[NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks

2008-09-22 Thread Ormston, Chris
Richard,
We don't really know what Peacock meant by the trill marks.  It's even been 
suggested that Mr Wright, the publisher, was wholly responsible for the 
transcriptions, and, not being a piper, gave it his best shot.  We don't know 
for certain that Peacock was musically literate (correct me if I'm wrong).  
I've found through playing the Peacock repertoire that I tend to use vibrato 
where a trill is marked - perhaps that's what was intended, who knows???  The 
pieces certainly work fine without the trills.

Clough's comments on the Fenwick tutor would suggest that the classical 
definitions of some of these embellishments were quite alien to the piping 
tradition.

Don't let it put you off persevering with the Peacock collection - it's really 
not as difficult as it may seem at first glance.  There are common note 
patterns and sequences, and if you can master one Peacock variation set you're 
well on the way to conquering them all!  For those of you who'd like something 
slightly more accessible, Clough's variations on Oh Dear What Can The Matter Be 
follow the Peacock pattern, albeit with some keyed variations thrown in for 
good measure.

Chris


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After all the recent fireworks I hesitate to ask this but here goes 
anyway; not to be provocative, just wanting to know.

In Peacock's facsimile (I don't know what happens in the re-edition) 
there are a number of tunes where he gives  tr marks. For example,  no 
10, My Ain Kind Dearie has these, and also quite specific small 
grace-notes, written in elsewhere in the tune.
While these tr marks are most frequently over longer notes, such as 
the dotted one of a pair of beamed notes, some of the markings (bar 14) 
are over semiquavers. OK, it's not a breakneck speed tune, but these are 
still going to be fairly short notes in the first place. I don't suggest 
he's suggesting more than a quick twiddle, rather than a full scale 
finished trill, but there are going to be at least 3 notes involved here.
I'd be interested to know whether these are to be interpreted as 
separately fingered, whether you think the middle note would be above or 
below, or whether a dreaded quick lift of the finger above is even implied.

Or whether, given that he puts these over pairs of semiquavers which are 
also slur marked, he's simply nicked a fiddler's version, and isn't 
thinking smallpipes at all; though.to be honest, one could do the 
[c-word] and slur onto the next note which was then lifted short before 
starting the next pair, on the nsp's. Well, someone with more technique 
than I have could, anyway :-) .

With thanks,
Richard.



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[NSP] Re: the cry of the curlew, the wind in the reeds...

2008-08-27 Thread Ormston, Chris
Me too!  Used to go to the Liverpool Trad Club at the Cross Keys in the early 
80s, and the Baltic Fleet, the Grapes on Matthew Street, and the shorter-lived 
Brook House Club, and made occasional forays to the Bothy in Southport.  I 
mostly played in sessions though at the Cracke, the Nelson on the Dock Road, 
the Irish Centre and a pub somewhere behind the Philharmonic Hall, the name of 
which escapes me.  Most memorable, though was a session on board the Irish Oak 
which was docked near the Nelson - had to give a backhander to the security man 
at the dock gates to get in, and nearly got arrested trying to leave again as 
we were mistaken for illegal immigrants!

Chris


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There were many Folk clubs during the 60's - 80's including a 
few excellent 
traditional clubs (I ran one - and played my pipes there 

Which one was that? I was quite active on the folk scene in Liverpool in the 
mid-60s but had only ever encountered nsp on record (played by colin ross 
accompanying louis killen on derwentwater farewell).
Strange our crossths didn't path ;-)



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[NSP] Re: More choyting!

2008-08-26 Thread Ormston, Chris
Sounds more like Billy Smart than Billy Pigg.  The possibilities are endless - 
pipers could arrive at performances in a car where the doors fall off! Is there 
any chance the NPS could manufacture Society badges that squirt water in 
people's faces, and should the audience at competitions throw custard pies to 
create a general sense of hilarity? :)

Chris


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What about the Three Tenors doing doing all that warbling at the end of O Sole 
Mio. It was done in fun and because they could do it and it went down a storm. 
Why can't we do the same thing on our pipes if we want to for fun and mischief 
to get laughter and response from our listeners?which is probably the main 
thing we are trying to do in playing in public (you could do it in a forest as 
well even if no one is listening). Something like jazz compared to classical 
playing.


