----- Original Message ----- From: "Edmund Spriggs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <> Sent: Tuesday, October 03, 2006 5:56 PM Subject: [NSP] Re: peacock pipes
> I've asked one or two pipemakers whether a stopped "Dixon Peacock" > chanter could be made, with a slide or a bead so that you could set the > chanter to either a sharp seventh or a natural seventh. Having once made a sliding thumb-hole for a rather unconventional (and long) C chanter (fascinating project but incredibly fiddly and time-consuming, even with the extra space available) I would suggest that as keyless chanters are pretty easy and quick to make, it would be more cost-effective to have two chanters. To add to this festival of Peacockery, my favourite set to play is the little four-key "Peacock's improved" I made for myself after the Dunn set in the museum. Early Music meets Northumbrian Piping. When I first got into NSP's back in the post-hippy, back-to-nature, and knit-your-own-muesli culture of the mid to late 70's, I seem to remember there was a bit of a reaction against what was seen as the over-virtuosic culture of competition playing on 17-key sets etc. etc. and this led to the appearance of what is still one of my all-time favourite piping LP's "Cut and Dry Dolly". featuring Anthony & Carole Robb, Colin et al. all looking young and long-haired. Everything comes round again in the end! Philip To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
