[NSP] Re: April 2012 Tune of the Month: Morpeth Rant

Rant book and I hope folks will enjoy this four part effort warts and all. Ian http://www.travelingpiper.bagpipediscs.com/morpethrant.mp3 John Dally wrote: Ian Lawther has chosen THE MORPETH RANT for April's Tune of the Month. There are lots different settings out there. Ma

[NSP] Re: rapper dancing

I don't know of any recordings played at proper rapper speed but you might not want to start there anyway! One thought might be to look for some rapper videos on youtube and capture the sound to your computer. Ian DEREK LOFTHOUSE wrote: This is a little off topic, but i am looking for a lit

[NSP] Re: Matching tune parts.....

ad of the afdf Afdf of the later version it goes to the low A at the end of the first four notes so is afdA Afdf an dthis pattern follows through the part. Ian Lawther wrote: I was playing through Tom Clough's Bobby Shaftoe this evening and realized that the 6th part is identical in patt

[NSP] Matching tune parts.....

and 6 and dot,cut,cut,dot in 3,4,and 7 while Shaftoe is in C and even throughout but the only note difference is in final four notes of the seventh bar where Barren Rocks sticks to the previous patterns and has AECE while Clough partially inverts what has come before to GBDB. Ian Lawther To g

[NSP] Re: Peacock Follows the Hen videos

I enjoyed that far more than I expected to! I'm now listening to other tracks and can see myself working through the whole jukebox as the day goes on. Over the years I've heard a lot of people trying to rock up traditional music but this chap is something else..he's not watering down the tu

[NSP] Re: Deaf/dead

As I need to make a birthday cake for tomorrow I am likely to be doing some piping. Ian si...@leveau8.fsnet.co.uk wrote: I assume all this food based music will be played on a crumpet or a cornetto --Original Message-- From: Gibbons, John Sender: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu To: 'Franci

[NSP] Re: Deaf/dead

Thank you Frances.you had me whistling the Radetzky March while cooking breakfast.I'm probably stuck with it for the day! Ian Francis Wood wrote: On 21 Jun 2011, at 14:54, Tim Rolls wrote: Popapoms would be the Australian version then? Well, which country is this? : Pop

[NSP] Tune books with arrangements for other instruments

I know there have been some books published in the past that include tune arrangements for Northumbrian pipes and other instruments though as someone who is normally a solo player I haven't taken much notice..until now. I need to encourage an 11 year old flautist and 12 year old cellist to

[NSP] Re: Rules

barr...@nspipes.co.uk wrote: We have a strong piping community We have a viable society Several years ago I read a review of the first 25 or 30 years (forget which) of Na Piobairi Uilleann written by Pat McNulty in an Irish music magazine. His final comment stuck with me"There are more p

[NSP] Re: Still looking for an F set!

I suspect John was being humourous.after all if you ask five pipers for recommendations on makers you will often get six answers and and an argument (and thats just among the pipe makers!). I don't know if Mike Nelson is doing much making these days but he is in Cambridge and therefore loc

[NSP] Re: Has there ever been an NSP with _all_ keys (no open holes)?

The American uilleann pipe maker Patsy Brown made uilleann pipes with keys on all the holes. The only picture I can find on line is rather small but is at http://www.lemccullough.com/LEMcCullough/Music-Biography_files/PatsyBrown-filtered.jpg A larger copy of this appears in Patrick Sky's uille

[NSP] Re: [NPS-Discussion] Tommy's day April 2nd

I can't help thinking that for next year the Pacific North West piping group should move their meeting at this time of year to the same day and descend on Peter Dyson's house so that we too can play in Bellingham.. Ian Malcolm Craven wrote: Tommy’s Day Now in its second year, ‘Tomm

[NSP] Bewicks "German Spa"

I've just noticed a tune called "German Spa" in Bewick and wondered if it is, by definition, a Bad tune! Ian To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] Re: [NPS-Discussion] Sharing "Thomas Sander"

Karl's book ( http://scottshighland.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=348 ) is published by Scott's Highland Supply and they should be able to give you some information on him. He was still alive in 2007 but probably in his late 60s. Ian Julia Say wrote: On 19 Jan 2011, richard.hea..

