I have been enjoying the thread discussions since I joined the list serve back in the fall. I have now been playing my F set since late November and have learned about five tunes on the 17 key chanter. I get tired easy and have some squeaks from the lower registers but otherwise I am making nice progress thanks to John Liestman 's book. I am now ready to have a lively discussion with whoever will entertain me. I have LOTS of questions so please only respond if you are willing to deal with stupid questions.
The most immediately perplexing issue is that I was sure the set was F+ when I purchased it from my friend in Italy but the chanter tends to slightly flat of E with what I believe to be medium bag pressure but I can easily get it to Concert F to play with my wife's accordion. This exercise has also revealed that I know way too many Irish and old time American tunes on fiddle and banjo. I want to concentrate my musical life at the moment on border music. Which tunes should we learn over the next months pipes aside? Is there a good source of music with recordings to help? I have Liestman's book and am working on those tunes on the pipes. I hunger for more. My local musician friends are also intrigued though I have been laughed at more than once when I pull out my set. My goal is to form the only legit Northumbrian/border band in Mississippi! It is nonsensical to me that Irish music has such a choke hold on our region given that the lineage of the majority of US South! erners is lowland Scotland/northern English/ northern Irish. I recognize lots of the border tunes I have heard from my old time fiddle involvement. Thanks Reid On Feb 10, 2011, at 10:46 AM, "Julia Say" <julia....@nspipes.co.uk> wrote: > On 10 Feb 2011, Francis Wood wrote: > >> I don't think I've seen Arthur Benade's Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics >> mentioned >> in this forum. > > I think I've seen it on Barry's shelves. Which is where it's staying unless > my son > borrows it. > > No point me even trying - it would be a huge waste of the remaining brain > cells. > > Julia. > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
