Earliest example of anyone going over the top re plaid I can think of was Sir Walter Scott who wore trousers of the stuff woven in the Border mills probably at Linlithgow. A bit like the gadgee who comes to the Morpeth Gathering.
I think that anyone commenting on 'Choyting' should be a player of the open ended chanter of any tradition where they will be familiar with the necessity of 'cutting' to separate notes of the same pitch. It is not an option fro the NSP player who should use 'tipping' to acheive the same result unless you use the D# key to acheive a rapid succession of notes as in a triplet. The only example of deliberate choyting I know is to be found in the Peacock Collection in the tune Lochail's March where the small pipes are meant to imitate the Highland pipe. The use of gracing is a separate issue where economy and good musical taste comes ito it and to be aware that gracing for the NSP is not the same as for the fiddle,flute or accordeon. We know who we mean. Colin -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu Sent: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:54 Subject: [NSP] Re: Plaid 'n stuff On 22 Aug 2008, Paul Gretton wrote: > >>>I've been told the weave was different in each valley > But being a canny lass, you thought "pull the other one!" I don't know. It *sounds* plausible enough. But it's nowt to do with piping. > > Me meself persunelly, I like the traditional look of the > "Birkenstock Band" on the cover of the October 2003 NPS Newsletter. Touche! (sorry can't do the acute accent in Pegasus) (For the record, it's a picture of the Ovingham goose fair procession led by 3 of us in, er, plaid waistcoats) See: http://www.pipersgathering.org/Galleries/main.php?g2_itemId%41 for a T-shirt take on corporate identities. Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html ________________________________________________________________________ AOL Email goes Mobile! You can now read your AOL Emails whilst on the move. Sign up for a free AOL Email account with unlimited storage today. --