Cromwell would have been proud of this strict puritanical rule of no more than 
one finger off at a time that Clough is supposed to have advocated.


Colin










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Colin said:I often wonder why the style of playing causes so much 
attention and why the   odd choyte causes so much concern..Imagine if 
Pavarotti had thrown in the odd yodel in Nessun Dorma, and you'll get   the 
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[NSP] Re: jhf

2008-08-22 Thread Ormston, Chris


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   I would like a straight version of Forsters 'Jim Halls Fancy'
Well you'll not find it on Canal Street!

   p.s. can I choyt at the Bellingham Show?
You can - but don't expect a prize!  Tom Clough's Bellingham adjudication 
speech from the 1930s still applies!!

Chris




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[NSP] Re: jhf

2008-08-22 Thread Ormston, Chris
Thanks - I hope my fingering is more accurate than my memory for dates!

Chris
Tough on choyting, tough on the causers of choyting

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On 22 Aug 2008, Ormston, Chris wrote: 

  Bellingham Show?
  Tom Clough's Bellingham
 adjudication speech from the 1930s still applies!!

October 1923:
The chief aim of any player is to produce good music. Now this can 
only be attained by the proper use of his musical instrument.
There are two fundamental principles of good piping, namely winding, 
and execution on the chanter. The chanter, unlike any other form of 
pipe is close fingered - it emits no sound when the finger-holes are 
closed, hence its distinctness. In the hands of an expert the music 
can be produced with surprising distinctness. The principles 
mentioned, combined with the proper musical ideas of the performer, 
makes good piping and tasteful music.

Thanks for the warning, Chris!

Julia



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[NSP] Re: jhf

2008-08-22 Thread Ormston, Chris
Just this morning I couldn't hear the pit hooter for all those pesky curlews 
and sheep!

Chris


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Adrian gives an excellent description of the top a to g note gracing as
sounding like a seagull in pain if not executed properly, which is one
prominent example of open gracing very commonly heard.

Not executed properly? But isn't it meant to sound like that? 
The cry of the curlew, bleating of sheep etc

John

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On 22 Aug 2008, Ormston, Chris wrote: 
,
 I've just had an off-list request for an explanation of choyting. 
 Clough described it as To grace a note in the manner of a Highland 
 piper i.e. to play a grace note, then a melody note without silence 
 between the two.

and (in reference to the 1895 Fenwick tutor):
Regarding the shake: In many instances it is understood and played by
pipers in the following manner: They lift the principal note, and
successively strike the note above while the principal note is kept
running. A grievous error in smallpipe playing. 

Clough had been asked for his opinion on an update of the tutor to be
published in 1931, and I added a note to the above paragraph:
 Clough was adamant that this, a technical description of a trill and
an inverted mordent, should be omitted - it was not, but a note was
added to the effect that lifting several fingers at once was not good
technique.

 For me, the skill of Northumbrian piping is to play without resorting 
 to open gracings.

I interpret that as obeying the one finger off at a time rule at all
times, (when possible - it isn't if you're going to use finger
vibrato) but I get my ear bent that I'm ower rigorous in my
interpretation. 
And doubtless will again after this post!

Adrian gives an excellent description of the top a to g note gracing as
sounding like a seagull in pain if not executed properly, which is one
prominent example of open gracing very commonly heard.


HTH
Julia




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[NSP] Re: jhf

2008-08-22 Thread Ormston, Chris
While we're fortunate to have some written evidence of Clough's thoughts on all 
this, it's important to recognise other examples of clean, closed fingering 
from recent history - it's not just a Clough thing.  Joe Hutton's playing 
clearly demonstrated detached fingering and contained few open gracings, and 
I'd urge readers to listen to his earlier recordings - those made when he was a 
well man and before his focus drifted from Northumbrian to strict tempo 
Scottish Country dance repertoire.  George Atkinson's name appears again and 
again on the competition cups, and his contributions on the Wild Hills of 
Wannies LP shows why - some of the most clear, musical interpretations of 
hornpipes you could wish for!

