[NSP] Re: Alice Burn

2011-05-20 Thread chris
Wonderful! Thanks for the link. Chris Hello folks There may be one or two apart from Adrian interested in the Alice person. Here she is playing with Emily Hoile at the Chantry Museum last night for the Windy Gyle Band Force 6 launch. This won't be to everyone's liking

[NSP] Re: Alice Burn

2011-05-20 Thread Francis Wood
On 19 May 2011, at 22:28, Anthony Robb wrote: Here she is playing with Emily Hoile at the Chantry Museum last night Definitely the right kind of Hoile . . . Lovely item, Anthony! Got any more? Francis To get on or off this list see list information at

[NSP] Re: Various

2011-05-20 Thread Christopher.Birch
Tune in E maj on G chanter - the A part has about 78 notes and 62 of them are played on the right thumb so even electronic pipes don't help unless of course you cheat by electronically transposing. Assuming that Catriona's fiddle was at concert pitch and that she was playing in E

[NSP] Re: Alice Burn - hear Emily play

2011-05-20 Thread Christopher.Birch
Delightful, and what a weird and wonderful approach to the harp! C -Original Message- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Robb Sent: Thursday, May 19, 2011 11:29 PM To: Dartmouth NPS Subject: [NSP] Alice Burn Hello folks There

[NSP] Alice's Chanter

2011-05-20 Thread Anthony Robb
On Fri, 20/5/11, christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu wrote: I think the most likely explanation for the pipes would be that Alice was playing a chanter in concert F sharp. In nominal terms this would put her in F, with B flat the only unusual note.

[NSP] Re: Alice Burn

2011-05-20 Thread Anthony Robb
--- On Fri, 20/5/11, Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com wrote: Lovely item, Anthony! Got any more? Only the two they did on the CD. Emily arrived back from the States on Saturday but she has already started working on material for an album with Alice which we hope to start

[NSP] Re: Alice Burn - hear Emily play

2011-05-20 Thread inky-adrian
This is not Northumberland Smallpipe-playing. The player choytes. The player slides into notes too. Staccato rules! -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] Re: Alice Burn - hear Emily play

2011-05-20 Thread John Dally
Going where angels fear to tread I know Inky is defending the one true faith and all that, which I respect, but when one falls back onto technique as the ultimate while seeming to not hear amazing technique (even if one doesn't agree philosophically with all of it) one's

[NSP] Re: Alice Burn - hear Emily play

2011-05-20 Thread Zack Arbios
Reminds me of the epic gulf between Seumas Macneill and Gordon Duncan. For Adrian, Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? (and I am a great admirer of what I can see of your playing) I enjoyed Emily's playing, although it far eclipses my ability for any forseeable future, but does