"Unmanned spy drone" says the article.
I have an image of a little hovering drone which buzzes round nsp mass
playings to check on the tunings of everyone present. Depending on the
personality of the group leader/teacher, offenders are either helpfully
rectified or dispatched.
( in case
Yes - thanks!
R
Julia Say wrote:
On 13 Jan 2010, Richard York wrote:
Julia, I love this word "snotomer" but confess I haven't met it before,
neither has Google, it appears... I can sort of guess...
Please explain, with footnotes where appropriate :)
I worked fo
Julia, I love this word "snotomer" but confess I haven't met it before,
neither has Google, it appears... I can sort of guess...
Please explain, with footnotes where appropriate :)
Richard.
Julia Say wrote:
On 13 Jan 2010, Gibbons, John wrote:
I can't see LP getting too sticky -
Errmmm, no actually I got lots of sheets from an overhead projector and
wiped it until or there again I'm just getting old and forgetful
and meant acetone all the time. Whooops.
Thanks, Francis.
Richard.
Francis Wood wrote:
On 12 Jan 2010, at 19:04, Richard York
Hi Tom,
I'll let others advise on the oil, but the bottles are gained by boldly
walking into a nail and beauty salon and asking for either an unused one
or an empty, then applying loads of acetate to clean it up.
Best wishes,
Richard.
Tom Childs wrote:
Hi all,
I know this question has probabl
Thanks for the reminder, Matt, and my apologies.
Richard.
Matt Seattle wrote:
Etiquette
Only couple of gross offenders, but please don't include EVERY message
in a thread when you reply to it, just the relevant bits
Happy New Year
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Palatinate Pipes?
tim rolls BT wrote:
I guess we may have to consider allowing Durham,
CHAPELRY OF WHITWORTH.
The Chapelry of Whitworth is bounded by the Wear, dividing it from
Brancepath on the North; by Tudhoe, in the Parish of Brancepath, on the
East; by Merrington o
Strange, isn't it? You're right, but I can't recollect ever seeing the
"Scotland bagpipes" mentioned, nor yet the "France bagpipes."
Yours in puzzlement, but Happy New Year anyway,
Richard.
P.S. Not being very tall, I suppose I'm a small piper, or at least
aspiring eventually to become one.
c
And there I'd been believing that old rubbish about payment to the
carter for bring in the harvest, and the remaining Anglo-French
influence on language in places like Hutton-le-Hole - Haul le Hay
Penny.
Tsk, as they say.
(Enough - I must away to work)
Richard.
Francis Wood
G'wan then...
Francis Wood wrote:
On 1 Jan 2010, at 17:59, Barry Say wrote:
the most convincing story I have heard is that when the Crusaders travelled to
what has been described as 'The Holy Land', they discovered people playing
'pipes' from air in 'bags'.
I don't suppose anyone wants
I don't know what someone fed you for New Year's Day Dinner, Francis,
but it should be on sale only under the counter.
Salutations.
Richard.
Francis Wood wrote:
On 1 Jan 2010, at 21:18, Richard York wrote:
There's also the theory that said crusaders found the S
There's also the theory that said crusaders found the Saracen bagpipes
upset their horses so brought them back as a way of bagpipe-proofing
horses - urban bagpiping myth or not?
The same theory likes the introduction of the nakers to Europe
occurring for the same reason - it is said
Well said again, Anthony.
It's indeed the possession of both skills which is rare.
We recently met a lady who had played professionally in the string
section of a leading national orchestra for years, and had just retired.
Name the conductor, and she'd played under them.
She now left the instrum
rhaps this link will help answer a few of the questions implied
below. The consultation period may be over, but it was unlikely to
have made any difference anyway, may be more joy if 100,000 people
contacted their MPs.
http://www.ofcom.org.uk/consult/condocs/pmse_funding/summary/
Tim
----- Orig
Thanks Richard,
That's interesting - we like Firefox so much better in lots of ways, but
it sometimes doesn't play things it ought. Now I'll know what to do in
future!
