True, but perfection and beauty are not always found together methinks.
In 1971 I played pipes on the Topic album "Transpennine". The track was
"Nelly O' Bob's ot Crowtrees". David Hillery changed the key from G to
A on the morning of recording and my pipes wouldn't do A drones so I
borrowed Gerry Murphy's set (Gerry himself played a set- pitch Billy
Conroy whistle made from plastic waste pipe). You can imagine the
problems!! I mentioned the iffy playing and tuning to Tony Engle when
he came to record Cut & Dry Dolly in 1975. He reckoned it was one of
the most moving and beautiful things he had heard. His opinion knocked
me backwards and made me re-evaluate my ideas on piping and
traditional music in general.
As aye
Anthony
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<[email protected]> wrote:
From: [email protected]
<[email protected]>
Subject: [NSP] Re: Smallpipes Simulator
To: [email protected]
Date: Tuesday, 20 April, 2010, 10:36
<one can clearly hear the beat note between
>mis-tuned drones with the Saymulator.
You can hear it on some recordings of real pipers too! Not to mention
the chanter out of tune with the drones.
If the cap fits ...
c
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