On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:03 PM, John Dally <[1]dir...@gmail.com> wrote:
When playing with NSP in F do you tune your fiddle down or play in F and C? It doesn't happen often, and I don't retune the fiddle, just struggle in F. When Chris used to occasionally play GHB in Border Directors before we both had Border pipes I struggled in Bb. If I were doing a lot of either of these I would retune, down and up respectively, but I'm not looking to do so; having started piping at a relatively late age I find pipes so demanding that my fiddle playing is now mainly about playing with a good dance rhythm rather than exploration. I've 'always' - since taking up guitar at age 13 - played with other instrumentalists. The fiddle took me into ceilidh bands and since taking up pipes my horizons have broadened further rather than narrowed - string quartets, a saxophone quintet, middle eastern percussion. So the idea that it would be unusual to play duets is, well, unusual! -- References 1. mailto:dir...@gmail.com To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html