On 8 Feb 2010, Bill Telfer wrote: > This type of duet (and playing in a small band), though hard work is for me > one of the most satisfying ways to use the pipes.
Hear, hear. Both all pipes, and pipes / fiddle. I looked up in the society records, and the first mention of a pipes / fiddle duet class in the competitions is 1950. It was won in that year by Basil Clough & George Hepple, the following two years by Joe Hutton and George Hepple. (I know that John & George Hepple also played together) Prior to that there were only nsp duets in the comps, starting 1933, and won in that year by TW Pigg and J. Armstrong - it doesn't say which but I would assume John Armstrong of Carrick. One of the best impromptu duets I've ever heard was a "performance" of "Cuckold come out the Amrey", on the 2nd floor stairs of Morpeth Town Hall, played by Matt S on Border pipes and Colin R on fiddle, in the interval of ...something or other. Music with attitude!! Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
