[NSP] Re: preserving the tradition....a non-traditional approach
I agree with Matt that is a very interesting discussion. However, I don't think that those of you who live at the centre of the NSP world can realize how difficult it is for those of us, who live many thousands of miles away, to know what the true Northumbrian tradition is. To us there are tunes which sound great on the pipes and others that either don't lie easily on the instrument, or which don't, to our ears, seem to show the pipes to what we feel is their best. Although I was born in Northumberland, I did not hear the pipes until my first visit to North Hero in 1987.This is why I begged that some of the people who are imbued with the tradition, and know which are, and which are not, the truly traditional tunes, would make a list of 20 - 30 traditional tunes to enlighten us. I am very sorry that no one has yet taken the trouble to do so and I think there are many, like myself, who would be grateful.We do have almost all of the CDs/ cassettes/ old 331/3 records etc that have been made, but how are we supposed to know, among all of the good (and some indifferent) playing what is 100% traditional !I gather that Jack Armstrong isn't, so what is? This is a sincere request. Pleasewill someone respond. Sheila -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: Preserving the tradition...a non-traditional approach.
On Thu Nov 2 0:37 , 'Doc Jones' [EMAIL PROTECTED] sent: I've been watching the jazz thread a bit. There seems to be a certain reluctance to see the NSP being used in venues that are not strictly traditional. The jazz thread is a total red herring. Nobody can play jazz on the NSP, the people who are talking about it can't play jazz on anything as far as I know - I would be very surprised to be corrected on that. Jazz is not something you dabble in, and neither is trad music, or classical music, they are total disciplines. I would suggest that the best way to preserve the tradition of NSP is to have them played in as many venues and types of music as possible. The tradition of the NSP is that there are maybe half a dozen players at the most at any one time who actually uphold the tradition, the rest support it by aspiring and learning and in other ways. It's not a mass movement, why does anyone want it to be? I'm always suspicious of evangelists, they make me suspect some deep insecurity somewhere. I hope we don't cling so tightly to the tradition that we strangle it into extinction. :) The danger lies in precisely the opposite direction, there is so little understanding of the real essence of the tradition and so much watering down that Northumbrian smallpiping has all but disappeared into the general celtoid miasma. To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
[NSP] Re: Preserving the tradition...a non-traditional approach.
on 11/2/06 3:03 PM, Colin at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This debate reminds me all too much of something that happened back in the 60's in the folk scene when a fellow called Bob Dylan did the second half of his show with an electric guitar and half the audience walked out (I was there). Who's this Dylan guy? Must be Irish. Best wishes. Steve To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
