I don't know whether any readers know (or care) but I feel I should
place on record the fact that the late Forster Charlton (before he was
late, of course, this would have been in the 1980s) devised a computer
program for simulating the sound of the nsp and sold it to the BBC.
I practised with Forster a fair bit at that time at his house in Lobley
Hill, prior to the 1986 and 1989 International Bagpipe Festivals in
Strakonice (then Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic since the Slovaks
decided to go it alone), and Forster would occasionally emerge from the
kitchen where he'd be concocting some kind of dubious stew and
gleefully bash a button on his keyboard, thus setting off a perfect
rendition of some infernally difficult tune of his such as Harry's
Rant.
Happy days indeed.
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