Best wishes,
Richard.
Richard Evans wrote:
Richard Evans wrote:
Anthony Robb wrote:
Here's a wee snippet of Will Atkinso
ter I met him at one of Archie
Bertram's nights near Hepple and could see just what he meant. Trouble
is I'm still not there yet - as Jimmy Little says "it takes a lang
time, a lang, lang time"!
Cheers
Anthony
--- On Sun, 25/10/09, Richard York
wrote:
I'd love to hear it, but am I the only one whose computer sits there for
ages with the quick-time logo up, and the message "loading", but no
ultimate achievement?
Is there an alternative route to reaching it?
I can hear the other tunes on your front page, Anthony, they're fine.
Thanks,
Richard.
And to make matters worse we're all into parallel bore, which sounds
more repressed than conical bore. Though I suppose being an inverse
conical bore might be worse still.
May I suggest we refer instead to the "Intra-chanter central musical
channel" which apart from being snappy surely removes a
With my apologies for seriously abusing the proper subject of this list...
Please do any Guardian readers among you in the UK have a copy of
today's (Monday's) section of "Great Fairy Tales" unwanted?
I'll happily refund the cost of the paper plus P&P to get one. Please
reply off list; and again
I opened my computer to write and congratulate Julia & all on Folio 3, &
see I'm not the first, so I'll join my voice to theirs.
I'll look forward to playing through the tunes too.
Thanks,
Richard.
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Valerio's right - though you could always buy the Peacock book on
actual paper. It's remarkably cheap for such a superb set of music for
8 notes.
In fact in my fairly short nsp playing life so far, I've been
surprised that although everyone carries the Society Tune Books and
the folios, rela
I'm impressed that you find you can write decent tunes in your sleep,
Valerio - I recently woke up from a dream with a world-beatingly
fantastic tune in it, and to my glee found I could still remember part
of it. Then as the layers of sleep peeled away I was mortified to
realise I'd
.00 do you get a B part? For -L-2.00 did you get repeats?
Regards
Malcolm
-Original Message-
From: Richard York [2]
To: NSP group [3]
Sent: Wed, Aug 12, 2009 5:16 pm
Subject: [NSP] Composing location
On holiday I set myself the task of writing a tune a day whet
Apologies to the rest of you for using the general lists thus.
Hi Dawn,
You wrote to one of these two lists about Rothbury Festival... I think
it's next weekend, yes? recently but I deleted the message, and
hence your address with it.
I have a small favour to ask, if you are going up there,
I rather assumed that the extra extra embellishment was a sort of "in"
joke, affectionately smiling at Billy Pigg's enthusiasm for such
embellishments and just overdoing it enough for the grin. Andy M only
does that once - most tasteful!
Mr. May, sir, - if you read this list - was that the inte
When teaching an evening class on playing traditional music a while
back, I was determined to get the dots only players to play by ear, &
visa versa too, so they all had the benefit of both techniques. Most
seemed to find it useful.
So after some weeks of working up to it, and following John
K
I always found that getting the group to put the instruments down, and
sing the tune, as best the voice allows, until it's internalised; and
only then encouraging people to play it with the same feel as they sang
it, works better than some ways of ear teaching, and tends to get more
spirit into
be quite fast otherwise they
feel clumsy and uncoordinated; to move along and feel light on their
feet they need speed - which the player has to provide. When the
piper is simply playing for his/her own pleasure then the music can
take over and set its own tempo.
Cheers,
Richard S.
Richard Yo
I find this very reassuring, Matt!
I'm still bashing away at Peacock, and only recently took note of the
metronome settings in the recent edition, some of which are, to me,
stratospherically fast.
I've been wondering if these were based on general practice, either
current or histo
Please may I suggest that whatever form the Great Reformed NPS takes, it
should be inclusive rather than exclusive?
