Good points. "When love breaks down" by Prefab Sprout has already been recorded by Her Who Shall Not Be Named, has it not? Not to mention "Stranger on the shore" by, er, someone else.
>Sax had only ever been used to play orchestral music, it's >original purpose >as a crossover between brass and woodwind. "band" music I hope. The sax is an example, imho, of an instrument that works best in styles that had not even been conceived of when it was invented - or to put it another way, it is indispensible in certain kinds of music and unusable in most. Another case in point is the harmonica. And who is correct: the "mouthie" player or the "blues harp" player? I know which I prefer, even if they can't even manage to play in the "correct" key. <grin> And what about guitars? The correct way is to pluck them with one hand (with or without a plectrum) and finger them with the other, isn't it? Like Segovia and Jimi Hendrix (though the latter held his the wrong way round and downside up, the dolt ;-)). So much for Adam Fulara, Stanley Jordan, Jeff Healy, Robert Johnson etc. They've all got it wrong... And as for this hammer on / pull off business, it's the guitar equivalent of choyting, isn't it? Easier than articulating each note separately. so watch out Mr Knopfler. (runs for cover) chirs > >Tim RollsOriginal Message ----- >From: "Robert Greef" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu> >Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 9:22 AM >Subject: [NSP] Piping under threat! > > >>I saw the post from Chris Ormston: >> >>>I'm seriously concerned that the traditional >> > way of playing our instrument will be swept away in a wave of >>> Pan-Celtic "syncopated jiggery" >> >> This made me wonder what 'Pan-Celtic "syncopated jiggery"' >is, and what >> the >> nature of the threat. >> >> Cheers, >> Robert Greef >> >> >> >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > > >--------------------------------------------------------------- >----------------- > > > >No virus found in this incoming message. >Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com >Version: 8.0.173 / Virus Database: 270.7.5/1702 - Release >Date: 10/1/2008 >9:05 AM > > >
