The awesome image of the engraving, and much of the text, were added by "[1]John Gibbons 3" as noted in the History tab at the top of the page. That is one of the cool things about Wiki as well; every draft can be seen and compared. So if anyone wants to shoot him a line on Wiki and say "hey, add the publisher, check the edition#, and did you really mean 'chromatic'?" By all means rock on.
As mentioned in the start: is there any portrait/image of Dunn himself somewhere that we can add? I do plan (on my over-packed to-do list) to do several more NSP articles, including one on the institution of the "Duke of Northumberland's Piper". Just have to dig up some footnotes, and then contact the current piper to a) see if he has any good reference works I can footnote, b) if he's willing to release to public domain (or share out-of-copyright images) of ducal pipers of the past, and ideally one of himself in full regalia. Extra points if I can get a good pic of him marching in the ceremonial procession for the soccer game he plays for annually by command. If anyone here is interested in writing a Wiki article for any figure of NSP history, but is not familiar with Wiki, give me a shout and I can walk you through it. It's actually quite easy, and there's even an automated "Article Wizard" program that makes it about as easy as typing an email. All you really need is a few reliable references to footnote, and for some of the pipers there are enough books on GoogleBooks that can be cited that you don't even need to track down a physical book. -Matthew Arlington, Virginia > Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 11:09:52 +0100 > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Subject: [NSP] Re: Historical image of John Dunn, John Peacock? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Matt Seattle" > > > Also, I wonder whether the keywork added by Dunn was 'chromatic' at > > this stage, but others will know more about this than I do. > > No it was not chromatic, being just the four keys for low D, E, Fsharp and > high A, which just extended the range of the diatonic scale of G. > Notes are only "chromatic" when they do not form part of the major or minor > scale in which the music is played. Strictly speaking, I suppose one could > say that when playing a C natural in a tune which is otherwise in the key of > D major, a C natural would be a "chromatic alteration" - but that's rather > stretching the point. > If, as on the Dunn chanter, there is no C#, so that ALL the C's have to be > natural even in a tune whose tonic is D, then it's just a modal tune with a > flattened 7th, I think. However, an occasional C natural in a D major tune > with mostly C sharps, would be chromatic, while the C sharp key (when it was > added later) would not be chromatic as long as the tune is in D - but in a G > major tune it would be! > "Chromatic" also means a scale moving by semitones, and you couldn't play > any part of a chromatic scale on a 4-key Dunn chanter, like the B, C, C#, D, > D#, E scale which is possible on a 7-key chanter. > > Still - in common parlance, "chromatic" generally just means the black notes > on the piano, so perhaps Wiki may be just using conventional terminology to > mean Dunn started the process of adding extra keys, which is fair enough and > clearly conveys what most readers will quickly understand. > > Still, all praise to Matthew for putting up the article and bringing another > small bit of the highly specialist Northumbrian pipe world into the wider > public domain - and isn't that engraving wonderful? Must be Bewick's > workshop, surely. > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:John_Gibbons_3&action=edit&redlink=1
