Yes, that's what I was saying.
As I already play quite a number of instruments (including Northumbrian
small pipes), I wanted to start "afresh", as it were, on the HG rather than
just transfer tunes I played on other things.
Purely a personal choice.
I'll play anything I feel like now (within my own limits) but felt that I
needed to approach the instrument as a brand new experience to fully
appreciate the unique sound.
It worked for me although it was probably a lot harder to be learning both a
new instrument (never before seen "in the flesh") and a new style of music
at the same time.
I suppose it would be easier to play tunes that you are familiar with and
decide if they are suitable.
I took the original question more as a "what tunes will sound like HG tunes
that would be fairly easy to learn" with the implication that existing
repertoire be ignored.
Sorry if I gave the wrong impression - especially as I have just been
playing Amazing Grace, The Gay Gordons, Auld Lang Syne and Flower of
Scotland over the last few days!.
Colin Hill
----- Original Message -----
From: "Roy Trotter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:42 AM
Subject: RE: [HG] WAS Hello NOW it's not...
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
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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
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