Hi Reid, Another NSP player in the US would be wonderful!
There's a group that meets somewhat intermittently on the East Coast (we call ourselves Mi-Atlantic but this may be mis-interpreted as being half way to Northumberland). The center of gravity of this is Pennsylvania but we have two players in the Baltimore/Washington area. Check out this link [1]http://upmw.smad.us/squeezethebag/ for an event in January in WV not far from DC which has a full NSP program as well as other bellows pipes. Don't worry about starting when over the hill, I ordered my first set on my 60th birthday. Contact / call off-list if you need any help advice from someone who has recently gone through the learning process without any local help. Colin McNaught Annapolis, MD 410 849 2961 On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Reid Bishop <[2]greidbis...@gmail.com> wrote: Hi Richard Wow I am just really overwhelmed with the encouraging responses this group has given me. Thanks to you and others for helping me work this out. I am in fact very interested in getting a loner set from an appropriate source as soon as is reasonable. John wrote back saying his are currently spoken for so I am interested in renting one of you sets. How do we proceed? I have some time over the Christmas holidays to devote some time to the effort. I would love to get on somebody's loner list. I am also checking out the pipers gathering information as suggested. Cheers Reid On Nov 13, 2010, at 8:48 PM, Richard Shuttleworth <[3]rshuttlewo...@sympatico.ca> wrote: Hello Reid, You can find help through the Pipers' Gathering which holds a convention in early August each year in Vermont. Visit [4]www.pipersgathering.org for all the basic details. We have two sets of Northumbrian small pipes and two sets of Scottish small pipes available for rent (although some are already in use) and if John Leistman doesn't have a set available at this time then we may be able to help you out. Through our mailing list, we may be able to put you in touch with pipers living near you or failing that offer you some advice and encouragement via Skype. Keep in touch! Richard ps The Pipers' Gathering is always looking for sets that we can use as rental sets to help prospective pipers get started on their road to ruin. If anyone knows of sets that are currently languishing in a cupboard then we would love to hear from you! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reid Bishop" <[5]greidbis...@gmail.com> To: "Ian Lawther" <[6]irlawt...@comcast.net> Cc: "NSP group" <[7]...@cs.dartmouth.edu> Sent: Saturday, November 13, 2010 3:42 PM Subject: [NSP] Re: My little tune sponge.... Hideeho, I am new to the nsp list serve. I play fiddle and a few other stringed instruments in various Celtic trad styles. My love of Celtic music began when I was 12 listening to Scottish pipers. I am turning 40 this month and have decided at long last that I want to pipe! I play routinely with my family who are also trad players so I need something to play tunes on that context at least occassionally. I am growing in fascination with the NSP. How should I start? Better should I start given that I am now officially over the hill and have never played any kind of a wind instrument. Are Scottish smallpipes more appropriate. I am handy with fixing and maintaining instruments. Help! Cheers Reid ----------------------------------------- G. Reid Bishop, Ph.D. Director Mississippi River Field Institute National Audubon Society 1208 Washington St. Vicksburg, MS 39183 Office: (601)-661-6189 Mobile: (601)-214-5261 Email: [8]rbis...@audubon.org Web: [9]mri.audubon.org On Nov 13, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Ian Lawther <[10]irlawt...@comcast.net> wrote: My youngest daughter (10) has always been a little bit of a tune sponge though she has refused to join the school choir (much to the teachers disappointment) and only recently took up an instrument (flute). Last night she was whistling something from Holst's The Planets which she picked up somewhere but right now she is sitting playing with Lego and whistling Morpeth Rant....which I happened to be practicing on the melodeon about half and hour ago. She does it better than I was doing. Ian To get on or off this list see list information at [11]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://upmw.smad.us/squeezethebag/ 2. mailto:greidbis...@gmail.com 3. mailto:rshuttlewo...@sympatico.ca 4. http://www.pipersgathering.org/ 5. mailto:greidbis...@gmail.com 6. mailto:irlawt...@comcast.net 7. mailto:nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu 8. mailto:rbis...@audubon.org 9. http://mri.audubon.org/ 10. mailto:irlawt...@comcast.net 11. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
