I think you have a realistic attitude. One reason the ornaments are so complicated with the pipes is due to limitation with that particular instrument. I would suggest a "spiritual" interpretation of the tunes you love. Attempting a gracenote=by=gracenote transfer is not going to ever be satisfactory. Play the tunes, at dance/march speed you can hear all that anyway. A lot of the Scots SONGS work very well on the HG. I play a few marches because the are fun. I rarely attempt anythink more complex than something that something close to an (Irish fiddle) long roll. There are a number of things you can do on a HG that you can't do on the pipes. If you want to sound exactly like the bagpipes, play the bagpipes.
Colin's drift seems to be a desire to bust out of the mold. The real point is to find a tune you already know and try to play that. By all means, ty the Scots tune, hopefully you will discard the stuff that doesn't work when you put together a performance. Good luck, but more important: have fun. Roy --- Michael Muskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You shouldn't try to copy pipers' ornamentation, which is specific to > pipe fingering. They can do things we can't, so you must look for > simpler ornaments which can be just as effective. Pipers need > ornaments > to articulate the melody and give rhythmic drive. We make the rhythm > with the trompette, so we don't need elaborate ornaments. And the > essence of a pibroch is a slow melody, not clever finger tricks - > well, > not for us. > I would be interested to see a list of Scottish tunes you find > effective. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf > Of Minstrel Geoffrey > Sent: 01 January 2008 03:19 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [HG] Hello > > Well I hope to ne at the next "OTW Festival" in 2008 and perhaps by > then, with any luck, enough of is will have learned a FET Scottish > tunes, that we all van harmonize together and really put on a sight, > > perhaps even time down and up to get those tasty quarter stops that > sound amazing with at least 4 players > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Dec 31, 2007, at 2:14 PM, "Maria/Joel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I too am interested in the Scottish tunes, and that is one of the > > reasons I > > bought my HG, misguided as it may be! The snaps will be a > challenge > > but I > > also play the wire-strung harp and had to learn them there, so I > > hope to > > develop a passable ornamentation technique for my HG over time. > > Now, the > > really fancy ornamentation that pipers use, I have no delusions > that > > I'll be > > able to do it all. But for the simpler stuff I figure it's just a > > > matter of > > getting my fingers to work fast enough, because the inertia of the > > > keybox > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.17.13/1205 - Release Date: > 31/12/2007 15:32 > > >