[NSP] Re: Introduction from Arlington, Virginia

I don't know if there will be a spare set in WV but we can certainly make sure you get a chance to try a seteven if it is only mine! Ian Matthew Boris wrote: Greetings, Just joined the list and thought I'd introduce myself. I live in Northern Virginia currently, previously lived

[NSP] Re: Help please

Ian Lawther wrote: I'm using ubuntu linux and I can't get the clips to play at all - though they do on the Hooky Mat pages. Also the writing on the site overlaps line on line as can be seen from the screen shot attached. It didn't attach so I am trying to embed it. I ho

[NSP] Re: Help please

I'm using ubuntu linux and I can't get the clips to play at all - though they do on the Hooky Mat pages. Also the writing on the site overlaps line on line as can be seen from the screen shot attached. When I have had problems like this I often go back and re-read and angryish rant from the great

[NSP] My little tune sponge....

My youngest daughter (10) has always been a little bit of a tune sponge though she has refused to join the school choir (much to the teachers disappointment) and only recently took up an instrument (flute). Last night she was whistling something from Holst's The Planets which she picked up some

[NSP] Re: Costs of sending CDs

I calculate the shipping of CDs for my business ( www,bagpipediscs.com - shameless plug!)as being 6 ounces including packaging. For a disc to the UK that costs $5.64. However this assumes a disc with liner notes and a regular jewel case. Using a slim case and padded envelope can bring this down

[NSP] Re: Proudlock's Hornpipe - earliest reference?

Monck's March is an old tune now associated with morris dancing. General Monck was a parliamentarian in the civil war largely involved in actions in Scotland. After the death of Oliver Cromwell and his replacement by Thomas Cromwell the Commonwealth started to collapse. Monck changed allegianc

[NSP] Re: Painting on ebay

Looks like an uilleann piper to me. The set has the older style chanter stock that tied straight into the bag but due to chanter length gave a fairly sharp angle at the end of the neck. You can also see the brass drone stock cup coming out of the bag and facing downwards towards his right knee.

[NSP] Re: The Grand Chain

I seem to remember hearing that when this tune was introduced into Northumberland from Quebec the title was mistranslated as The Grand Chain and this is what it has gone by for many years (no translation was given in the first edition of The Third Tune Book). Later someone discovered the origin

[NSP] Re: Drone Reed Tongue Video

http://www.youtube.com/user/StephenDouglass Robert Edwards wrote: Where is this video uploaded? Cheers! On Mon, Jun 7, 2010 at 7:01 PM, STEPHEN DOUGLASS <[1]us...@comcast.net> wrote: I am uploading sections of a video of Colin Ross making the tongue for a metal bodied d

[NSP] Re: Simon and Garfunkel - Fakin' It

27;Beverley Martyn' Ian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beverley_Martyn On Apr 20, 2010, at 7:12 PM, Ian Lawther wrote: This afternoon I was in a Starbucks killing a little time before collection a child from school and suddenly realized I was hearing The Redesdale Hornpipe over the sound system u

[NSP] Simon and Garfunkel - Fakin' It

This afternoon I was in a Starbucks killing a little time before collection a child from school and suddenly realized I was hearing The Redesdale Hornpipe over the sound system under a lot of other arranged music. Checking the screen on which the shop shows what is playing I saw it was a Simon

[NSP] Re: Travel bag for pipes

Depending on the length of your trip you could follow the idea of one piper here who for a weekend workshop would pack his clothes in his hard pipe case and check it and put his pipes in a soft holdall to carry on. As soon as possible after arrival he would switch pipes to case and clothes to h

[NSP] Re: Travel bag for pipes

Within the US and between the US and UK I always take them in my regular pipe case though it sounds like some European budget airlines have stiffer rules. Like Sheila I always announce that they are bagpipes as I put them forward to the x-ray. The only time this caused a stir was getting on a U

[NSP] Re: [Re: Holy/Holey Halfpenny]

Gibbons, John wrote: Oddly 'Poll Hapenny', an Irish set dance, seems sometimes to appear as Holy Ha'penny (I'll check tonight in Breathnach); - I never thought of this as a personal name but assumed a reference to a 1/2d tax per head...maybe I have an odd way of thinking of things

[NSP] Re: Holy/Holey Halfpenny

I've always assumed Holey Ha'penny and as such used to pair it with The Crookit Bawbee. In the late 1970s/early 80s I would dedicated this pairing to the West Midlands Regional Crime Squad which at the time was being investigated for being full of bent coppers... Ian Matt Seattle wrote:

[NSP] Re: What Do You Call Yourself?

