On 14 Apr 2009, Anthony Robb wrote: > The pipes were designed to provide a staccato (or at least a > separated note) foundation to the music. If a person ignores this > completely from the outset then the product may not be wrong but it > is certainly misguided. Let pipers take the music in any direction > they wish but to have any connection with Northumbrian piping as > such they must spend time studying the starting point thoroughly > before setting off on their journey. If people dont see the point > in doing this then chosing to play an out and out traditional > instrument seems a bit daft in the first place.
Hooray. At last, something I can agree with publicly. I'm trying to call it detached fingering (or tenuto for the technically minded), rather than staccato, but that's a minor detail. Julia To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
