
hereabouts.
When
> I introduce some other "North Eastern" tunes, even if I had the
ability to
> ensure they started as rants, the other mujsicians around me
would
probably
> turn them into polkas. Yet tunes have always historically drifted
across
> the country, into Ireland and Scotland and back, etc such than
you
often
> can't tell where they started !
>
> It also begs the question as to whether, as a southerner, I
should be
trying
> to play them as rants at all !
>
> Mike
>
>
>
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