I refer to myself as a Northumbrian piper in such circumstances. Happy New Year, Ernie (and everyone else) Ian Ernie Shultis wrote: I have a serious question for you, whom I recognize as the panel of experts. There is a church near by that on Thursdays during the warmer months has

[NSP] Liestman 7 keyed set for sale

Larry Jordan, in San Antonio, Texas, has advertised his Liestman Northumbrian pipes on the Bob Dunsire forum and I am copying the ad here for those who might be looking for a good set:- Liestman 7 key traditional Key NSP with bellows and case. $937 email if interested, pop...@aol.com

[NSP] Re: musette

Philip Gruar wrote: The Palladian Ensemble have recorded the Vivaldi/Chedeville Four Seasons, on a CD called Les Saisons Amusantes - haven't checked to see if it's still available - with Jean-Pierre Rasle on musette and Nigel Eaton, hurdy-gurdy. I have a couple of copies in stock at bagpipe

[NSP] Re: CD track listing omission - Border Minstrel

It is not listed on the LP either...Track 1 Side A has High Level, Biddleston, Carrick and I'll Get Wedded In My Auld Claes. Ian Julia Say wrote: Playing through all the Billy Pigg recordings I have whilst working on the tune transcriptions, I have just noticed that the listing for track 1 of

[NSP] Re: An enquiry - Pallister family of Cambo - 3 xi 2009

marga...@wyngarth7.fsnet.co.uk wrote: My guess is that it may have been Jimmy Pallister There are recordings of him playing three or four tracks on 'Morpeth Rant' - Sounds like it was him from the Morpeth Rant notes "A retired blacksmith, living in Cambo, Jimmy Pallister started to learn the

[NSP] Re: Route to piping addendum

Since hitting send on my recent message a memory has come into my mind.. In the early 1980s I applied to come to Newcastle to do teacher training. At the interview the two staff members perused my application and one spotted that I played the Northumbrian pipes. "We had a chap apply once w

[NSP] Route to piping

Anthony Robb wrote: I came into piping via a route involving David Hillery, Colin Caisley and Tom Clough nothing to do with NPS but I thought such individual routes were fairly rare. Are you saying most of the nsp list people would also trace a route where no one from the NPS was is t

[NSP] Re: Colin Ross and all that

ng place to reassess Colin Ross not as an officer of a society but as a very important part of Northumbrian piping, pipe making and Northumbrian music as a whole. Ian Lawther Anthony Robb wrote: Is it unreasonable to suggest that there'd be no nsp if it wasn't for the NPS and t

[NSP] Respringing a key

One of the springs on my chanter has become very weak and is, I fear, about to break. I have the choice of returning it to the maker for respringing (a trans Atlantic posting job), getting a maker here in the US to do it (a couple of options - more if I consider other local folk woodwind makers

[NSP] Re: acrylic impregnated wood

See my post that crossed with yours, Helen. Ray was one of those I was referring to when I said about others following Brian Gumm's lead though I wasn't 100% certain so didn't want to name names. My Permali pipes are also "maintenance free". While living in the Washington DC area I would get m

[NSP] Re: ivory pipe tone

Would Permali ( http://www.permalideho.co.uk/permali.html ) fall into this category? This is the material my border pipes are made from, and I believe the maker, Brian Gumm, pioneered the use of it for pipes, though some others experimented after him. Brian was a carpenter at a colliery near As

[NSP] Re: Call and response.

