Paul, you made my day! I needed a good harmless giggle. It's brilliant.
I've pinned it up by my desk for next and any time I need a lift.
The original is a long-time favourite of mine for sadder moments.
Daphne
On 4 Jan 2009, at 17:28, Paul Gretton wrote:
Ladeez and genteelmen!! Welcome
>>>The start of the rant beat is the opposite of trochhee and
>more iambic
>>>with two extra strong beats following the iambic te-tum. i.e.
>te->>tum,tum,tum.
>
>Err... Matt's illustration ("Nuts and raisins") is definitely
>two trochees.
>
Yes, confusing, isn't it?
Long live conventional notati
>>-Original Message-
>>From: christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu
>>So an iamb followed by a spondee? Let's just stick to the ever clear dots
>>eh?
>>c
Yes, but how are we going to do that on this forum when we want to talk
about how tune rhythms go and normal musical notation can't be dis
I've never found the verbalisations of rhythms particularly helpful -
but that's just me. And I did once know about spondees and trochees
(didn't James Thurber illustrate these rather brilliantly?) but it
became surplus info many years ago.
Faced with a tune that I'm not sure is a rant or reel
julia@nspipes.co.uk wrote:
Like Chris, I am concerned at some of the material now being
preferred by players. There is a difference between "playing music on
the Northumbrian smallpipes" and "Northumbrian piping", and the
latter must not get swamped by the former or the tradition will be
g
So an iamb followed by a spondee? Let's just stick to the ever clear dots eh?
c
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>Sent: Sunday, January 04, 2009 6:47 PM
>To: i...@gretton-willems.com
>Cc: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu
>Subject: [NSP] Re: Ranting and raving
Hi All
I am writing this on behalf of Ken Campbell who has had technical
difficulties posting to the list.
G NSP by Dave Shaw, 11 key blackwood chanter, 4 boxwood drones.
Totally overhauled by the maker in 2008
Ken is asking £850 and can be contacted on
+44[0]7808 173 483 OR campbell@talk21
I'm told that only recently Tommy Breckons made a similar comment about NSP!
"I am reminded of a article written by Pat McNulty, the Glasgow based
uilleann piper, reflecting on the first 30 years of Na Piobairi Uilleann
and the great increase in popularity of uilleann pipes in that time. He
con
It would be too obvious say the same about Border pipes, so I'd better not..
On 1/5/09, Chris Ormston wrote:
> I'm told that only recently Tommy Breckons made a similar comment about NSP!
>
> "I am reminded of a article written by Pat McNulty, the Glasgow based
> uilleann piper, reflecting on the
I can't think of a single word that will
>do but no doubt some one will.
Untunable? Unbareable?
c
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Hi All
I understood that the idea behind the first thirty tunes was that it
should be a repertoire which isolated pipers could master in order to
be able to join in 'gatherings' of pipers. This is entirely different
to compiling a book of music which will help someone become a piper.
I have al
The two books NSP1 and the Charlton Memorial book are a good overview
of the repertoire - what people actually played - as seen in the
mid-20th century.
The Peacock collection does the same job for the beginning of the 19th,
and so contains a higher proportion of purpose-built sma
On 5 Jan 2009, gibbonssoi...@aol.com wrote:
>If you can find a copy, Matt's edition of Bewick's MS
The NPS is currently in negotiation with Matt to publish a new
edition of this. No dates promised, but we'll do what we can.
Julia
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There are two sides to this argument. Perhaps, both are valid.
Go to any Highland games and you'll hear lots of technically correct
Scottish piping. But is it music? Is it traditional? And if it is
traditional, in what way is it traditional? Are they Pipers? They
spent thousand
Hi everyone,
I'm selling an 11 key Burleigh set in F+ pitch with four drones with
tuning slides and beads. Bag is purple velvet and the belows are walnut.
The set plays in tune and has a nice sound (I had problems with the
top e, but having heard the set in the hands of a good piper, I can
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