Hi Alec, If you can play it by ear on the NSP no harm done. "Real" NSPipers play all sorts of things, even Mozart, so you should feel free to play whatever pleases you. The NSP in F, or thereabouts, and D are transposing instruments anyway. all the best, John
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 7:45 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Here's a question I don't recall seeing discussed here: I played > concertina for English Country Dancing for years, and have a lot of > wonderful tunes in my head. I'd love to be able to play them on my > NSP, but they are often in keys that I can't play in--and perhaps my > pipes even can't. So my question is this: Does everyone transpose > tunes so they can play them? Or is that considered bad karma, and I'll > be given the stank eye by "real" players if I'm caught doing that? > > Thx > > Alec > > -- > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html >
