I play fiddle on a regular basis with Chris Ormston playing G NSPs, mainly for dances with Border Directors. We also play A Border pipes together. Before us, High Level Ranters, Joe Hutton and the Wills played NSP and fiddle, it's not at all unusual - Margaret and Andy Watchorn, K & P Tickell, the list must be a long one. Only time I played with a D set was with Dick Hensold - everything was in the 'wrong' key on the fiddle - more so when playing fiddle with an F set, which I also do occasionally.
On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 7:45 PM, John Dally <[1][email protected]> wrote: I've been listening to a lot of UP flat set and fiddle duets, and playing my SSP in A a bit with a fiddler. I'm smitten with the sound mix of low pipe and fiddle. I think fiddle and NSP would go well together, but perhaps the NSP in D would produce a better match up with a fiddle than F or F# and the G chanter which can be, to my ear anyway, shrill. Has anyone experimented with this sort of thing at all? thanks, John PS Is there a monument at the Morpeth Chantry to those who have fallen in the bagpipe wars? To get on or off this list see list information at [2]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. mailto:[email protected] 2. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
