What a wonderful language we have.
A small piper. Is that under a certain height then?
I defence of things, I suppose that whatever we say will, to the
uninitiated, cause confusion.
Scottish piper? A piper from Scotland or a player of the Scottish bagpipes?
How about small pipes of Northumbria player then :-)
I suppose the sentence should really start with the word "player". A wee
old-fashioned perhaps but clearer. How could you misunderstand "Player of
the Northumbrian small-pipes".
It's the old "I know a man with a wooden leg called Bill - really, what's
the other one called?".
It's knowing what the adjective describes, isn't it and that "Northumbrian
small-pipes" is the name of the instrument?
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard York" <rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk>
To: "colin" <cwh...@santa-fe.freeserve.co.uk>; "NSP group"
<nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 8:48 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: NSP
Strange, isn't it? You're right, but I can't recollect ever seeing the
"Scotland bagpipes" mentioned, nor yet the "France bagpipes."
Yours in puzzlement, but Happy New Year anyway,
Richard.
P.S. Not being very tall, I suppose I'm a small piper, or at least
aspiring eventually to become one.
colin wrote:
I'd go with that.
Problem with "Northumbrian" is that it may appear that it refers to where
the artist comes from (as in "Colin Hill, Liverpudlian small-pipes
player"). ;-)
Northumbrian piper may suggest a piper from Northumberland who plays
bagpipes (any).
Northumberland small-pipes player sounds good and accurate (maybe
"player" is stretching it a little in my case). :-D
Colin Hill
----- Original Message ----- From: "inky adrian"
<inky-adr...@ntlworld.com>
To: <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2010 3:38 PM
Subject: [NSP] NSP
I've always called them the Northumberland small-pipes as did the NPS
in the old days.
Inky-adrian
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