Nice one John!
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>[mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Gibbons, John
>Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2011 9:50 PM
>To: Anthony Robb; nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu; rob@milecastle27.co.uk
>Subject: [NSP] Re: Concertina Tuning
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>"Oth
John, please remember I was talking in the context of switching off
drones to let the music shine forth, not silly things like playing a
semitone above everyone else!
Many general music sessions involve key changes from G to D to A.
Are you saying that pipes should not be adding th
Hi Mike,
You have the right man in Colin Dipper!
A very Rolls Royce of concertina tuners, who 25 years ago rescued my
lovely anglo from a botch job someone else had done, and has looked
after it from time to time ever since.
And on the other hand, you probably already know that unless there's
Please can John's advice be etched on metal plates, and nailed to all
bodhrans ? ;-) [Cajons too]
Richard, (among whose dearest friends was once a superb bodhran player.
Just a few are out there.)
On 07/01/2011 09:41, christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu wrote:
Nice one John!
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Not at all - but pipes do sound better with drones, which are a fundamental
part of the instrument,
and also of what we might call 'proper' pipe music.
There are some tunes where drones don't work,
and some multi-instrument arrangements where they might get in the way,
but - on pipe tunes at le
What you say is true, but still ignores Paddy Maloney's point of adding
drones further into (even 'proper') pipes tunes for greater impact.
We also have to remember that out of tune drones (and this
unfortunately is the norm it seems to me) do little to enhance the
music. This is tr
> out of tune drones (and this
> unfortunately is the norm it seems to me) do little to enhance the
> music. This is true even in the most surprising quarters i.e. modern
> recordings where retakes could be done fairly easily to
>correct this.
I was starting to wonder whether I was the o
Anthony,
Certainly adding drones on the 2nd time through, works well on UP, especially
on airs.
Irish slow airs, being usually vocal music rather than pipe music, maybe don't
require a drone so fundamentally.
Musically this idea makes less sense on drone music though - double-tonic tunes
etc.
Hello John
In reverse order, switching off drones is certainly a cop out if the
player is capable of tuning up properly in the first place otherwise
it seems fairly sensible to keep them off (in public at least) until
that stage is reached. I'm particularly thinking of the 'drones a
If any UP fans haven't heard this album or others want to know more,
it was released 31 years ago but has been redone on CD and is available
at Amazon: (for UK readers)
[1]http://www.amazon.co.uk/Doublin-Paddy-Glackin/dp/B4SCTK/ref=sr_1
_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1294413475&sr=8-4
This
I'd agree completely about this record. Lovely! I must dig it out again.
The precision is what marks it out from a lot of lesser performances, Irish or
from wherever.
John
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From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of
Anthony Robb
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Richard
Colin also plays serpent for our morris side and plays concertina in our
local sessions ( along with his son John on fiddle - awesome!) as well
which helps , and I too have been lucky so far, he turned my English one
round and sold it on for me in a matter of a few weeks.
I never really
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 3:55 PM, Gibbons, John
<[1]j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk> wrote:
I'd agree completely about this record. Lovely! I must dig it out
again.
The precision is what marks it out from a lot of lesser
performances, Irish or from wherever.
I am so relieved t
This talk of drone tuning reminded me of something.
Some years ago, someone on this list directed us to a website which had (I
hope I can explain this and make sense) a keynote playing and you had to use
sliders to tune the drones (using the mouse) and got a score for how near
you were (it was
Colin, the thing you recall is Rob Say's Northumbrian Smallpipes Simulator:
http://www.milecastle27.co.uk/simulator/
I'm sure that Rob might reply himself, omitting to say how absolutely brilliant
it is.
So I shall do so instead.
Francis
On 7 Jan 2011, at 18:53, Colin wrote:
> This talk of d
I agree, it made sense for me as an isolated complete beginner.
Interesting discussion re uillean pipes, as one of the only Northumbrian pipers
in Ireland (and can barely call meself that) I found that when I contacted a
few uillean pipemakers here, I was surprised how little they knew about t
Two hornpipes as you've never heard them before -
The Wordsfail Hornpipe followed by Loudrocks.
http://stash.alonetone.com/mp3/13649/Redesdale_Proudlocks_Hesleyside-WyrDGeneS.mp3
I must say, I really like this.
To find out more, Google 'Wyrdgenes'
Francis
To get on or off this list see li
And I love the Glackin & Keenan record too, I haven't heard it for ages
but it used to really fire me up, it has The Juice.
(Matt)
And at 8.99 GBP surely the best value music CD online this year!!
Anthony
PS John G is a sharp as a broken pisspot (as we say up/down here) and I
Clever and funny, Francis, well spotted
On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Francis Wood
<[1]oatenp...@googlemail.com> wrote:
Two hornpipes as you've never heard them before -
The Wordsfail Hornpipe followed by Loudrocks.
[2]http://stash.alonetone.com/mp3/13649/Redesdale_Proud
Very daft.
`It's Northumbrian music cap'n but not as we know it'
The track continues with Hesleyside Reel,
and finally brings out, wonderfully, the true treacliness of Sweet Hesleyside.
Can he please murder Rothbury Hills too for an encore maybe?
It needs it.
I will be going back to the site for a
Thanks for the reminder about the Glackin/Keenan CD. It will always
be associated with the solace it gave me while holed up in a Manhattan
hotel during a week of terrifyingly dull business meetings.
As for NSP & concertina, if you haven't yet listened to Rob Say's CD
"O'er Lang at the Fair" Vetera
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