Hello Adrian, where to start? 1) Making money - ha ha tell that to my wife who continues to meet the shortfall in my music activities. True, the school paid me for Alice's lessons but this involved either a 240 mile round trip for her and a 55 mile round trip for me or a 240 mile round trip for me. Once tax, NI and travelling expenses where taken off what was left could hardly be classed as making money. As for my other ventures I suggest you talk to the people involved who would put you right on my money making acumen. 2) Alice bought a keyed instrument which had been developed more than 100 years before she was born. Sher can hardly be blamed for being, possibly, the first piper ever to make such full use of its possibilities. 3) Alice does see the limitations as you describe and what I've been hesitant to mention is that she made her fiddle debut on that Wednesday concert! 4) She does already have a second woodwind instrument - the clarinet. She has just turned down a full scholarship to study this at the Royal Northern College of Music in favour of studying a more general music degree at York. This will hit her pocket to the tune of about -L-30,000 pounds but will enable her to spend a good amount of time piping and bring her geographically closer to WGB headquarters! Saying money is a driving force in any of our ventures is a bit cynical and plain wrong! Your views can be entertaining if there's a grain of truth in them but just silly if not. If you haven't got the facts to hand just ask - I'm more than happy to keep in touch. Anthony --- On Sun, 22/5/11, inky-adrian <inky-adr...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
From: inky-adrian <inky-adr...@ntlworld.com> Subject: [NSP] whatever To: "nps" <nsp@cs.dartmouth.edu> Date: Sunday, 22 May, 2011, 2:25 Hello all, to play so many notes with the thumb? What sort of instrument is this. First it was holes, fingered, then a Top A key? Then more key's,7. Then more key's,17. Whatever! We now have some-one playing 60-odd key's in 78 note's? Correct me if I'm wrong. This is very strange. The correct playing method will die and people, like you Anthony , will make money. I'm not influenced by money. I do promote the correct way of playing the Northumberland Small-pipes, as does Mr Ormston; for free! I hope the Northumberland small-pipes would die, as Tom Breckon's agreed with me, it should. your's Fingerless Adrian -- To get on or off this list see list information at [1]http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html -- References 1. http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html