If I can change the tune in question to illustrate a point.
Oyster Wives' Rant which appears in Peacock's Tunes is also well known
in another tradition as Mullen Dhu. In that tradition it is played
against A drones and becomes yet another Scottish tune with not a lot
to recommend it.
Images can be posted on the NPS pipersforum.
Please can contributors keep their image sizes as small as reasonable.
In case of difficulty, e-mail me
Barry
Quoting Dave S david...@pt.lu:
Hi Anthony,
Would it be a possibility for you to play the 1697/8 Playford Mad Moll
on your primitive set?
I have tried to set up a poll on the NPS forum. Why not try it out?
www.northumbrianpipers.org/pipersforum/
e-mail me if you have any problems.
Barry
Quoting Matt Seattle theborderpi...@googlemail.com:
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Gibbons,
John [1]j.gibb...@imperial.ac.uk
Matt Seattle has kindly pointed out an error in my posting.
It should have been
http://www.northumbrianpipers.org.uk/pipersforum/
Barry
Quoting barr...@nspipes.co.uk:
I have tried to set up a poll on the NPS forum. Why not try it out?
www.northumbrianpipers.org/pipersforum/
e-mail me if
Quoting Dave Shaw d...@daveshaw.co.uk:
It is a little clunky and overcomplicated in places
Dave's opinion here echoes my own untutored an instinctive reaction to the ms.
A related topic,
I have a problem with composition competitions where manuscripts are
presented to a judge.
Written
I would like to thank Dave for the effort he has put into this. I do
not believe the piece is without merit, but it is beyond my personal
musical capacity.
Quoting Dave Shaw d...@daveshaw.co.uk:
Well, the educated musicians of Dunks day tended to be snobbish and
condescending towards
Quoting Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com:
Another 'traditional' tune, J.L Dunk's Whin Shields on the Wall was
unplayable nonsense when given to the NPS in a literate-looking but
impossible manuscript. Someone, probably the editor Gilbert Askew
has bashed it into the excellent
Da Slockit Light.
This is a Shetland tune written by Tom Anderson, who was a towering
figure in Shetland fiddling.
I understand that it was written following the death of his wife when
he felt that the way of life he was familiar with was vanishing.
I know little of Shetland, but when I
Quoting Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com:
That would work very efficiently . . . in fact, probably too efficiently.
Wouldn't it be better to leave it to the individual writer to decide
whether they want their addition to the forum announced on Dartmouth?
And isn't there a facility for
(Suspicious voice)
Hullo,
Anyone there? I've got my tin hat on. Any incoming fire?
(Normal voice)
Attempts at humour on the internet are dangerous and generally misunderstood.
I am the vile editor of the NPS Journal who changed the title of
Anthony's article without his consent and I have
Before Jaja, music was all flagellated Cream
Fassbender offers some grudging compliment to Schoenberg but to show
Jaja's superioriity added Jaja has never written a note of harmony in
his life!
Before Music was witten on manuscript paper with a pen, but Jaja
introduce the schlip-rule
Quoting richard.hea...@tiscali.co.uk richard.hea...@tiscali.co.uk:
Is that the crispy stuff they put in their toblerone's, then?
Toblerone's? trombones? - whatever!
Who can Tell?
Richard
The Lone Ranger, of course.
Tonto
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Quoting Richard York rich...@lizards.force9.co.uk:
All of which goes to show that it's really, really difficult writing
down on paper the precise quality of something which we hear and/or
play in such a way that other people can do it.
Perhaps Aural Transmission really is the best method.
Quoting christopher.bi...@ec.europa.eu:
OK, I shouldn't have called it staccato,
Unfortunately some people do seem to think staccato means short.
Chris,
May I point you to the Dolmetsch dictionary
http://www.dolmetsch.com/defss4.htm
Personally, staccato is a word I use for
Quoting Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com:
Hello Richard,
I think we pretty much agree.
Who, for example, would want to play Rothbury Hills in a staccato manner?
Detached playing is not necessarily staccato. When the notes are long,
the spaces seem even shorter.
(Who, indeed
Quoting smallpi...@machineconcepts.co.uk:
Can anyone remember which famous smallpiper once fitted a regulator
to a set of smallpipes and reinvented the melodian (or at least the
sound of one)?
Yes, I can.
As I remember, to my ears it sounded rather like a harmonium.
Barry
To get on
I think Adrian is expressing some of my personal opinion. I think
that the NPS has a significant duty to provide information to its
membership, particularly new pipers, about the various approaches to
piping and to offer encouragement to those who wish to take a
disciplined approach to
Quoting Anthony Robb anth...@robbpipes.com:
Hello Vernon
If we stick with Barry's fruit analogy idea, Richard Suttleworth was
comparing apples past their sell-by datenbsp;with fresh ones.
Pardon. Where does tradition come into this. Are Reid pipes past their
sell-by dates.
I do not
Personally, I think that any attempt to compare Mike Nelson's Book and
website with the Cocks and Bryan Pipemaking book is a bit like
comparing apples and pears.
Jim Bryan's book was an honest attempt at getting at getting
information about pipemaking as it was understood within NPS
Quoting Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com:
In response to your question about unevenness at those drill points
and the effect on standing waves, I strongly doubt (and this is just
a guess) that it would have any effect on standing waves. Consider
that the volume of the cavity caused
Quoting Francis Wood oatenp...@googlemail.com:
Liquid-anything tends not to stay where you put it. That's a
significant disadvantage.
Francis
Indeed, Liquid paraffin seems to have some superfluid tendencies,
creeping out of the bottle on its own.
Barry
To get on or off this
Hello All,
Season's greetings to all especially those who, like me, have been
laid low by the lurgy.
Julia and I are on the mend, but our plans for the weekend are still
fluid. It seems very unlikely that either of us will be on the
Wannies on Sunday and it is a dead certainty that I
In historic times (before 1990) I am told that there was a fair
proportion of solo playing at NPS meetings, and presumably elsewhere.
Some pipers found the prospect of playing on there own before their
peers a daunting and nerve-wracking prospect. Since that time we
have come to a point where
I have found the link to the recordings but the files themselves are
apparently ont there. Has anyone had more luck than me?
Barry
On 16 Sep 2008 at 10:20, Mike Sharp wrote:
From: Francis Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED]
You mentioned George Atkinson as a good exponent of that style. I
OK. I managed to get the Sweet Hesleyside set, and having listened
to it I managed to view it in Audacity (an audio editing program).
In general. I am reluctant to give an opinion based purely on my own
aural judgement for three reasons.
1) hearing is very subjective and it is easy for the
On 9 Sep 2008 at 21:13, Richard York wrote:
Both mathematically musically I assume the last B should have
been a
semiquaver as well, but would like to know if there are other
accepted
corrected solutions in use.
In the 1999 version in modern type setting, we made the same
assumption.
Hi all,
I tried sending this a day or so ago but it ended up in a bit-bucket
somewhere.
I am tremendously glad that Chris has made this contribution as it
fits in with what I have felt for years.
As I understand it, the single beating reed which we use in the
drones is
inherently less
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