Oooh, oooh, let me try! There are a lot of people in the South Central US that are descended from Scots, but the only real cultural lnk is the affinity for fried food. Most of us only hear bagpipe watching "Brigadoon" on TV. That would be the "uneducated" folks. You get a lot of those . Then there are varying degrees of "educated". The more familiar they are with the pipes, the less like it is going to sound "just like" the pipes.
Still, I only play some of the mixolydian songs. I don't even try to imitate the cuts, grips, taorluaths, leumluath, cranns etc, that are used to articulate the melody in the tune. (We all follow that tounging the melody into the bag (airtank) is a useless exercize?) That being said an awareness that the melody can be articulated on the HG with the Left Hand can be useful. ...but trying to play pipe marches note for note doesn't seem feasible...I don't have enouogh fingers and all 4 that I have grow out too close together. What's that Alden sez?... "Your mileage may vary?" Anyway a lot of us would like to play pipe tunes, but I can't manage anything but "Atholl Highlanders" yet. So Good luck and keep us posted. Later, Roy On 2/18/07, Jon Redpath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thank goodness, in this case, there are far more uneducated listeners, and > this is mostly my audience. You can be successful, if you can accurately > judge what the gurdy can bring to the music, and don't try to exceed that > limit - being 'over the top' which a gurdy usually is doesn't work as well > in Scotts / Irish as it does in say, Romany, Slavic, French, or English > music. > > Chris Nogy Would you like to explain this in English please? . It does sound a bit insulting. JON ------------------------------ New Yahoo! Mail is the ultimate force in competitive emailing. Find out more at the Yahoo! Mail Championships<http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/mail/uk/taglines/default/championships/games/*http://uk.rd.yahoo.com/evt=44106/*http://mail.yahoo.net/uk/>. Plus: play games and win prizes.
