Anyone here that plays (or has played) both the NSP and the baroque musette that can enlighten me on how the fingering and playing technique is similar/different between the two?
I play a (bellows-blown) 'doedelzak'/'cornemuse' -- the traditional pipes in central France, Belgium, and the Netherlands -- which are played with half-closed fingering. I have ordered a musette but am looking at approx. another 4 years before it'll be ready... so was wondering if picking up the NSP would be useful in preparation when it comes to fingering/technique. (Yes, I know, it'd be useful in that I get to learn another nifty instrument and its repertoire in any case :-) ) Thanks, Bart To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
