Nicely put. I hear the murmurings of "keyed or unkeyed" in the offing........ Colin Hill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Seattle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 8:15 PM Subject: [NSP] Re: preserving the tradition....a non-traditional approach
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2006 3:20 PM > >Subject: [NSP] Re: preserving the tradition....a non-traditional approach > > >This is why I begged that > >some > >> of the people who are imbued with the tradition, and know which are, and > >> which are not, the truly traditional tunes, would make a list of 20 - 30 > >> traditional tunes to enlighten us. > > It is obviously a matter of taste that we are really talking about rather than > tradition as such, because if something gets played for long enough it is > traditional, whether a piping snob such as myself likes it or not. But, getting > at what is behind the question, my recommendation would be the 25 or so plain > chanter variation sets in Peacock for a start. I know some people can't stand > that stuff, and it certainly wasn't clear to me for the first few years what it > was all about; but then, you get out what you put in. There is enough instant > musical gratification elsewhere. > > Throughout this discussion, for what it's worth, I write not as someone who plays > NSP (I don't) but as someone who regards the instrument, its repertoire and a few > of its players, as the chief means of transmission into modern times of the > spirit of Border piping, which is my real interest. > > I realise that the activity of NSP-ing means different things to different > people, but I believe that there is something precious at the heart of the > tradition, the more so because it is so misunderstood, non-mainstream and lacking > in any kind of academic recognition. > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
