Maybe your violin teacher was teaching you classical style along with
the good basic violin technique, and the classical style was impeding
your traditional style. Two styles can be inconsistent. Doing one well
might well mean doing the other badly. A classical violinist might try
to play quavers equal, others such as a baroque violinist - or Willy
Taylor - definitely wouldn't.
But with the nsp, all good players, including Kathryn Tickell and Billy
Pigg, have (have had) a largely detached technique, and crux of the
argument is a stylistic point as to whether a 'good style' can include
open-fingered ornament. If Chris and Adrian are at the 'wee free' end
of the spectrum, all good players are some sort of protestant at
least.....
The justification for the 'wee free' position is that if you allow
open fingering in some contexts but not others, then bad players (they
exist) will take these contentious elements as the basis of their
'style' and ignore the closed-fingered basic technique.
If religious analogies are felt inappropriate in this forum, try
the Judaean People's Liberation Front instead!
John
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