Since I've never felt the urge to compete, perhaps I shouldn't really comment. But from what I've observed, the competition element in the NSP world is nothing like that in GHB piping.
It seems to me that NSP competition is far more about participation in traditional events and receiving some personal endorsement of achievement, rather than defeating the opposition. I've no idea what melodeon culture and tradition is like, but evidently it cannot be ancient, as piping traditions are. If there are strong feelings about how things should be done (preferably expressed in a friendly way, but I won't lose sleep if they are not), I'm interested and glad to read them in this forum. This is essentially a pretty friendly place, though with the occasional angry outburst. Rather like any average marriage, I guess. Love n' Peace to all, Francis On 24 May 2011, at 09:33, <christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu> <christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu> wrote: >> Perhaps one of the reasons the melodeon group is so friendly is that >> they don't have competition built into their culture the way pipers >> do. (For a diatribe on the subject see my editorial at >> [2]www.theotherpipers.org). >> > > Excellent article! > Csírz > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