The traditional ways of playing are necessarily vital. They have
informed the instrument and the music, and they only survived because
they are very good music; but there are peo
There's neatsfoot, and there's liquid paraffin, and I know there are
passionate supporters of each.
Colin Dipper, the concertina maker & repairer of very high renown, uses
camellia oil on the metal ends, where the keys pass through
close-fitting holes, and reports that in 6 years of use it d
R
-Original Message-
From: Richard York
To: NSP group
Sent: Sun, 19 Apr 2009 9:37
Subject: [NSP] Cut & Dry Dolly
To reveal myself as a Softie Southerner who probably pronounces Bath
as Barth and thinks there are only wolves & polar bears North of
Watford ;-) ...please, what
To reveal myself as a Softie Southerner who probably pronounces Bath as
Barth and thinks there are only wolves & polar bears North of Watford
;-) ...please, what is a "Cut & Dry Dolly"?
It suggests corn stooks to me, but this might be the wrong tree entirely.
Thanks,
Richard.
To get on o
Welcome back, Anthony.
And "here here" to Colin for your comments.
I was also there in the 70's, and people like the Albion Band, Steeleye
Span, and others further out on their own electric limbs were doing
things to folk music which would have had the old boys like William
Kimber turning in th
Thanks Matt & all.
Best wishes,
Richard.
Matt Seattle wrote:
Some strathspeys have 'Rant' in the title also, e.g. Rothiemurchus'
Rant, Carrick's Rant. What's being referred to here is a more
specifically regional use. I've been wondering if some of the
common-time tunes in Peacock (Cuckold, Cut
I am enjoying playing "Sir Charles Rant" - or "Sir Charle's Rant" - in
Peacock, but the title is interesting.
It obviously isn't a rant under the various definitions discussed here
recently, since it's in 6/8.
For those without Peacock who like words to rhythms, it doesn't refer to
tomato sou
Wonderful!
Which leads me to offer this one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q28ikQaPFK4
OK, it's fiddle-orientated rather than either sheep or smallpipes, but
don't you think there's scope here for a new category in piping contests?
Or perhaps simply a nice variant on the advice to practise with
ng over of this
unique heritage that drives me to bring it to a wider audience. If you
haven't already done so buy Will Atkinson's wonderful CD and you'll
see
what I mean.
Regards
Anthony
--- On Wed, 11/3/09, Richard York
wrote:
From: Richard York
rolls BT wrote:
Hi Richard,
Don't leave us hanging what did he choose to do?
Tim
- Original Message - From: "Richard York"
To: "NSP group"
Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 6:10 PM
Subject: [NSP] Re: First 30 tunes
Some years ago I met a man
Some years ago I met a man who was responsible for some work on the
musicians carvings in Beverley Minster, most famous of course being the
pipers.
His quandary was whether to simply clean them up as they were, or to
restore them to what the Victorians had imposed on them, mistakes and
all,
Thanks again, Alan and Christine, for organising it.
It was my first event of this sort, and hugely worth while.
I'm still relatively new to nsp's and still gratefully borrowing other
people's sets, but have been on plenty of musical teaching events, both
as a student and teacher, and the teach
..sorry, serves me right for trying to be clever & represent a set of
random pitches on the "best wishes" bit - it comes out all wrongly
spaced... (Looked OK when I did it!)
R.
Richard York wrote:
I haven't yet had time to play with the site, but this relates to a
I haven't yet had time to play with the site, but this relates to a
method which it was claimed could teach even "tone deaf" people to sing
in tune... and presumably to hear to tune drones.
The teacher plays a note, the victim sings what they think is the note.
Teacher plays what they actually
Haven't had Mr Allen, specifically, but along with all the interesting
life-enhancing chemical offers we've had repeated adverts from a
printing firm offering not just business cards, but "Free Backside
Printing" too.
..Who would you show?