I've just finished reading William Donaldson's book on Scottish piping "Pipers" and in the final section he looks at a couple of tunes. In analyzing the piobaireachd Black Donald's March he refers a single short figure "repeatedly asserted, and alternating with other set figures to produce an a

[NSP] Re: Cut and Dry Dolly

Pure speculation but is there a chance that "cut and dry" herbs were woven into bunches like a corn "dolly"? Ian Richard Leach wrote: A good old tune, for sure, but what does the title mean? If a song, has anyone the words? Dolly an historical figure? The web is silent on her. I can find

[NSP] Re: Competitions and those far away

Having taught a lesson via Skype I would say that could be very interesting given the time lags the system has :-) Ian amble skuse wrote: you could even have an award for the best skype duet, competitiors should be on different continents. Amble 2009/8/14 Ian Lawther <[1]irl

[NSP] Re: Competitions and those far away

Good thought Steve - perhaps only the Open could be webcast in the way only the Grade 1 World Pipe Band contest is. The phone reference brings up another (looney) idea. Do away with the overseas class and have entries in real time via Skype as part of the main classes at the competitions..

[NSP] Competitions and those far away.......

This Saturday will see Glasgow hosting the World Pipe Band Championships and for the first time the BBC will be streaming the event world wide. http://www.bbc.co.uk/scotland/music/worlds/2009/ Is it possible for some clever person with a webcam and laptop to work out a way to broadcast competiti

[NSP] Re: Greetings!

Yes The Pipers Gathering is what used to be in North Hero. Another event that is closer to you is the piping weekend in January Shepherdstown WV. Details of last years are at http://upmw.smad.us/piperswknd/index.html Ian Robert Edwards wrote: Thanks for the welcome, one and all! I won't be

[NSP] Re: Happy Hours

Happy Hours was Emile Vacher a French accordionist and appears in Matt Seattle's Yelllow Northumbrian PIpers Pocket Book. Some years ago I picked up a CD of Vacher and his dance band in a hypermarket in Calais. It was made from recordings done in the 1920s and 30s and disappointingly does not

[NSP] Andy May's new CD (commercial post)

A few weeks back I said I would be getting some copies of this in at bagpipediscs once the US distributor had them. It turned out the distributor had only ordered 2 copies to serve the US market Those two had already been bagged by members of this list before I received them and I now h

[NSP] Re: Aural tradition

Anthony Robb wrote: Many musicians kept books of dots to help them remember tunes. On reading this my thoughts went straight to an incident when I was a teenager in a pipe band. The Pipe Major, probably around 60 then, was teaching a group of us youngsters a tune. One of my fellow teens star

[NSP] Re: smallpipes

The link doesn't work correctly but you can cut and paste the URL to see it. Ian Lawther wrote: Adrian wrote: What are the Northumberland bagpipes;what are they? They are something extremely raremust be true - it says so here http://pro.corbis.com/search/Enlargement.aspx?CID=isg&

[NSP] Re: smallpipes

Adrian wrote: What are the Northumberland bagpipes;what are they? They are something extremely raremust be true - it says so here http://pro.corbis.com/search/Enlargement.aspx?CID=isg&mediauid={8A307924-903A-4ECE-ABF4-5C68EBAD5E6E} Ian To get on or off this list see list information at

[NSP] Re: Colin Ross

some reason the email bounced. So please add me to the list of supporters. Ian Lawther Anthony Robb wrote: I'm well aware some of you are fairly new to piping and may not be au fait with some of Colin's achievements. Here is a brief list from my perspective: * It was

[NSP] Re: New Andy May CD

It is on the Fellside label (like Yellow Haired Laddie) so should be available through folk outlets etc in the UK. Fellside's US distributor expects to have it this week and and I will have some at bagpipediscs as soon as I get them from the US distributor. Ian Pauline Cato wrote: Hi ev

[NSP] (Commercial) CD specials at bagpipediscs

I do not usually post commercials on this board and this is intended as a one off. Since the beginning of the year I have been having monthly special offers at my online piping CD store and this month these include some Northumbrian and border items so I though there might be some interest amon

[NSP] Re: "Fenwick" tutors

Bill sent me this book when I first got a set of pipes from him in the early 1970s. Ian Dave Shaw wrote: Hi Julia, Tunes in '74 edition of Fenwick are as Edition 1 below. For anyone interested, a PDF of the '31 edition owned by Bill Hedworth can be found here; http://www.jaydax.co.uk/northu