Chris


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On 22 Aug 2008, Ormston, Chris wrote: 
,
 I've just had an off-list request for an explanation of choyting. 
 Clough described it as To grace a note in the manner of a Highland
 piper i.e. to play a grace note, then a melody note without silence
 between the two.  

and (in reference to the 1895 Fenwick tutor):
Regarding the shake: In many instances it is understood and played 
by pipers in the following manner: They lift the principal note, and 
successively strike the note above while the principal note is kept 
running. A grievous error in smallpipe playing. 

Clough had been asked for his opinion on an update of the tutor to be 
published in 1931, and I added a note to the above paragraph:
 Clough was adamant that this, a technical description of a trill 
and an inverted mordent, should be omitted - it was not, but a note 
was added to the effect that lifting several fingers at once was not 
good technique.

 For me, the skill of Northumbrian piping is to play without resorting
 to open gracings. 

I interpret that as obeying the one finger off at a time rule at all 
times, (when possible - it isn't if you're going to use finger 
vibrato) but I get my ear bent that I'm ower rigorous in my 
interpretation. 
And doubtless will again after this post!

Adrian gives an excellent description of the top a to g note gracing 
as sounding like a seagull in pain if not executed properly, which is 
one prominent example of open gracing very commonly heard.


HTH
Julia




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[NSP] Re: The great choyte debate redux

2008-08-22 Thread Ormston, Chris

Where would music be today if tritones had continued to be proscribed and 
thirds widely disapproved of as in the middle ages?

It might have saved us from that Maxwell-Davis stuff grin
 
  



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[NSP] Re: The great choyte debate redux

2008-08-22 Thread Ormston, Chris
I'm afraid I glaze over once we get into classical music theory - my own formal 
training was limited to being forced to learn 3rd clarinet in the junior wind 
band as an 11 year old - enough to put any young musician off for life. As a 
piper I've relied on me fingers and lugs!

Seriously, though, you make an important point about use of ornaments BY 
CHOICE.  Without this we'd never have had the raw expression of Billy Pigg (He 
was a wild piper, but a lovely bloke - Tom Clough IV) or the edgy earthiness 
of the first Cut  Dry LP.  

It's my personal belief that pipers should first ground themselves in the 
closed style before going off to try other things, like Billy Pigg did as a 
pupil of Clough.  As Barry alluded to earlier, it's easier not to learn bad 
habits in the first place rather than to try to undo them later.  In fact I'd 
advocate that new learners should start on a simple set, not just to develop 
skills in the basic octave, but also to preserve the older tunes, but that's 
probably a bit too radical for most on this list, as is my opinion that the 
supply of extended chanters should be subject to a Freudian psychological 
analysis of the purchaser ;-)

Chris


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An analogy FWIW:

I remember reading somewhere (possibly in Boyden's book on the history of 
violin playing, inter alia) that harpsichordist do out of choice (for 
expressive reasons) what string players do out of necessity - in other words 
arpeggiate chords. Lutenists do the same thing so as not to leave the 
instrument empty, as frescobaldi put it.

Could we not make a similar case for the judicious use of choyting out of 
choice for expressive reasons? Doing out of choice what other pipers (not only 
highland) do out of necessity. OK, Tom Clough and others may not (have) 
approve(d) but the odd choyte along with other forms of ornamental surely 
extends rather than restricts the expressive capacity of the instrument - 
doesn't it?

Where would music be today if tritones had continued to be proscribed and 
thirds widely disapproved of as in the middle ages?

Don't all shoot at once ;-)

Chirs
 
  



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[NSP] Re: Articulation

2008-08-22 Thread Ormston, Chris

Paul wrote:

   I don't think Clough meant that everything should be played
   staccatissimo. That's not how he played himself, to judge by the
   recordings.

