The question is whether choyting is *morally* wrong.
Inflicting horrible noises on the unsuspecting public, because it's
easier, and passing it off as 'traditional' in the absence of much
evidence that it was ever common in the tradition, could be regarded as
both selfish and dishonest...
Doing
On 16 Sep 2008, at 14:06, Gibbons, John wrote:
The question is whether choyting is *morally* wrong.
Undesirable, certainly, but not actually illegal, as is stated in the
item below which I noticed recently during a visit to a town well
known for its piping activities.
Francis
I would like to suggest that if we are going to discuss choyting again
and want to refer to bagpipes with an open-ended chanter, we
distinguish between
- cuttings, i.e. the obligatory super-short notes that are
necessary on an open-ended chanter in order to articulate at
Well said, Chris.
I'd add that, even without the traditional examples, the instrument
itself is a good teacher. All musical instruments have their peculiar
abilities and constraints and this is particularly true of NSPs. Our
pipes alone, among other bagpipes, have the capability of
Thanks Francis,
I'm not aware of any more George Atkinson recordings. I was fortunate
enough to spend a few afternoons with him circa 1977, and while he was a
little out of practice, he managed to combine detached fingering with
delightful musicality.
Chris
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You mentioned George Atkinson as a good exponent of that style. I have
heard only the three tracks on the Wild Hills O'Wannie LP. I like them
a lot. Are there other recordings of him?
There are a two recordings of him on FARNE. (
I have found the link to the recordings but the files themselves are
apparently ont there. Has anyone had more luck than me?
Barry
On 16 Sep 2008 at 10:20, Mike Sharp wrote:
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You mentioned George Atkinson as a good exponent of that style. I
Barry, after several tries, I succeeded in saving and opening the Sweet
Hesleyside set, mp3 form. The other tune link is still telling me the page
isn't available. I'm wondering if the site only allows for a few to access
at a time, and many of us have been trying at once.
Honor
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After posting I noticed that I could only play the second recording.
The first seems to be missing or incorrectly linked.
--Mike
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For those of us who live locally and were thinking of coming to the
Chantry?this Saturday,?Maureen Davison has offered to host us for this meeting
at least. Her address is in the Handbook.
Colin R
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The second recording IS there but the m3u file that links to it isn't.
The actual mp3 file is at
http://www.asaplive.com/farneaudio/m3u/W2301005.mp3 but please remember that
the files are not for download for various reasons (copyright etc) but I
think you can stream them from that link.
OK. I managed to get the Sweet Hesleyside set, and having listened
to it I managed to view it in Audacity (an audio editing program).
In general. I am reluctant to give an opinion based purely on my own
aural judgement for three reasons.
1) hearing is very subjective and it is easy for the
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