Hello Paul
Thank you for that considered contribution.
I thought I made it clear I was speaking from my position as a piper.
My other qualifications are totally irrelevant in this context!
May I ask about your musical background??
Anthony
--- On Tue, 14/4/09, Paul Gretton <[email protected]> wrote:
From: Paul Gretton <[email protected]>
Subject: [NSP] Re: Billy Pigg
To: "'Anthony Robb'" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, 14 April, 2009, 9:58 PM
>>>The important thing to bear in mind is that ordinary folk like me
just
>>>know what we like.
GROAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This "I'm just an ordinary bloke, a man of the
people
with simple tastes" stuff is so unutterably tedious!!!!!!!!
I thought you were a school headmaster with a degree in a hard science? Or
would you prefer us to believe that you are an illiterate sheep-xxxxxxx from
up a hillside somewhere north of Wooler??
Cheers,
Paul Gretton
-----Original Message-----
From: Anthony Robb [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 14 April 2009 21:44
To: [email protected]; what.me
Subject: [NSP] Re: Billy Pigg
Hello Adrian
Thanks for that. I'm new to this debate and find it all fascinating.
I'm obviously one of the damned because I find choyting expressive and
beautiful in the right place. The thought of "moving on" from
Billy
Pigg to Tom Clough is as strange to me as "moving on" from York to
Durham. They are both wonderful beautiful places and neither can really
claim superiority. I can understand moving from one to the other but
not "moving on" from one to the other.
The important thing to bear in mind is that ordinary folk like me just
know what we like.
That can be nice bouncy dance tunes tunes played "out of
context??!!"
for sheer enjoyment in each other's homes or other ways of getting some
some personal expression that goes beyond the rules laid down by one of
the most unique and talented dynasties to stand outside the everyday
tradition of this music.
I feel priveleged to have had the music experiences I've had. I was
taught by ear by someone who thought Tom Clough was king and who was
himself taught by ear by someone who was taught by Tom Clough. The
interesting thing is, they both had an openess of mind that allowed for
deviation from the received teaching. The question is, do we move on
from here or go back to a strict obeyance of rules that only
the extremely gifted can live by?
As aye
Anthony
--- On Tue, 14/4/09, what.me <[email protected]> wrote:
From: what.me <[email protected]>
Subject: [NSP] Billy Pigg
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, 14 April, 2009, 7:03 PM
Hello all,
Billy Pigg did choyt.
When I was learning the nsp is the late 1970's / early1980's there
were
not too many players which I liked the playing of. I plumped for Billy
Pigg because he was marketed as being a legend; although Tom Clough was
The Prince of Pipers, there was not enough of him to listen to. The
other players seemed to have no gusto in their playing. My method of
playing has changed. I use to choyte, grace a lot and use vibrato. The
first has vanished altogether, I use gracing sparingly as with vibrato.
Although Billy was my mainstay to piping, I've moved on to Clough,
although his timing was not that accurate, his detatched fingering was
the tightest I'd heard early in the beginning.
Adrian
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