When is the ebook edition coming out?
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:23 AM, tim rolls BT <tim.ro...@btconnect.com> wrote:
> Julia wrote
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> "The one you have was an ephemeral printing only."
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> Does that mean the print will fade away and he'll have to buy one of your
> new ones :-0
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> Tim
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> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Say" <julia....@nspipes.co.uk>
> To: "nsp" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "Dru Brooke-Taylor"
> <drubrooketay...@btinternet.com>; "Richard Shuttleworth"
> <rshuttlewo...@sympatico.ca>
> Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 6:21 PM
> Subject: [NSP] Re: Sliabh na m'bhan (was Gaelic Pronunciation)
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>> On 6 Feb 2010, Richard Shuttleworth wrote:
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>>> How many more books on Billy Pigg can you find to write? (Big grin here)
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>> The existing one (the 1997 book with the biography and interviews in) is
>> effectively out of print - there are a few copies left which will be
>> available to
>> NPS members only.
>> The one you have was an ephemeral printing only.
>>
>> The tunebook-sized volumes currently in production are a re-write of the
>> 1997 book,
>> with some biography, updated information on Billy's playing style using
>> two or
>> three of Geoff's transcriptions of common tunes as illustrations, and
>> revision
>> (where necessary) of the tunes themselves. I've listened to all the tunes
>> with a
>> far more educated ear than 13 years ago: the 1st edition I was effectively
>> ghost-
>> writing.
>> One will have all Billy's compositions in: the other is a wider selection
>> of tunes
>> he played. Once that's out, I will have said all I'm intending to on the
>> subject.
>> Billy was a one-off (there are those who would say thank goodness!), an
>> important
>> influence on C20 piping and wrote some darn good tunes.
>>
>>> Gay McKeon .... This version varies quite a bit from Billy's in the
>>> second part but it is certainly the same air. I shall study this.
>>
>> Gay came and did a concert at the Chantry a few years back and I was most
>> impressed. I suspect that like most airs, this one has as many versions as
>> there
>> are players - and so it should be, in a sense.
>>
>>> Adrian plays
>>> Sliabh na m'Bhan followed by The Iron Man. My liner notes are so old I
>>> didn't see the forward slash in the printing
>>
>> Ah, that explains it.
>>
>>> Thank you, Julia, for separating my enquiry from the bitter
>>> correspondence
>>> it seems to have generated.
>>
>> Not at all...we are both, I believe, founder members of this list, and
>> have
>> followed it through an assortment of ups and downs. On balance I think
>> it's been of
>> great use to a large number of people over the years. I believe we first
>> "met" on
>> the bagpipe list which preceded it, which IIRC drowned in a welter of GHB
>> wars
>> that make some exchanges on here, recent and not-so-recent, pale into
>> insignificance.
>>
>> Anyway, I like lively debate.
>>
>> Julia
>>
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