[NSP] Re: D set keys (was Looking for players..)

2009-08-26 Thread Richard Hensold
See below... Dick HensoldSt. Paul, MN 651/646-6581 Traditional Folk Music, Early Music, and Cambodian Music Northumbrian smallpipes, recorder, Medieval greatpipes,Swedish sackpipa, & beyaw. [1]www.dickhensold.c

[NSP] Re: Looking for other NSP players in Suffolk or East Anglia

2009-08-20 Thread Richard Hensold
Regarding D sets: While they are not the most easy and practical concert-pitch instruments, they do have their uses. D sets will blend with voice much better than F or G sets, and a D set in a band will blend in rather than stand out in front, as a G set will do. I've used a D se

[NSP] The timing description of str 6 of AtNILwJ

2009-06-12 Thread Richard Hensold
Hi I sent this yesterday but apparently only some people got it (the email that is), so I'm sending it again, with some additional comments. * For any of you who care to help me with my little experiment in directed listening, here is the description of how I was trying

[NSP] Re: Was: this list is safer now//speed

2009-06-10 Thread Richard Hensold
Hi Matt, et al, Dick HensoldSt. Paul, MN 651/646-6581 Traditional Folk Music, Early Music, and Cambodian Music Northumbrian smallpipes, recorder, Medieval greatpipes,Swedish sackpipa, & beyaw. [1]www.dickhensol

[NSP] Re: re notes v. ear

2009-06-10 Thread Richard Hensold
Hi Philip, et al, I guess I need to respond to this... It is of course impossible to know just what Mr. Little was talking about in his attribution of "flatness" to note-reading-- we don't know the players involved, their abilities, their musical or cultural background, and I fr

[NSP] ear-learners vs note-learners

2009-06-09 Thread Richard Hensold
This is a very interesting topic, but the thread that followed AR's post seemed to miss the point a bit. It's becoming an accepted notion that ear-learners (people who started out playing music entirely by ear, and only started reading music years later, if at all) think about/exper

[NSP] stiff fingers and aging

2009-03-26 Thread Richard Hensold
I was apparently doing something else for the last couple hundred messages, so am only now getting into the discussion... What interested me were the comments about fingers stiffening with age. I'm only 50, but my fingering has improved steadily (that is, way too slowly) as long as

[NSP] Re: Fool, fearing to tread, aka Peacock marks

2008-09-22 Thread Richard Hensold
The whole recent choyting "debate" has mostly reinforced my opinion that it's better to try to teach people how to think musically than to answer specific questions about what is correct or incorrect... No, indeed we don't know what Peacock's trill signs meant, and the vagueness tha

[NSP] my new website

2008-07-14 Thread Richard Hensold
My new website is up, if anyone is interested... lotsa stuff available for download... www.dickhensold.com > Dick HensoldSt. Paul, MN > 651/646-6581 >Traditional Folk Music, Early Music, and Cambodian Music >Northumbrian smallpipe