Hi Richards (both of you good folk!) I rather agree with Adrian that this kind of discussion is best held in a dedicated area.
Some people are passionately interested in this aspect of piping, whilst others will find it totally boring. The problem with Dartmouth is that it is very difficult to follow the thread of any discussion, since the topic being discussed may have moved far from the original subject. This is why it is often difficult to extract useful information from the archived posts. There is also no opportunity to host sound or image files Facebook seems to me to be a useful place to initiate this discussion so far. The problem there is that nothing is archived. Perhaps the best destination for this interesting discussion is a dedicated area of an already existing forum. Peacock's Parlour perhaps? Francis On 27 May 2011, at 16:38, Richard Shuttleworth wrote: > Dear Adrian, > > Why cannot all this very positive work be done on the current group that > Wayne Cripps set up many years ago for exactly this type of discussion? > > Richard > > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Inky- Adrian" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, May 27, 2011 9:54 AM > Subject: [NSP] Proper piping group > > >> The new facebook forum The Proper Northumberland small-pipe Players has >> now developed into an array of topics: Traditional reedmaking, >> smallpipe making , traditional developement and delving into the past >> to see how things might have worked and possibly revamp them for todays >> use. The forum is not for those who have a total dislike of of all >> things traditional, it is for those who have a positive view and a >> general agreement with each other on what the small-pipes are about. We >> are actively recording the tunes and how we think the pipes should be >> sound. Adrian. >> -- >> >> >> To get on or off this list see list information at >> http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html > >
