Nice one Francis.
Happy daze.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Francis Wood [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2011 11:23 AM
>To: BIRCH Christopher (DGT)
>Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [NSP] Re: tune of the month
>
>Since I've never felt the urge to compete, perhaps I shouldn't
>really comment. But from what I've observed, the competition
>element in the NSP world is nothing like that in GHB piping.
>
>It seems to me that NSP competition is far more about
>participation in traditional events and receiving some
>personal endorsement of achievement, rather than defeating the
>opposition.
>
>I've no idea what melodeon culture and tradition is like, but
>evidently it cannot be ancient, as piping traditions are. If
>there are strong feelings about how things should be done
>(preferably expressed in a friendly way, but I won't lose
>sleep if they are not), I'm interested and glad to read them
>in this forum. This is essentially a pretty friendly place,
>though with the occasional angry outburst. Rather like any
>average marriage, I guess.
>
>Love n' Peace to all,
>
>Francis
>
>
>On 24 May 2011, at 09:33, <[email protected]>
><[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>> Perhaps one of the reasons the melodeon group is so
>friendly is that
>>> they don't have competition built into their culture the way pipers
>>> do. (For a diatribe on the subject see my editorial at
>>> [2]www.theotherpipers.org).
>>>
>>
>> Excellent article!
>> Csírz
>>
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