Again, thanks all for the advice.
I tried all 3 tunes with both Gg and Aa drones, both set ups worked okay. I
think i prefered the Gg sound though. Basically it is the border pipe set
up, a tone lower.
I suspect i better be able to play all 3 tunes by october though.
Derek
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From: "Julia Say" <julia....@nspipes.co.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2012 2:32 PM
To: "Dartmouth NPS" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>
Subject: [NSP] Re: small coals, and the peacock following the hen
On 15 Aug 2012, Matt Seattle wrote:
And neither does playing Cuckold or Peacock on NSP against A drones
sound nasty, but it does miss a lot of the musical effect of these
tunes, the contrasting minor/major strains
Coincidentally (yes, really) I spent part of this afternoon playing
Peacock
followed the Hen with Colin R.
We tried both G and A drones, both with and without the dominant d or e
harmony
running.
We also tried playing the only f# (in the B part) as a natural, to test if
it was
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