Hi All, I have been waiting for an opportune moment to write this posting for several years. I think this is an appropriate time, before answering some of Anthony Robb's points, particularly the points concerning Kathryn
Kathryn was a tutor at the Forkworks Adult Winter Workout held at Darlington in I believe, 1995. I attended this weekend course and subsequently she organized a series of classes privately, which were carried out in groups of three or four. These I attended and paid for. I cannot fault her skill as a teacher, and if I did not derive maximum benefit from the the experience then the failing was mine. However, I learned that her playing is based on a very sound basis of clean fingering, all the gracings are studied and balanced. I adopted some of the gracings in my own playing. More importantly, I took away from the series of lessons the a greater ability to listen critically to my own playing, and the ability to liten 'faster', hearing greater detail in music. This I think was actually more important than anything I learned about piping technique and I remain grateful. Barry To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