[NSP] Re: nps

Whilst Fenwickdescribes gracenotes he does not say that one should step outside the closed fingering rule he has already set out in order to play them. Many Northumbrian pipers grace within the closed fingeringeven those shakes sound better closed! Ian Dave Shaw wrote:

[NSP] Re: nps

colin wrote: That's the whole point, isn't it? There's a big difference between pipers who can play and then choose to experiment and do "naughty" things and players who just play badly and sloppily (is that a word?). But there is also the knock on effect of those who do not bother to learn p

[NSP] Re: nps

he Festival Hall they would often follow that performance with a private one in thw Dasgupta's flat in Tooting for him and his pupils. And then they would sit around and discuss how Ravi Shankar had corrupted the tradition Ian Mike and Enid Walton wrote: "Ian Lawther" said En

[NSP] Re: nps

It has been interesting following the recent debate and reading Adrian's comments from afar, particularly as I was teaching a workshop in the Pacific North West last weekend and some sessions, particularly on style and ornamentation, were coloured by the online comments of the previous week.

[NSP] Re: asking for a favouRe: pictures of Northumberland

matthieu.bopp wrote: Hello Everyone, I am giving an informal presentation and I would like to display during the NSP musical tune some pictures of Northumberland to help the spectators to get the 'border spirit" :) Browsing the web has not been very helpful yet. Perhaps you should

[NSP] Re: Amazing Musical Machines

The link to the first of 6 clips is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXHPdeh0cOc Part way through I realized that the fellow making it is the chap who used to busk with the musical saw in Canterbury when I did the same with pipes. Ian Debbie Lawther wrote: Hello, all - While we're in a

[NSP] Re: None piping query

I think it should have contained a card sending you thanks from Rupert Boulting for your contribution to the 30 tunes project. I received one this weekend. Ian Richard Shuttleworth wrote: An envelope has just arrived in the mail bearing an Oxford postmark and dated April 15, 2009. It

[NSP] Re: Re:

Matt Seattle wrote: I think you mean Session A9 Ian. Session A7 is me and Bill Telfer, and we rock My mistake Matt - but then you too are a kid from Kent (and more precisely I think you and Tim Edey are both native to the Planet Thanet) Ian To get on or off this list see list information

[NSP] Re:

The musicians I like to listen to who were teenage prodigies will tell you that they worked very hard at their instruments (though they were slightly obsessive and didn't see it as work). In doing so they often put at risk their general education as they practiced rather than swatted for their

[NSP] Re: "Tich's Reel"

I have always assumed that it referred to the Northumbrian musician Tich Richardson who was in "The Boys of the Lough" with his brother Dave Richardson (composer of Calliope House). Tich died at a young age - b think in a car accident. Ian Lawther john_da...@hmco.com wrote:

[NSP] Re: Northumbrian smallpipe teacher in Brussels, Belgium?

There is no one listed as being in Belgium in the 2008 Northumbrian Pipers Society membership list and it looks like Christopher Birch who is on this list may be closest to you in Luxemburg. Ian King, Richard wrote: I've just acquired a Northumbrian smallpipe. I have no NSP experience

[NSP] Canny Shepherd Laddies o' the Hills.....

Anthony's CD and emails here about it have made me nostalgic for my visits to Rothbury Festival and perhaps the romanticised view I, as a southern towny, have of living in rural Northumberland, through songs like "Canny Shepherd Laddies o' the Hills" that Hannah Hutton used to sing. In the mids

[NSP] Re: That CD!

I think the flood was 1988 - it was the year before I first came up to Rothbury. My first marriage ended in May 1988 and it was after this that I began coming up to Northumberland a couple of times a year but I think the first of these trips was to the NPS competitions that October - where

[NSP] Re: Rothbury 1990 CDs

Anthony Robb wrote: If you don't want to text "yes" to 66609 for the mosquito nets just give a couple of quid, or whatever you think fit once you've heard the CD, to a charity of your own choice. Thanks for your interest As aye Anthony Those outside the UK can donate to Red

[NSP] Re: The Lost Music of Newsham

I am in the process of building a website for the Northumbrian Smallpipes Society of North America and at present as a holding page I have a collection of Youtube videos on pipers. Many of you will have seen some or all of these but the current discussion prompted me to point to the webpage a

[NSP] Re: The Lost Music of Newsham

As a little aside I ran into "Cid" in Kay's Irish Music shop in Camden Town while I was at university in London in the late 1970s (they gave students a discount). I knew who he was because he was on the folk club circuit at the time playing with John Doonan. I introduced myself and we had a

[NSP] Re: Keep on Ranting!

