Hello Reid, Well this sounds like a very finely balanced decision which might not take much to tip it in one direction or the other!
So taking a clue from your address, it's known that Audubon visited Thomas Bewick and listened with great pleasure to his son Robert playing Northumberland small-pipes. Hardly a practical reason for choosing . . . but interesting, I hope. Francis On 13 Nov 2010, at 20:42, Reid Bishop wrote: > Hideeho, > > I am new to the nsp list serve. I play fiddle and a few other stringed > instruments in various Celtic trad styles. My love of Celtic music began > when I was 12 listening to Scottish pipers. I am turning 40 this month and > have decided at long last that I want to pipe! I play routinely with my > family who are also trad players so I need something to play tunes on that > context at least occassionally. I am growing in fascination with the NSP. > How should I start? Better should I start given that I am now officially > over the hill and have never played any kind of a wind instrument. Are > Scottish smallpipes more appropriate. I am handy with fixing and maintaining > instruments. Help! > > Cheers > > Reid > > ----------------------------------------- > G. Reid Bishop, Ph.D. > Director > Mississippi River Field Institute > National Audubon Society > 1208 Washington St. > Vicksburg, MS 39183 > > Office: (601)-661-6189 > Mobile: (601)-214-5261 > Email: rbis...@audubon.org > Web: mri.audubon.org > > > On Nov 13, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Ian Lawther <irlawt...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> My youngest daughter (10) has always been a little bit of a tune sponge >> though she has refused to join the school choir (much to the teachers >> disappointment) and only recently took up an instrument (flute). Last night >> she was whistling something from Holst's The Planets which she picked up >> somewhere but right now she is sitting playing with Lego and whistling >> Morpeth Rant....which I happened to be practicing on the melodeon about half >> and hour ago. She does it better than I was doing. >> >> Ian >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
