Sorry Barry I cant agree with you there.
I would argue that just because the forum is called 'Northumbrian
Smallpipes', doesn't mean that topics that are reference points to
locate the
cultural context of the music, and the pipes themselves, are not
relevant, and as you suggest are therefore to be just tolerated.
The culture and the music is intertwined with the pipes and they also
refer to other genres, instruments and cultures. How can you separate
them?
If we want to regulate this forum to a technical reference tool by
discounting the other 'stuff' ,then In my opinion the site would be
less informative, and restrictive.
If you want the title to be the measure of the discussion, maybe a
longer title might help.
Stephen Douglass
On Feb 6, 2010, at 1:17 PM, Barry Say wrote:
Anthony Robb wrote:
This is a a forum for that tiny minority of people who have found
Northumbrian music and culture rewarding and uplifting.
Sorry Anthony, you are mistaken. This is a forum for discussing
Northumbrian Smallpipes. It has been a remarkably tolerant place
where discussions have taken place on topics such as scottish
music, other bagpipes, mouth-organ music and fiddle music to name a
few.
We cannot assume that members of this list have any interest
whatsoever in the music or culture of Northumberland. The subject
of the list is the Northumbrian Smallpipes, all other things are
peripheral.
Barry
PS Are contributors aware that all there posts are archived for
posterity and that future historians of the pipes will be able to
trawl these records to form an opinion of the piping community at
the beginning of the 21st century.
Wayne keeps a copy at Dartmouth and there are copies at
www.mail-archive.com which has over 74 million postings from 6000
+mailing lists
and
www.opensubscriber.com has the most recent 3919 postings from this
list and promises never to delete any of them.
Oh yes, I also have a copy.
B
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