Nice one, Chris ...except the only instrument I had to hand was my old Schott school recorder from the mid 1960s that is not aging gracefully and doesn't like pinching up to high A. But then this is a Northumbrian pipe tune not recorder music and its going to sound grand when I get the pip

[NSP] Re: Jimmy Allen

Copyright control(led)? Often abbreviated to "Cop. Con" Ian malcra...@aol.com wrote: On the vinyl itself it is not directly attributed, other than: {All other material Trad C/C) ? Not sure what C/C means To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.

[NSP] Re: Jimmy Allen

Jimmy Allen is on "The Cheviot Hills" by the Cheviot Ranters which was released on Topic (12TS222) in 1972 so later than dates already discussed in the 1960s. For anybody looking for information on Topics records Rod Stradling's Musical Traditions website has a very thorough list at http://ww

[NSP] Re: Reel of Tullochgorum

Among old Cape Breton Scottish pipers there seems to have been no set side on which to play the pipes and photos show both left and right shouldered pipers. Some also played with hands reversed such as the late Alex Currie who had started as a piper who played with the bag under teh right arm b

[NSP] Re: Jimmy Allan traditional (?)

We mustn't overlook the fact that the the last bar and a half of each part matches "And they call I Buttercup Joe" which is claimed to be a southern English song (but may be a pseudo folk song). Ian Barry Say wrote: I quote from my original posting, -- The Reel of T

[NSP] Re: Rants and reels

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

[NSP] Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Rant

Bizarrely my email marked up Lynn's contribution as "possible spam". "Possible Spam" also works, but doesn't taste as good as Tomato Soup or Potato Crisps (and Spam should be marked up as "Possible Meat"). Ian Lynn Patterson wrote: I prefer potato crisps myself. To get on or off this list

[NSP] Re: Music for funeral

I have to admit to having enjoyed playing this tune on one occasion. Bride wanted it at her wedding and I'm hired help so I do as I am told. Then she lets me know she wants me accompanied by the church organ... The organist and I spoke but did not rehearse before the wedding day. I arrived

[NSP] Re: Over the hill?

The test for Northumbrian pipers would be how fast you can tap your index finger and any other finger alternately making sure that finger A is down before finger B comes up. Ian Mike Sharp wrote: ...The test was to see how rapidly they could keep tapping their index fingers

[NSP] Re: American Politics invades NSP traditions

I think Obama's delivery is more staccato than McCain's :-D Cheryl and Colin McNaught wrote: Did anyone else notice that Obama is Pro Choyts and McCain favours slurs? Apologies, Colin McNaught To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/in

[NSP] Re: Etymology of the 'C' word - 2

Perhaps the Glasgow Museum (at The National Piping Centre?) specialises in Scottish pipes and therefore is even more specialist than the wonder museum in Morpeth, or the Jim Coldren's collection that used to be housed in the Bagpipe Music Museum in Ellicott City in Maryland (which had sheet music f

[NSP] Re: Etymology of the 'C' word - 2

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 15:25 +0100, Francis Wood wrote: > > You mentioned George Atkinson as a good exponent of that style. I have > heard only the three tracks on the Wild Hills O'Wannie LP. I like them > a lot. Are there other recordings of him? > > Francis I was just about to be a good bo

[NSP] Re: tchuning

As the Oxford Dictionary defines "lug" as a "Projection on an object by which it may be carried, fixed in place, etc" I would have thought the adaptation to ears (as projections on the head) would be fairly common throughout the English speaking world. Ian colin wrote: Isn't that the fellow

[NSP] Re: the cry of the curlew, the wind in the reeds...

colin wrote: huge cavern of a room Were all music clubs in Liverpool Caverns? To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] Re: Choyting - possible source of word and Plaid

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, For several years my father was at sea with a mixed crew of Hebridean Islanders and other Scots. Apparently the scots refered to the Islander as 'choochters' (chew- k-ters) not sure of spelling; this is an aural history. The name described the babbling nature of

[NSP] Re: The great choyte debate redux

an pipers? .. Steve D -- Original message ---------- From: Ian Lawther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Chris Ormston wrote: PS Sorry to ramble - been in the.. http://chrisormston.com/Documents/Bridge_End.pdf Sorry your evening was spent in such a manner , Chris.

