John Dally
Sat, 06 Feb 2010 11:27:41 -0800
When is the ebook edition coming out? On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 11:23 AM, tim rolls BT <tim.ro...@btconnect.com> wrote: > Julia wrote > > "The one you have was an ephemeral printing only." > > > Does that mean the print will fade away and he'll have to buy one of your > new ones :-0 > > Tim > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Say" <julia....@nspipes.co.uk> > To: "nsp" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu>; "Dru Brooke-Taylor" > <drubrooketay...@btinternet.com>; "Richard Shuttleworth" > <rshuttlewo...@sympatico.ca> > Sent: Saturday, February 06, 2010 6:21 PM > Subject: [NSP] Re: Sliabh na m'bhan (was Gaelic Pronunciation) > > >> On 6 Feb 2010, Richard Shuttleworth wrote: >> >>> How many more books on Billy Pigg can you find to write? (Big grin here) >> >> The existing one (the 1997 book with the biography and interviews in) is >> effectively out of print - there are a few copies left which will be >> available to >> NPS members only. >> The one you have was an ephemeral printing only. >> >> The tunebook-sized volumes currently in production are a re-write of the >> 1997 book, >> with some biography, updated information on Billy's playing style using >> two or >> three of Geoff's transcriptions of common tunes as illustrations, and >> revision >> (where necessary) of the tunes themselves. I've listened to all the tunes >> with a >> far more educated ear than 13 years ago: the 1st edition I was effectively >> ghost- >> writing. >> One will have all Billy's compositions in: the other is a wider selection >> of tunes >> he played. Once that's out, I will have said all I'm intending to on the >> subject. >> Billy was a one-off (there are those who would say thank goodness!), an >> important >> influence on C20 piping and wrote some darn good tunes. >> >>> Gay McKeon .... This version varies quite a bit from Billy's in the >>> second part but it is certainly the same air. I shall study this. >> >> Gay came and did a concert at the Chantry a few years back and I was most >> impressed. I suspect that like most airs, this one has as many versions as >> there >> are players - and so it should be, in a sense. >> >>> Adrian plays >>> Sliabh na m'Bhan followed by The Iron Man. My liner notes are so old I >>> didn't see the forward slash in the printing >> >> Ah, that explains it. >> >>> Thank you, Julia, for separating my enquiry from the bitter >>> correspondence >>> it seems to have generated. >> >> Not at all...we are both, I believe, founder members of this list, and >> have >> followed it through an assortment of ups and downs. On balance I think >> it's been of >> great use to a large number of people over the years. I believe we first >> "met" on >> the bagpipe list which preceded it, which IIRC drowned in a welter of GHB >> wars >> that make some exchanges on here, recent and not-so-recent, pale into >> insignificance. >> >> Anyway, I like lively debate. >> >> Julia >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >> > > > >