Anthony, Are we talking about the existence of Northumbrian piping, or how the majority of Northumbrian pipers came to piping? Rather different questions.
The existence of the NPS has made it easier for people to access piping, and their publications are a hugely important resource. But so are Matt Seattle's, and those of others. It is hard to prove the necessity of the NPS - if it had not existed, piping might well have continued anyway, and might well have had a revival of interest, like much other folk music, in the 1960s. There was indeed such a revival, and the NPS - as it was there - was the obvious vehicle for it. But to argue that the instrument and its traditions *would* have died out if the NPS had not existed is stretching the point I think. John -----Original Message----- From: lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu [mailto:lute-...@cs.dartmouth.edu] On Behalf Of Anthony Robb Sent: 23 October 2009 09:53 To: Francis Wood Cc: Dartmouth NPS Subject: [NSP] Re: Colin Ross and all that Sorry for tardy reply - slaving over protools for two days until late last night. I came into piping via a route involving David Hillery, Colin Caisley and Tom Clough nothing to do with NPS but I thought such individual routes were fairly rare. Are you saying most of the nsp list people would also trace a route where no one from the NPS was is the chain? Please elucidate! Anthony --- On Wed, 21/10/09, Francis Wood <oatenp...@googlemail.com> wrote: From: Francis Wood <oatenp...@googlemail.com> Subject: Re: [NSP] Colin Ross and all that To: "Anthony Robb" <anth...@robbpipes.com> Cc: "Dartmouth NPS" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu> Date: Wednesday, 21 October, 2009, 10:04 AM On 21 Oct 2009, at 10:00, Anthony Robb wrote: > Is it unreasonable to suggest that there'd be no nsp if it wasn't for > the NPS Yes. Francis -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