[NSP] Re: The great choyte debate redux

Chris Ormston wrote: PS Sorry to ramble - been in the.. http://chrisormston.com/Documents/Bridge_End.pdf Sorry your evening was spent in such a manner , Chris. I spent my Saturday night at a house concert here in Seattle with Paddy Keenan, with red wine in hand. A month that started with C

[NSP] Re: The great choyte debate redux

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: << For the soloist, . . . playing a full set of satisfying variations is the most fun one can have . . . >> But for the audience, most frequently, this can seem like the most boring performance of an endless set of technical exercises. As an example of

[NSP] Re: The great choyte debate redux

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As to some of the sidelines that this debate has floated, I am reminded of a CD review a few years back in the NPS mag, of a certain group of pipers, in which the reviewer wrote something like: "Group piping is like group sex - probably fun for the participants, but n

[NSP] Re: Plaid 'n stuff

From first hearing the word "choyte" I have assumed it to be onomatopoeic. It is interesting that an open grace note gets a delicate word like "hin" in highland canntaireachd where it something wanted and an ugly word like "choyte" from a Northumbrian piper who says it is wrong. Ian To ge

[NSP] Re: The great choyte debate redux

The division is not as easy to make as to a northern / Newcastle one. Players Chris has mentioned as fitting the Clough style include Hutton, Armstrong and Atkinson who were just as far north geographically as Billy Pigg. Clough (if I remember correctly) in his correspondence was critical of ch

[NSP] Re: OT Humphrey Littleton

Ian Lawther wrote: the quirky humour of I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again of course I meant"I'm Sorry I haven't a Clue"blame grief and senility. Ian To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] OT Humphrey Littleton

yment of British radio humour and an important link with home. Thanks to those of you who played those games, Ian Lawther To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html

[NSP] Re: Plumbing the depths!

John, I'm sure you really remember it was named "John Liestman's Six Inch Number Two" Ian John Liestman wrote: If I recall, Mr. Lawther wrote a fine tune that might fit in here, but I forget the name! Quoting Ian Lawther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Here in the US

[NSP] Re: Plumbing the depths!

A few more.. Jenny Netties Sewer Plumbers of Galashiels Whistle O'er The Lavatory Ian Chris Ormston wrote: Dear All, I recently received a card through the letterbox advertising Northumbria Pipes Plumbing Services. Unfortunately this stimulated a purile torrent of piping/plumbing/lav

[NSP] Re: Plumbing the depths!

Here in the US I have often pondered the connection between pipemakers and plumbers while standing at a urinal. The name "Kohler" is often on the porcelain and "Sloan" on the flush valve...I thought Benedict worked with Dave Quinn...not Ray. Ian Chris Ormston wrote: Dear All, I recently

[NSP] Re: Flowers...OT

I heard a story that Paddy Keenan, uileann piper with the Bothy Band played a wedding once and would not let anyone in on his planned tune for the brides entrance..the reason being he intended to play "The Hag With The Money". Ian Richard York wrote: < Perhaps someone could publish a boo

[NSP] Re: reeds

David, Try Mike Sharp in California http://www.sharpbagpipes.com/ Ian Lawther www.bagpipediscs.com DAVID KORALYNN BOISVERT wrote: Greetings, For some odd reason I've had the most difficult time getting ahold of reeds for my NSP's. Mr. Burleigh, Mr. Ross, the Evans family have al

[NSP] Re: re Winter Tunes

The school assembly I am playing in is a "holiday" celebration which is the way US schools get to cover Hanukkah, Christmas, Kwanzaa, and Eid al-Adha without offending anyone. Last year we were going to do the North Skelton dance but the school ended up closed due to a huge power cut but it wa

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