-- On Sat, 21/5/11, inky-adrian <inky-adr...@ntlworld.com wrote:
This is not Northumberland Smallpipe-playing. The player choytes. The
player slides into notes too. Staccato rules!
Hello Adrian
As I made clear to you offlist Alice's playing would not be to your
taste but I did suggest it would give an idea of her fluency and
musicality.
I think it is rather sweeping to suggest there is only one way to play
the pipes. Even Kennedy North, an avid supporter of Tom Clough (and the
person who got him down to London to do those amazing recordings), said
he preferred the very different style of the north Northumberland
pipers.
Clearly there have always been pipers that differed in approach from
the Cloughs and it is inaccurate to suggest that theirs is the only/one
true way.
The beauty of Alice's playing for me is that she puts very tight
staccato as well as choytes in the same piece. For some of us
this gives depth and variety and adds more strings to her
very expressive bow.
Onward & upward
Anthony
--
To get on or off this list see list information at
http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