Quite the opposite - Clough's suggestion was that the notes should be given 
their full length, and the skill was to make the silences in between as short 
as possible.

Chris



  

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[NSP] Re: Seeking The Galloway

2008-07-23 Thread Ormston, Chris
Seeking the Galloway is also on Gordon Mooney's O'er the Border CD, and may 
well be in one of his tune collections

Chris


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'Folk Songs From The North' contains Seeking The Galloway, Silver Street 
Lasses and The Swaggering Lads O' Percy Main.
It's by Gwen and Mary Polwarth, pub. Frank Graham 1970

Richard
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[NSP] Re: Rusty Gulley

2008-07-21 Thread Ormston, Chris
I'd agree, Matt, about the subtle distinction.  On NSP, highly-developed 
chanter skills are required to make evident any differences in emphasis - we 
can't use dynamics and ought not to be choyting, so instead we rely on subtle 
adjustments to note length.  

However. on first hearing All the Night With Jockey years ago (albeit with 
the wrong drone tuning) it struck me that the underlying straight rhythm can be 
heard in different ways and one can perceive a difference in emphasis according 
to how one chooses to listen to the tune. Sometimes it's best to play the piece 
'straight' and let the inherent syncopations speak for themselves (I never 
thought I'd believe all that bunkum from the modern jazz people about learning 
to listen differently grin)

A more-recent example is the variation on Jim Hall's Fancy (I think it's the 
last one, that was er..., borrowed from Clough's Nae Guid Luck variations), 
where the minuet-style rhythm momentarily gives way to jig time, no matter 
where one tries to put the emphasis!!

Chris




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Good examples, John. Everything you mention here I would consider as
syncopation rather than change of metre, or in the case of Risty
Gulley, alternating metre. Maybe this is a too-subtle distinction, but
it's one that I experience. I use syncopation a lot in my own playing,
and for me it works precisely because the underlying 'straight' rhythm
is there as a context for the sophisticated syncopations snaking
sinuously out of my chanter.

AFAIK no other sources notate RG in alternating metre. Why would they?
It's simply wrong. Not to put too fine a point on it, Vickers was
'sort-of' musically literate - he knew what he meant, but didn't write
it 'correctly'. When *played in G*, does Jack Lattin have one sharp,
as everyone else plays it, or three sharps, as Vickers writes?
Numerous other examples can be cited.

One thing I learnt in the 21-year gap between my editions of Vickers
was context. There is a huge contextual literature around many of
these tunes; when the only person saying something different from
*everyone else* is not known for his accuracy he is not necessarily
the genius who is the only one to discern the truth, even if some of
us find his quirks appealing.



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[NSP] RE: [NSP] Främling Composers ..

2008-07-07 Thread Ormston, Chris
That's why I tend to favour Clough repertoire, where the only concern is to 
differentiate between some Tom, Dick or Harry ;-)

Chris

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Whilst at Newcastleton at the weekend I was playing 'Happy Hours' and  
got into a nerdy discussion about composers .. and I got it mixed up  
:) So in an attempt to clear it up and given that lots of people who  
were there are on this list ..

Emile Vacher who composed Happy Hours was in fact a French  
accordionist whose heyday was in the 1920's and 30's ( I think).

The Glaswegian fiddler who allegedly changed his name to sound more  
exotic/authentic/continental was in fact Parazotti (composer of The  
Bank's). His grandfather was Italian and had moved to Glasgow much  
earlier. So it might have been a resurrected family name as well..

Rob






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[NSP] Re: Flowers...OT

2008-04-07 Thread Ormston, Chris
Vickers at weddings?? I think you meant Vicars ;-)

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On 6 Apr 2008, Richard York wrote: 

  inappropriate tunes for weddings? 

Ooh, good, I need a giggle:

The Bride's No a Maid  (topical -its in Vickers!)
The Clumsy Lover (good tune...erno further comment)

Julia



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