[NSP] Musette drawings

2010-02-07 Thread Bob Salter
I was trawling through an old folder, stuff I downloaded and scans of old books when I came across a fairly complete set of drawings of a musette. Where I got them is lost in the mists of time however I am curious how good they are. They are scans of drawings drawn on graph paper and

[NSP] Re: NSP Facebook group

2010-02-07 Thread Bill Carr
Well it's an old photo. I don't use the "Up and Go's" anymore... you should see me in a kilt though :-) Bill - Original Message - From: Yes, Bill, that URL does work. And allow me to say that you may win some sort of award for "Most peculiar profile photo"! Alec

[NSP] Re: Memories of Father Angus MacDonell

2010-02-07 Thread Francis Wood
Great to hear from you, Jim! Do you (or does anyone else) know of other great tunes by Mike MacDougall? Best wishes, Francis On 7 Feb 2010, at 18:12, Jim Stewart wrote: > Thanks for posting this Francis. I hadn't seen it before. > Nice to see some attention paid to the music on this side of th

[NSP] Re: Memories of Father Angus MacDonell

2010-02-07 Thread Jim Stewart
On 2/07/2010 1:09 PM, Francis Wood wrote: A Youtube item in two parts in memory of Mike MacDougall, Cape Breton fiddler and composer of Memories of Father Angus MacDonell, that very fine tune which is well known to pipers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l6QcKtwUXo http://www.youtube.com/watch

[NSP] Re: NSP Facebook group

2010-02-07 Thread CalecM
Yes, Bill, that URL does work. And allow me to say that you may win some sort of award for "Most peculiar profile photo"! Alec In a message dated 2/7/2010 8:32:02 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, james...@online.no writes: SighSorry about this.. I think this URL actually

[NSP] Memories of Father Angus MacDonell

2010-02-07 Thread Francis Wood
A Youtube item in two parts in memory of Mike MacDougall, Cape Breton fiddler and composer of Memories of Father Angus MacDonell, that very fine tune which is well known to pipers. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7l6QcKtwUXo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVeJ_RkxGFg&NR=1 Rather a lot of talking

[NSP] Re: NSP Facebook group

2010-02-07 Thread Bill Carr
SighSorry about this.. I think this URL actually works. http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=291889707722&ref=search&sid=695896937.2624794321..1 Bill - Original Message - From: "Bill Carr" To: Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 11:58 AM Subject: Re: [NSP] NSP Facebook group

[NSP] Re: NSP duet with other instruments now OT

2010-02-07 Thread Richard York
Haven't tried cyanide, but did "do" Wagner with passionate Wagner-phile 'A' level Music teacher many years ago. Sorry, Paul, it was as a result of that I got to dislike them... but hope you enjoy The Ring Cycle! Best wishes and apologies to all for another OT excursion! Richard.

[NSP] Re: NSP duet with other instruments

2010-02-07 Thread Francis Wood
On 7 Feb 2010, at 13:38, Paul Gretton wrote: > Nice one, Richard. But did you know that a recent survey showed that 96.83% > of people who say that they "don't like Wagner's operas" have never actually > heard or attended one? ;-) Actually I don't like cyanide. Never tried it though, I must adm

[NSP] Re: NSP duet with other instruments

2010-02-07 Thread Paul Gretton
>>>(Official Disclaimer: the terms, "Great mix" and "smashing" here >>>represent expressions of personally held opinions of musical taste, for >>>which I alone am responsible, and with which others may find they wish to >>>disagree. >>>This is their right, just as some people love Wagner's Operas

[NSP] Re: NSP duet with other instruments

2010-02-07 Thread Richard York
And there's also the great mix of Andy May's pipes & Sophie Ball's fiddle on his Happy Hours CD. Smashing. (Official Disclaimer: the terms, "Great mix" and "smashing" here represent expressions of personally held opinions of musical taste, for which I alone am responsible, and with which othe

[NSP] Re: NSP duet with other instruments

2010-02-07 Thread rosspipes
The High Level Ranters were based on the mix of fiddle and pipes that I had discovered with Forster Charlton in the lat 1950's. Colin R -Original Message- From: John Dally To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 19:45 Subject: [NSP] NSP duet with other instruments I've been li

[NSP] Re: NSP Facebook group

2010-02-07 Thread Bill Carr
.. And let Bill Carr learn how to cut and paste URL's. Having trouble getting the correct link. http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=291889707722 Bill To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] NSP Facebook group

2010-02-07 Thread Bill Carr
Welcome to the Northumbrian Pipers Facebook group. Highland pipers have an untold number of groups but as far as I know this is the first for NSP'ers. Lets use it to spread the word on this wonderful instrument. Please list your info, photos, videos and links related to the NSP. Lets make this a