Richard.
julia@nspipes.co.uk wrote:
I am currently
Back to this chestnut, before MsTickell's award takes the airwaves up :)
Especially since Colin Hill posted the link
http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/old-time-music/midi/005200.MID
to that amazing rendition on accompaniment with bit of tune showing
through , it's been occasionally surfacing
... and let's not even lift small corner of the lid over the hell which
is the Public Entertainment Licence :-(
Richard
[1]julia@nspipes.co.uk wrote:
On 16 Jan 2009, [2]malcra...@aol.com wrote:
How does copyright effect performance.?
Especaillay if an enterance charge is made,
Michael Jackson's THAT strapped for cash???... or just that mean?
What happened to those nice American ladies who wrote it all those years
ago, then?
Richard
julia@nspipes.co.uk wrote:
On 16 Jan 2009, julia@nspipes.co.uk wrote:
But here's a PS:
"Publishing" includes typesetting
Hi,
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm sure simply recording it does confer
copyright, or at least has in the past, justly or not.
When various people collected folk singers earlier in the C20th, I
believe it's still an issue which rankles that by doing so they did
exactly that.
I was told that t
Dunno about ladies, but I believe that gents have the buttons arranged
so the coat/whatever hangs allowing you to be able to draw a sword -
kept on the left - with the right hand.
Or is this one of those moments when the bells & Klaxons go off as I
present yet another urban myth?
(It's also why
Reference was recently made here to the baroque French notes inegale -
I'm just listening to Radio 3's Early Music Show on Lully. I don't know
if they'll mention it, but wonder if the famous story about his untimely
demise due to overzealous bashing stick on floor to keep time (resulting
gangre
l Message-
From: Richard York [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 24 November 2008 18:41
To: NSP group
Subject: [NSP] Oil and health
Hello all.
I'm wary of opening a debate which could possibly re-visit too many
personal differences, but would welcome any bio-chemically-minded
comment on somethi
I risk being shot down for ignorance, but is it not the case that the
GHB's were traditionally a shade away from Bb concert pitch, and have
now come to roost on Bb as such for similar reasons?
( I just wish they wouldn't play them alongside brass bands, which tend
to have a different temperament
um, if that lot is a "wild stab in the dark", what do you count as
precision? ... on second thoughts don't tell me, I'd never follow it! :-)
Best wishes,
Richard.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can someone please tell me if with concert pitch A=440Hz what is the
frequency of A with traditional
I know little enough about this particular song, but it's certainly
amazing how many Homeric or other Greek mythological references turn up
in apparently quite unrelated storytelling traditions collected much
more recently, so wouldn't be at all offput by any Homeric strain here.
Reg
The BBC radio news Quiz has just referred to a test of men's declining
powers, correlated with age. It seems we start to seriously go downhill
after 39.
(Not much hope for me then.)
The test was to see how rapidly they could keep tapping their index
fingers over a period of 10 seconds, a vital
A small-harp making friend of ours says from bitter experience that
cases in the hold should withstand being dropped the 12 feet or so from
the plane onto the concrete.
It's happened with a number of his harps, & we've also heard of more
than one concert harp, in heavy case, being simply pushe
Dunno for sure, but when I was editing, largely self-taught, a MS I
found of an early 18th century gent's favourite "flute" (i.e. recorder)
tunes, he had a whole plethora of marks, spirals, cirles with dots, the
lot.
I looked in the "Division Recorder Book" for help, where there are
Thanks, both Julia & Chris.
Pretty much like lots of C18/19 marks on music then! And in the case
of a run of semi-quavers on the nsp I suppose it also has the
possibility of "do nothing extra" ?
Best wishes,
Richard.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 22 Sep 2008, Ormston, Chris wro
.. and of course I never, never ever, not never at all, make such
errors in my own music writing. Not at all, at all
R
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There is something similar in the 1st half bar of Keelman Ower Land.
