Anthony Robb wrote:
Here's a wee snippet of Will Atkinson playing some of Madame
B.,Fiddler's Cramp and Mrs Forbes Farewell to Banff. I think we can all
learn something from his clean controlled playing. What think you?
[1]http://www.robbpipes.com/WillAtkinson
Doesn't work on our c
It's Miss Forbes' Farewell to Banff (NPS Folio 2005 p8).
As John points out, played as a Rant - not quite as written.
Best
Anthony
--- On Mon, 26/10/09, Dally, John wrote:
From: Dally, John
Subject: [NSP] Re: Old Guy
To: "NSP group"
Date: Monday, 26 October,
A. That's great! What is the last tune in the set, and isn't that last
tune a classic example of the rant rhythm?
Thanks for putting that up, Anthony.
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Sent: Monday, Oct
Once, in my Irish music days, I got all the versions of a half-dozen tunes
together that I could find -
a short list, including Kiss the maid behind the Barrel/Trim the Velvet,
Colonel Frazer, Coppers and Brass; all were recorded in several places, and
transcribed a lot too. Some transcription
I have found it very useful to load a number of tracks by different players or
players of other instruments playing this music. I set the play back to random.
This means that you get very different players and styles adjacent. It is
thought provoking. Alternatively I have assembled playlists tha
Karen reckons that to play accordian well you listen to excellent
>playing on flute, fiddle, almost anything other than box, and try to
>incorporate their characteristic sounds into the accordian,
>rather than
>just trying to play good accordian.
I reckon proper pipers could learn a lot about
Hello Richard
Thanks for that.
Duplicates - me too!
As aye
Anthony
--- On Mon, 26/10/09, Richard York
wrote:
From: Richard York
Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: Old Guy
To: "Anthony Robb" , "NSP group"
Date: Monday, 26 October, 2009, 12:00 PM
Thanks Anth
Thanks Anthony,
and it is indeed fantastic playing, well worth the listen.
John Doonan's advice sounds like that of Karen Tweed (the accordian
player the rest try to copy).
Karen reckons that to play accordian well you listen to excellent
playing on flute, fiddle, almost anything other than box,
Hello Richard
I've put a smaller file on the same link,
[1]http://www.robbpipes.com/WillAtkinson (& a photo of yours truly
with Will & Joe).
I know Will didn't play the pipes but I'm trying to follow the advice
of John Doonan (pal of Billy Pigg, Archie Bertram et al.) 36 years a
