Yes, I should have added that bit!
As with all instruments that are not mainstream, what you first hear is
often how you think it should sound.
A bad player puts people off the instrument and also teaches you the "wrong"
way to play.
I also play(?) Hurdy Gurdy and that instrument has already been through the
process of being used to refer to a bad wailing sound soon after the French
Revolution when it fell out of favour and was played (often badly) by
beggars etc.
We don't want that to happen to the pipes, do we?
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ian Lawther" <irlawt...@comcast.net>
To: "colin" <cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk>
Cc: "Dartmouth NPS" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 9:03 PM
Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: nps
colin wrote:
That's the whole point, isn't it?
There's a big difference between pipers who can play and then choose to
experiment and do "naughty" things and players who just play badly and
sloppily (is that a word?).
But there is also the knock on effect of those who do not bother to learn
properly but simply learn the "naughty" things without the grounding in
the basics.
Ian
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