There it is dc/B/A/G, with the NM version putting a triplet on the
Thanks, both John & Barry, for confirming what seemed logically right!
I didn't have the FARNE link, so that's a bonus.
Best wishes,
Richard.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For those without the facsimile handy, the relevant page in FARNE is
[2]http://www.asaplive.com/archive/detai
nary.
Also claimed by Norfolk with the addition of the word "luggy" as
meaning deaf.
Not really the height of either industry or shipbuilding there, I think.
Colin Hill
- Original Message - From: "Richard York"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "NSP group"
S
No, it's a sort of sail, hence "Lugger".
Isn't it?
Or was that a boat with big ears sticking out each side to catch the wind?
Richard.
Ormston, Chris wrote:
And here was me thinking that the 'lug' might be an ancient tool fashioned from a curlew's beak by the early Christian monks of Lindisfarn
hink) "That's what I think, anyhow. But I
expect I'm wrong."
Richard.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Er, not sure I agree with this one...
-Original Message-
From: Richard York [[2]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2008 12:22 PM
To: [EMAIL
?). :)
That being said, I really liked the playing of Billy Pigg but accepted
that he was very much an individual.
Just enjoy the pipes and don't get hung up on this debate - much of it
is "tongue in cheek" anyway (I hope).
I'll probably be burned in effigy after this post!
Coli
P.S. and my main request was for technique advice. I'm grateful for
the information already coming in - thanks!
The bit about Kosher-or-not was really the lesser part of my message.
Richard.
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Oh dear - that wasn't what I meant at all! Just an honest appeal for
information which seems to be common knowledge to many, but obscure to
me, and I gather, others too. Because I don't know who is truly Outside
The Pale I might get the wrong idea, and start thinking wrong things
about absolute
.. they had no choytce, as it were...?
With solemn apologies.
Richard
On 27 Aug 2008, JuliaSay wrote:
> I have just been informed that Bellingham Show has been cancelled. The
> field is waterlogged, and it's still raining there. They could not
> leave a decision any longer.
To
No, it's the little hamlet just down the road, York-With-Outany
;-)
R.
Is that as in Yorke-Withany?
Honor Hill
-Original Message-
From: Richard York [[1]mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 3:27 PM
To: NSP group
Subject: [NSP] re-Tune title spelling
Interesting -
Interesting - name spelling consistency seems to have been a remarkably
variable thing anyway until relatively recently. When did it generally
get standardised, I wonder?
Richard York, (or in some branches of the family, Yorke...)
Jim Grant wrote:
Maybe his name was re spelled at the time of
With apologies... I've just changed all my email settings, 'cos of 2000
spams a day, & am just checking this still works.
Happy Summer to all, anyway.
R.
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Thanks, both Peter & Rob for these details!
Richard.
Peter Dyson wrote:
Red Shift "Back in the Red", 1987, track one, side one:
Valencia Harbour (trad)
Up the Walls of the World (Martin Reese/Paul Thomson)
Around the World for Sport
on this record, Red Shift were:
Pete Coe, John Adams, George
I've mainly heard the version Julia gives first, though I got it from
Kathryn Tickell's playing.
Matt, I haven't heard the Rob MacKillop version - is this the same as
Julia's version 1, please?
With thanks,
Richard.
P.S. To Matt - I've just got your Vickers new edition - Smashing!
Matt Seattle
27;t do as much with the smallpipes
> and the GHB have somewhat taken over
>
>
> Carl & Helenora Smith
>
> -Original Message-
> From: Richard York [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 10:22 AM
> To: NSP group
> Subject: [NSP] Re: ebay
I'm glad it's of interest - hope it goes to a good home!
Richard.
(I even managed to spell my own name right the second time round :-) )
Roger Howard wrote:
It is, presumably, a copy of the second edition (1931), with what appears to
be a homemade cover. Fenwick's original Tutor (1895) was edit
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