[NSP] Re: Colin Ross and all that

2009-10-23 Thread Gibbons, John
thony Robb Sent: 23 October 2009 09:53 To: Francis Wood Cc: Dartmouth NPS Subject: [NSP] Re: Colin Ross and all that Sorry for tardy reply - slaving over protools for two days until late last night. I came into piping via a route involving David Hillery, Colin Caisley and Tom Clough no

[NSP] Re: Colin Ross and all that

2009-10-23 Thread Francis Wood
Hello Anthony, Things are also fairly busy at this end, though I will soon respond. But shouldn't we be transferring this apparently NPS-specific discussion to the list established for that purpose? However, I would be reluctant to do so under the title of the present thread. I think the

[NSP] Re: Colin Ross and all that

2009-10-23 Thread Anthony Robb
Sorry for tardy reply - slaving over protools for two days until late last night. 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 pe

[NSP] Re: Colin Ross and all that

2009-10-21 Thread Steve Bliven
On 10/21/09 11:17 AM, "Ian Lawther" wrote: > Perhaps as the Northumbrian piping community we should take Anthony's > thoughts as a starting 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

[NSP] Re: Colin Ross and all that

2009-10-21 Thread Ian Lawther
Very well said Anthony. I also note Steve's response and would say that while Anthony's post cover a lot of ground which is specific to the NPS the comments on Colin in general should be of importance to all Northumbrian Pipers. It is important that Colin has been present in the US at the PIpe

[NSP] Re: Colin Ross and all that

2009-10-21 Thread Steve Bliven
It is my understanding that the NPS has its own list for discussions of this type. The rest of the world (or at least my small part of it) doesn't really want to be exposed to this sort of material. Please take this discussion where it belongs. Best wishes. Steve On 10/21/09 5:00 AM, "Antho

[NSP] Re: Colin Ross and all that

2009-10-21 Thread Francis Wood
On 21 Oct 2009, at 10:00, Anthony Robb wrote: Is it unreasonable to suggest that there'd be no nsp if it wasn't for the NPS Yes. Francis To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html