Hi Bill, How you can get a birl out within the tight finger hole spacing of the G chanter is remarkable, as I find the F chanter which is longer than the G, too cramped to execute the birl or any of the other complex ornaments that I love to execute on my Scottish pipes. It is enough for me to make sure I have only one finger or key raised at a time in keeping with the closed chanter playing style, and to appreciate the wonderful percussive popping effects that distinguishes NSP chanter from the Scottish ones.
Cheers, Sam -----Original Message----- From: Bill Carr [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 02, 2006 10:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [NSP] NSP Birl? >From Bill Carr Mysen - Norway My first post here in a long time... I asked this on the Dunsire forums but thought maybe I would get a broader response here. I am fairly new to the NSP but have been a very active ghb player for 13 years. I am currently playing a G set and working through John Liestmans book. The tune I am working on now is Lambs Skinnet. When I came to the long G notes at the end of the second part I automatically did a birl (from highland technique). It felt natural to put one in there and I think it sounded pretty neat. I was just wondering. 1 - Do any of you NSP'ers who also play Scottish pipes use the Birl on the NSP? 2 - If you did something unorthodox like that in highland piping circles you would probably get some crass comments from the conservative corner (including myself). Is it more accepted to do stuff like that in Northumbrian piping? Cheers Bill Carr -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
